So last night I decided to try Amazon Unbox Movie downloads. I read about it over at Fransen’s blog, where is using the Tivo feature. I tried “A Scanner Darkly“.
What is cool is, I use my Xbox 360 as a Media Center Extender (I’m running Vista Ultimate). The Unbox video (even though DRM’d) played through the extender. Pretty sweet, exactly what I wanted. The one downer is it won’t play until fully downloaded, whereas if you use the unbox client on the pc, you can start playing it like 2 minutes after it starts downloading. They have a web load feature where you can order a movie or TV show from a remote pc and your PC at home will start downloading it, so it can be ready when you get home. That will probably be the next thing I try.
Still looking for the ultimate combination where I dont have to buy cable service, but still can get all the media I want and watch it on my TV. The quest continues, but for sure Amazon Unbox is another tool added to the belt.
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Lis and I watched a Scanner Darkly, and both of us thought it was the worst movie we’ve seen in a while. As Lis put it, “it’s like watching a bunch of your friends while you’re the only one not stoned in the room. For two hours.”
What did you think of the movie?
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Well, I kind of thought the same thing. It seemed kinda cool how they did the graphics/animation stuff though. The plot and story probably could have used some work 🙂
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I like Amazon Unbox a lot. It is nice that hey have added the option to put it strait on my TiVo.
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