Amazon DELETES the movie from your computer after the time limit has expired!!!!! Are they f**king crazy??? That means there a constant communication link between Amazon and my machine. Windoze is already broken without anything touching it. This is gonna cause h***! No thanks. Boycott to eveything Amazon! Spyware is NOT the way to go!!

it means no such thing. amazon and their player don't need an internet connection to determine 24 hour time lapse.

Because they know that some idiot will keep resetting the date on their PCs just to mess with the system. An internet connection will HAVE to be made.

since they don't appear to offer a mac-based player... end of story

Amazon sold their soul to the movie studio devils to get their rights. Now Amazon has a complete garbage of a deal. I'll be d*mnned if I'll pay $15 for a movie I can only watch on 2 computers. 24-hour rental?! What is this, 1983?!?!

Jobs is right, both music and movie studios are so filthy greedy that they can't see common sense. THIS IS WHY PEOPLE PIRATE!!! I guess Wal-Mart gets to remain the big cat of movie sales...Lord knows, I'll be buying my $14 DVDs there, not Amazon!!!

(Not to mention as someone stated, we Mac users were shafted again. And they have the gall to call Apple a closed-system!)

Wal-Mart isnt much better.

I kinda just think the idea of getting my DVD's in the mail is pretty cool. I put it in my cheapie DVD player, and it's hooked up to my TV.

Wow. Watching a download on my monitor sitting at the desk, vs. kicking my feet up on the couch. HMMMM. No brainer, folks . . . where's the Love™ in movie downloading, I wonder?

Personally, I feel that movie downloading is a bunch of hype . . . maybe, when download speeds are instantaneous, like in 5 or 10 years. C'mon, really . . . a $15 movie download . . . I guess I'm just not a collector, like some folks. Like to rent and return; less c*** piling up in my house (or hard drive). The only way I'd see downloads taking off, is if:

a) A device can beam it to your TV (ie, Airport Express type device)

b) You could actually get Hollywood to allow you to download at the same time it's fresh in the theaters (yeah, right)

c) Keep the price like that of a rental: $4.99 or less, good for a week . . . or, like unlimited (mailbox service) . . . about 18 bucks a month . . . just to say, tho' it'd have to have a) in place for all the world's moviegoing couch potatioes

It looks like an alpha program that was released in a very big hurry to try and trumph Apple. Now it has back fired on Amazon as the service should be boxed back up and sent back. I have been reading of many stories that customers can't even play the videos and then the video software says there time is up and must pay again for the video that didn't play to begin with. That my friends is just poor crappy software that should have never been released period! Don't waste your money on this. Wait for Apple's announcement and see how it's done right.

Well according to one story you need an internet connection to even uninstall Amazon's player so I call that spyware! The minute you go online you are being watched and who knows what else it's doing.

resetting your system clock hasn't worked for ages on any sufficiently sophisticated application. try it with photoshop or dreamweaver — won't work. it's pretty simple actually.

regardless it does seem that the application does indeed phone home a great deal.