I never thought Amazon would let me down like this. I am a huge Amazon customer. My purchases go all the way back to the beginning of Amazon. I have spent thousands of dollars on Amazon. I am also a huge Mac fan and user. Amazon is preventing me from using my iTunes, my computer, my Apple TV and my iPod for playback of The Office Season 4. Unbox is so antiquated compared to the elegant method I was allowed to use for the other three seasons. Please reconsider and get together with NBC, will you?
No Mac support equals poor customer service. iTunes has been successful because of the seamless transaction and viewing process. Until this functionality is fixed for Unbox Video Downloads, business will suffer. I look forward to Amazon raising this service to the service levels and standards of other Amazon product and services.
I have been a fan of the office since before it’s pilot episode. It is the only TV show that I’ve regularly dedicated time to watch.
For the last three seasons I’ve downloaded all episodes through iTunes so that while traveling I could watch them on my ipod. This was a great relationship for me making things very convenient.
Now that Amazon Unbox has rights to the office and itunes does not have access to season 4 I’ve had to learn how to make things convenient again…. but to no avail.
Downloads are first much larger with the .wmv format then the .w4v provided by iTunes. For the sake of comparison an hour with .w4v is approximately 500 megs while the .wmv format is approximately 900 megs. Second the quality appears far worse in .wmv than it is in the .w4v format. Third, iTunes will only put .w4v videos onto my ipod which means I have to go through the added step of converting my Amazon Unbox videos from .wmv to .w4v before watching them on my ipod.
My suggestion to increase the Amazon Unbox fan base is to make this download system slightly more compatible with iTunes. The more convenient you make this the more likely it is that I will use Unbox. If nothing changes then I will just buy the season on DVD.
It took all day to download a 40 min TV spot. i have it downloaded and now it has an error dose not play no. So i don’t know about the show but the download stinks.
I recently bought season 4 for $9.99 which is a pretty good deal. But tonight I caught “Launch Party” on WTBS and saw that there was more content on the broadcast than was included here on Amazon. Specifically, after Michael locks the pizza delivery kid in the conference room, there is a scene where Kevin and Oscar are researching the penalties for kidnapping on the internet. On the TBS broadcast, kevin had a few lines about kidnapping being the physical “asportation” of a person. These lines were not included on the Amazon version. Obviously this makes me wonder what else is missing on these episodes.
Overall, I love The Office; Season 4 is hilarious, Amazon’s on demand video and Unbox work very well on my computer running Windows Vista with a DSL connection; and I was happy with the price I paid. But I can’t give 5 stars if I’m not getting all the content.
I never thought Amazon would let me down like this. I am a huge Amazon customer. My purchases go all the way back to the beginning of Amazon. I have spent thousands of dollars on Amazon. I am also a huge Mac fan and user. Amazon is preventing me from using my iTunes, my computer, my Apple TV and my iPod for playback of The Office Season 4. Unbox is so antiquated compared to the elegant method I was allowed to use for the other three seasons. Please reconsider and get together with NBC, will you?
No Mac support equals poor customer service. iTunes has been successful because of the seamless transaction and viewing process. Until this functionality is fixed for Unbox Video Downloads, business will suffer. I look forward to Amazon raising this service to the service levels and standards of other Amazon product and services.
Kennedy
I have been a fan of the office since before it’s pilot episode. It is the only TV show that I’ve regularly dedicated time to watch.
For the last three seasons I’ve downloaded all episodes through iTunes so that while traveling I could watch them on my ipod. This was a great relationship for me making things very convenient.
Now that Amazon Unbox has rights to the office and itunes does not have access to season 4 I’ve had to learn how to make things convenient again…. but to no avail.
Downloads are first much larger with the .wmv format then the .w4v provided by iTunes. For the sake of comparison an hour with .w4v is approximately 500 megs while the .wmv format is approximately 900 megs. Second the quality appears far worse in .wmv than it is in the .w4v format. Third, iTunes will only put .w4v videos onto my ipod which means I have to go through the added step of converting my Amazon Unbox videos from .wmv to .w4v before watching them on my ipod.
My suggestion to increase the Amazon Unbox fan base is to make this download system slightly more compatible with iTunes. The more convenient you make this the more likely it is that I will use Unbox. If nothing changes then I will just buy the season on DVD.
It took all day to download a 40 min TV spot. i have it downloaded and now it has an error dose not play no. So i don’t know about the show but the download stinks.
I recently bought season 4 for $9.99 which is a pretty good deal. But tonight I caught “Launch Party” on WTBS and saw that there was more content on the broadcast than was included here on Amazon. Specifically, after Michael locks the pizza delivery kid in the conference room, there is a scene where Kevin and Oscar are researching the penalties for kidnapping on the internet. On the TBS broadcast, kevin had a few lines about kidnapping being the physical “asportation” of a person. These lines were not included on the Amazon version. Obviously this makes me wonder what else is missing on these episodes.
Overall, I love The Office; Season 4 is hilarious, Amazon’s on demand video and Unbox work very well on my computer running Windows Vista with a DSL connection; and I was happy with the price I paid. But I can’t give 5 stars if I’m not getting all the content.