Unbox content cannot be transferred at all – but purchases (not rentals) can be re-downloaded multiple times to different TiVos or PCs.

If anyone has this problem, check your info and see if you have 8.1. Then you have the same issue.

Cheers,

Dave

I don’t mind helping them figure out the kinks in this system, which in concept I love and want to use, I just wish they wouldn’t take my money while they I help figure things out.

As for what could make it not work – that’d be a nigh-infinitely long list. But the majority of users have standard home networks and won’t be concerned with most of them. For the most part, only the geeks who do things like block outbound network traffic, etc, have issues – and they should be smart enough to figure out what they need to do.

amazon says the dvr is linked, i can buy/rent the program.. it goes into the cue then disappears. if i redownload it the same happens, but it never ends up on my tivo list.

i’ve called tivo and amazon cust service and the only answer i get is that i have too many season passes– thats crazy i only have 10-15 season passes, tivo constantly deletes stuff as it records new stuff, can this really be the problem?
-grrrrr

Purchases don’t expire and you can re-download them if deleted.

I transferred a rented movie to my PC using TyTool, but the .ty file cant be opened with TyStudio. I normally can play .TY files directly from Windows Media Player or VLC, but the Amazon rented downloads wont play! I also tried streaming it (TivoWebPlus), but it doesnt play either.

Anyone try this with a purchased unbox title (i.e. not rented)?

I rebooted the Series 3 and it then pulled both Unbox purchases I made from Amazon in short order. Within approximately five minutes of rebooting, the blue “network download” LED activated on my Series 3 and it performed the downloads.

Prior to rebooting, the Recording History showed about four attempts within two minutes of each other, each failing with the “file not found” error indication.

Good luck and enjoy.

Seth

Saying: ‘This program was not dowloaded onto this DVR because it was not found’

Since then, clicked download to my TiVo a couple of times. It stays in the download buffer for a while and then disappears. There seems to be no extra traffic towards the TiVo.

I really wish they provided feedback on both sides of the fence what happens.

After downloading the TV show (NUMB3RS) to the PC, I checked for a TiVo logo on the show page so I could get a copy to my box. Although there wasn’t one, the drop-down box showed my boxes available to transfer the show. I guess some shows will have the TiVo logo compatibility eventually; I’m sure there’s some catching up and updating to do.

The DT S2 box I transferred the show to did not take long to initiate the transferring; it showed on queue after selecting my TiVo box on the Amazon site, but checking the Now Playing screen it seemed like it transferred as if I was selecting a TiVo-to-TiVo transfer. It was really fast. I guess something triggers a purchase instantaneously on the Amazon site to bring up the download right away. I’m comparing this to the online scheduling option; if one needs to program within an hour window, I’m curious if Amazon Unbox purchases are priority versus updated schedules.

The quality looks really good, on par to the downloaded content from TiVo, like the insider TiVo shows that get automatically downloaded to our boxes. I wasn’t able to view the entire episode as I was interested in reading the INFO on the downloaded program. More soon…

I’m very impressed so far with this Unbox program!