While I am excited that my TiVo is getting enhanced functinality, I truly hope that the iTV will not fall behind because of this...

This is one thing that could definitely give Amazon the upperhand.... If, of course, they can manage to get the service to actually work..

Would that mean that Tivo would get the Windows DRM or would Amazon convert it to a different DRM compatible with Tivo's system?

I've had tivo for years and still haven't installed their software to play videos on my PC. Its a pain in the ass. Trying to get unbox's crappy service to go ON to my tivo seems like even more of a nightmare.

Based on the DirecTV (series 1 and series 2 both) Tivo units that I have owned, I don't think that Tivo has particularly talented programmers. I doubt that the amazon link up will be popular.

I think this is will create real competition for apple. Will the unbox interface sucks, Tivo's user interface has often been praised. I'm sure Tivo will simplify the movie downloading process. And with the millions of current Tivo users, this will give Amazon a major advantage in the video download market. Considering that Tivo comes with DVR functionality and that new Tivo boxes even have HD DVR capabilities, iTV really needs to be spectacular since I'm sure it will not come with DVR capabilities.

I'm thinking that all that is need is web browser capabilities to offer a good enough product to do better than Tivo+Amazon.

Tivo hopefully gets bought out by Apple some day. I have 4 Tivos, two are series2 and the others are older than that.

Tivo was once a great product and I can't imagine living without it at times. However, their recent price 'restructuring' has doomed many longtime Tivo users into jumping ship.

Canceling the 'lifetime' update service and forcing future Tivo purchases to pay the monthly charges which in 3 years outweight the 'lifetime' service price. I've had Tivo since day one, going on 7 years soon, and am glad there are alternatives now.

It was bad enough the price of lifetime increased from its original $100 to $300 over the years but to cancel that option altogether was unforgivable.

Thank god for Moxi, ElGato and the others.

"the iPod maker's own movie service, which features full-length films from Walt Disney. Unlike Apple, Amazon has deals in place with every other movie studio except Disney. "

I cant help feeling Jobs is cutting his nose off to spite his face insisting on fixed pricing for all videos.

Every product range in free market driven countries, with the exception of iTunes, has a variety of prices depending on the "make/model". Does he really think the public are so dumb they cant understand different products having different prices?

thought 1: re tivo lifetime pricing: it's that exact issue that caused my parents to get the dvr box through their cable provider instead of upgrading to a hd-tivo box. they have had their tivo for years but said f'it b/c they would have to buy some 800 dollar box and then magically start paying for service again. stupid. so they are moving the tivo to the non HD tv in thier house on the off chance they need to record two things at once.

thought 2: the good thing about flat pricing is that it probably increases the basic number of sales. with sliding scale pricing it is easier for me to talk myself into waiting until the price drops or out of some other purchase because it is expensive as compared to other whatever (movies in this case). flat pricing like that is simple, easy and efficient. but scaled pricing has found its way to itunes also when purchasing the full CD.