Amazon Unbox, TiVo and the Big Bang Theory

So, I’m not impressed by Amazon Unbox via TiVo. For starters, the shows aren’t captioned, even though TiVo’s in-house ads and previews always are.

This is an issue because the pilot episodes of Journeyman and Bionic Woman (i.e. the free preview pilots I actually wanted to see) were downloaded sans sound. If I’d paid the insane download rental fee for these, instead of getting a free preview, I would be pretty furious.

It’s a strange omission for TiVo — the captions, not the sound, which is obviously a mistake — since the preview of The Big Bang Theory, a sitcom by the creator of Two and a Half Men that didn’t require any special downloading at all, does have captions. Unfortunately, it also sucks, proving that Two and a Half Men isn’t a fluke.

Ah, well. I’ll just TiVo Bionic Woman and Journeyman like a normal person in a week or two.

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