If you’re living in the US and have a TiVo you might be interested in this video service from Amazon called Amazon unbox. They are offering movie downloads from their site for $3.99 and for that amount you get 24 hours to watch the movie once you have pressed play.

The guys over at Gizmodo have tried it out and they aren’t too impressed of the video quality: “It’s pretty average-grade standard definition television, letterboxed but not taking up the full screen on our 1080p test equipment. We saw plenty of compression artifacts, and the focus seemed rather soft, but the colors were reasonably saturated and the result was a watchable movie with decent sound.”

Hands-On: Amazon Unbox On TiVo, Working Together for Movie Downloading Hijinks [gizmodo.com]