Tivo, Amazon unveil download deal
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Owners of Tivo's popular digital video recorders (DVR) will soon be able to download films and television shows for rental and purchase from Amazon.com, the two companies announced Wednesday.
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Amazon.com Inc. launched on Wednesday a service that lets users watch video purchased on the Internet and sent to a home television hooked up to a TiVo set-top box.
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TiVo Inc., maker of television recording technology, on Monday said it has started shipping "TiVoToGo," a service upgrade that allows some subscribers to view recorded programs on a computer or laptop.
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Home entertainment trendsetters Netflix Inc. and TiVo Inc. hope to link up on a service that will use high-speed Internet connections to pipe DVD-quality movies into the homes of their mutual subscribers.
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Amazon.com Inc. will let customers buy or rent movies and television shows and download them directly to some TiVo Inc. digital video recorders.
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Digital downloads direct to the living room US TiVo users will soon be able to download films direct to their TiVo box for viewing on their TV, using the Amazon Unbox service.â¦
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The two companies say they will jointly develop a set-top box to download movies over the internet. Netflix will arrange the movie licensing from Hollywood studios, and TiVo will take care of the product technology.
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Exactly one month after announcing a partnership to deliver Amazon's Unbox movie download service to TiVo users, the two companies have put the service live for TiVo customers with a broadband connection.
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Amazon, the biggest online retailer, starts a TV and film download service in the US called Unbox.
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Amazon.com Inc.  and TiVo Inc.   will begin testing on Wednesday a service that lets  users watch videos rented or bought over the Internet directly  on televisions, as part of a trend to link personal computers  and TVs.
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Online DVD renter Netflix Inc.  NFLX.O and television recorder maker TiVo Inc. TIVO.O are  close to a deal to allow Netflix subscribers to download movies  over the Internet to their TiVo devices, according to the  latest issue of Newsweek magazine.
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NEW YORK, March 7  - Amazon.com Inc. launched on Wednesday a service that lets users watch video purchased on the Internet and sent to a home television hooked up to a TiVo set-top box.
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Netflix, the online DVD rental company, and TiVo yesterday said they will work together to deliver movies digitally down the wires, presumably specifically to the latter&#39;s PVR equipment.
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Shares of TiVo Inc. and Netflix Inc. rose Tuesday after a published report said the two Bay Area firms were set to join forces to rent downloadable movies over the Internet.
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(InfoWorld) - Owners of Tivo's popular digital video recorders (DVR) will soon be able to download films and television shows for rental and purchase from Amazon.com, the two companies announced Wednesday. "Amazon Unbox on Tivo" is an extension of Amazon Unbox, the online retailer's digital download service, launched in September 2006. Neither company indicated a launch date for the service, except to indicate that it was now available for beta testing. Tivo owners must have a Series 2 or Series 3 DVR, an Amazon.com account, and a broadband connection to use the service. Tivo said about 1.5 million [m] of its machines are enabled to use it. Episodes of television programs will sell for $1.99 each, with films priced between $9.99 and $14.99. Films can be rented for $1.99. A record of all purchases will be kept both on the DVR and in the user's Amazon.com, account, the company said. Amazon said content would be available from film and television studios including CBS, Paramount Pictures, and Warner Bros. Entertainment.
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TiVo and EarthLink said Tuesday that they would begin offering a package deal where a consumer could purchase a stand-alone DVR unit and combine it with Internet or phone services through the ISP.
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NBC Universal has reached a deal  for online retailer Amazon.com Inc  to sell television  show downloads, it said on Tuesday, just days after the media  company pulled the plug on a contract with Apple Inc's  iTunes.