Free NBC Fall Previews
You can see Journeyman, Chuck, Life and Bionic Woman for Free with Amazon UnBox. This means you can download them straight to your TiVo and watch them on the big screen (or you can download them to a PC, but I've never done that) for a limited time. I haven't seen Life yet, but I've seen the other three: Chuck is awesome, Journeyman is excellent, Bionic Woman is luke-warm but I'll give it a chance (and you can see for yourself!).
On a side note, this ties to NBC cutting ties or getting pissed at the iTunes music store (I can't remember why) and are now partnering with Amazon. I have no idea how long this offer might last or if the link will last but this is a permanent (I think) link to Amazon Unbox.
Amazon Unbox is an interesting service, more so for your TiVo than your PC (IMHO). You can rent high-quality movies for about $3.99 each, but each weekend they offer a half-dozen 99 cent ones (some are new and some are old), so keep your eyes open for those. Rentals are on your machine for 30 days but once you start to watch you only have 24 hours to finish (or re-watch it). Personally, I think 24 hours is too short, it needs to be about 36 hours; if I start to watch a movie Sunday afternoon at 4 and don't finish it, I'm probably not going to be home from work in time the next day to finish it. I really think they need to extend the 24 hours (which is starting to be an industry standard) to about 36 hours (48?) or figure out some way to get another $1 out of me so that I can keep it for another day). It's just more consumer friendly, it's not like I've got the media and they need it to rent to another person.
So back to the free previews. It's a very cool marketing idea. But here's my question - why aren't there any ads?!? They could be making money off of this (or at least advertising their fall line-up). They need to explore this so that they can explore this delivery medium and realize that free to the consumer is good. That's the whole model of television, free with commercials. If they gave it away free they could probably even rig it to force you to watch the commercials (or just the first few seconds) so they know they are getting their money's worth. But as always, I hope they figure out a way to target the commercials to me (I don't need tampons or Cialis, I need Apple products and movie previews). Just a thought...
Read or leave comments (or trackbacks/pings) Posted by Gary on Monday at 8:58 PM on September 10, 2007.
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Thanks for the 3 comments/trackbacks from: Dave Goodman: Gary Said...: Gary LaPointe
 Have you read the terms of service for unbox? I hated them so much I cancelled my Amazon account. They have the right to install software on your system, send information back to them, and delete files on your system at will. It's like that stupid Google system where they can disable your ability to watch a movie even after you've paid for it. gah! Oh yeah... and... Happy Birthday! :) |
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Big Bang Theory: The first episode of Big Bang Theory is now available for free download from Amazon Unbox. You can put it on your TiVo(!) or on your PC. Supposedly there are other CBS show for free but I can't find them. This is an awesome show. It's about a few geeks... |
 Looks like they aren't free any more.... |
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