Amazon and TiVo Team, Offer Digital Films, Shows

By Monica Soto Ouchi, Seattle Times

It’s suddenly getting cozy in the living room.

Amazon.com said this week that it would soon offer TiVo subscribers the ability to play movies and television shows either rented or purchased on its site a day after Wal-Mart muscled its way into the movie-download business.

Amazon’s service “Amazon Unbox on TiVo” will offer thousands of TV shows and movies from CBS, Fox Entertainment Group, Lions Gate, Paramount Pictures, Universal Studios and Warner Bros to the more than 1.5 million TiVo subscribers with high-speed Internet connections.

Amazon is testing the service with a select group of TiVo subscribers. The TiVo.com site asked customers to sign up for notification of the service.

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