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 - This is a ShameApple, with iTunes, revolutionized downloading and digital subscriptions to TV. NBC blew it when they severed their ties with iTunes and the consumer suffers. Amazon seems to be perpetuating the pain by issuing their service for PC users only. I would wager that a huge percentage of people likely to pay for the downloads and the convenience are looking for it on a Mac. Amazon should seriously reconsider which platforms they are catering to. Rating: - UNBOX SUCKS!The Unbox sucks. I will NEVER try to use it again and I will NEVER downnload a video from it. I was very eager to purchase and download season four of The Office. You would not allow me to purchase it without registering for some stupid Pepsi points which I did not want to do. There was no other way that I could find to purchase the product. I am going to write NBC and tell them that they should sell their product through i-tunes, which is much more user friendly and delivers quality product without having to coerce its customers into providing personal information to Pepsi. I am also a regular book, DVD, and CD customer, but I am so turned off by this experience that I am going to purchase my products from other sources from now on. I should charge you for my wasted time! Tell Pepsi that they lost you a loyal customer! Rating:  - Best Comedy on TelevisionThe only negative I have to say about "The Office" is that it hasn't been on in so long (!!!) due to the writer's strike...I am going through withdrawal! The Office is one of the best off-beat (which makes it ultimately the best) comedies ever. If you need a laugh track & straight-forward silliness to laugh, then The Office is not for you. Much of my laughter is internal, as I sit watching with a constant smile on my face for almost 30 minutes straight. I love thinking about the story lines, because there is so much going on in just 1 segment that I know I often don't catch it all the first go-round. Yes, I do own Season 1 and 2, and just finally ordered the 3rd. I know this review might be lame, but I LOVE the Office, and please writer's, producers: Cut a Deal!! Rating: - Wonderful Show & Service. Stupid Reviewers!I promised myself that I would never become one of those people who use these reviews as an opportunity to critique the Unbox service itself rather than the actual show we're supposed to be reviewing. But I read the first reviewer's comments for this title about an hour ago, and it so annoyed me that I had to take a moment to respond. The reviewer offers two primary complaints about the Unbox service: that it doesn't warn users about the need for a Windows-based PC and that the video quality is poor. Neither of these complaints falls into the category of misguided opinions. Rather, both claims are objectively false in every possible way, on every imaginable level. Amazon could not be more up front about the system requirements necessary to download and watch Unbox videos. I don't follow Macintosh news, so I'm not sure -- but I think Unbox either does or will soon offer Macintosh compatibility. But the first time I used Unbox it was a Windows-only service, and I remember extensive verbiage explaining exactly what kind of equipment was required. Just because one customer is too lazy to read instructions doesn't mean a service is bad. Sometimes it's the customer who is bad! The claim about video quality is even more absurd, since the actual resolution of Unbox downloads are some of the highest on the entire internet. If you have old or semi-compatible codecs installed, who knows what the video would look like! Anyone who isn't too dumb to configure their computer properly will confirm that Unbox downloads look and sound better than most standard-definition cable television broadcasts. In any case, that was my little rant against self-righteous inaccuracies purported as valid opinions. The Office itself is a wonderful show, but I will have to come back to that one in a later review! Rating: - The Office will always get five stars from me!The 1 star is for the Amazon Unbox service! It's slow... very very slow! My download time was around 5 hours for a forty minute show! This is completely unacceptable. I will find another means of downloading the episodes, thank you!
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