Unbox from Amzn sounds like a big mistake.....

[samintx]

[Panopticon]

[quote Fortune:]
Two thumbs down for Unbox
Amazon's new movie service is a horror show, says Fortune's Peter Lewis.
Less cluttered link: http://cnnmoney.printthis.clickability.c...action=cpt&title=Review%3A+Two+thumbs+down+for+Unbox+-+Sep.+19%2C+2006&expire=-1&urlID=19537154&fb=Y&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmoney.cnn.com%2F2006%2F09%2F18%2Ftechnology%2Flewis_unbox.fortune%2Findex.htm%3Fsource%3Dyahoo_quote&partnerID=2200

[dotman]

that was beautiful.

dot.

[Carm]

By the way, while I could download the James Dean classic "Rebel Without a Cause" from Unbox for $23.99, Amazon also offers to sell it to me as a special 2-volume DVD set, which includes extra documentaries and features, for $19.99.

Amazon encourages the user to make a DVD backup of all purchased movies. However, the backup DVD will play back only through the Unbox client, and not on a DVD player or other device.

My first attempt to get the Unbox system to work on my computer (a Sony Vaio Windows XP Media Center Edition PC) was thwarted when I refused to allow Microsoft to load a program that reports unspecified information - presumably information about my computer - back to the mothership. On the second installation attempt I relented and, within minutes, was ready to buy my first movie.