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FYI... no amount of spoofing will make Unbox work in Canada. The details are here.
They do Geo-IP sniffing or something to block such orders. Amazon will happily take your money (and, near as I can tell, not refund it) but you won't get your TV show or movie!
As with Microsoft (360), Apple (iTunes/AppleTV) and most other pay per use video providers on the Internet, TiVo and Amazon still treats us as second class citizens.
And they wonder why users flock to Bittorent in droves!
...Dale
P.S. Yes, I know this is all due to licensing restrictions. I wish one of these companies (and especially TiVo) would step up and obtain the Canadian distribution rights with these video offerings. I REALLY want to pay them money, month after month to access TV shows/movies online. I REALLY do.
I suspect TiVo won't be to be first out of the box (pun intended). They'll sell PVRs in Korea, Australia, England and now even China, but they won't sell or support them directly to Canadians.
P.P.S. TiVo please work with Amazon so as NOT to accept orders from Canadians (and charge our credit cards) if your system isn't going to fulfill the order. There should also be a way that we can get a refund for non-delivered content.
Update: ON July 10, Microsoft announced at E3 that they'll be making their iVOD to the 360 service available to Canadians and Europeans by the end of the year. Whupp, whupp, Hooray!!!
They do Geo-IP sniffing or something to block such orders. Amazon will happily take your money (and, near as I can tell, not refund it) but you won't get your TV show or movie!
As with Microsoft (360), Apple (iTunes/AppleTV) and most other pay per use video providers on the Internet, TiVo and Amazon still treats us as second class citizens.
And they wonder why users flock to Bittorent in droves!
...Dale
P.S. Yes, I know this is all due to licensing restrictions. I wish one of these companies (and especially TiVo) would step up and obtain the Canadian distribution rights with these video offerings. I REALLY want to pay them money, month after month to access TV shows/movies online. I REALLY do.
I suspect TiVo won't be to be first out of the box (pun intended). They'll sell PVRs in Korea, Australia, England and now even China, but they won't sell or support them directly to Canadians.
P.P.S. TiVo please work with Amazon so as NOT to accept orders from Canadians (and charge our credit cards) if your system isn't going to fulfill the order. There should also be a way that we can get a refund for non-delivered content.
Update: ON July 10, Microsoft announced at E3 that they'll be making their iVOD to the 360 service available to Canadians and Europeans by the end of the year. Whupp, whupp, Hooray!!!