Newsgroup: it.fan.startrek
Titolo: Non provate Amazon Unbox

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Lo scrive sul proprio blog Tom Merritt, del sito C/Net, che racconta la sua
esperienza con il nuovo servizio di download a pagamento di film,
inaugurato ieri da Amazon.
Le peripezie sono iniziate dopo che il download era stato completato, e il
giornalista ha provato a vedere l'episodio scaricato: una puntata del
telefilm "Star Trek". Per vedere come è andata a finire basta proseguire la
lettura (in inglese), del blog.
http://reviews.cnet.com/4532-10921_7-0.html?tag=blog&author=6247080
I do not recommend you try Amazon Unbox, and here's why. Yesterday evening
I decided to give the video download service a try, especially since it
gives you a free $1.99 video. A nice touch, I thought. I chose a Star Trek
episode called "The World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky," because
it's one of my favorites.
After the normal Amazon checkout rigmarole, I was prompted to download a
proprietary video player from Amazon. It's the only way to complete the
download. I wasn't too happy about this. It does download a WMV to a
folder, so I figured, what the heck. At least I knew where the file was if
I wanted to play it in another player.
Even after it downloaded fully, it wouldn't play. I tried several times in
both the Amazon player and the regular Windows Media Player, to no avail.
After less than two minutes, though, I found that if I dragged the progress
indicator in the Amazon player a little, it would start playing. Maybe a
bug on my part, who knows? Video quality was fine, especially for an old TV
show. I enjoyed it.
I left work after that and rebooted my laptop at home. That's when the real
trouble began. I noticed that the Amazon player had launched itself.
Annoying. I looked in the program for a preference to stop it from
launching itself, and there was none. Typical. So I went to msconfig and
unchecked Amazon Unbox so that it would definitely not launch itself at
start-up. When I rebooted, it was no longer there. However, my firewall
warned me that a Windows service (ADVWindowsClientService.exe) was trying
to connect to the Net. I clicked More Info in the firewall alert and found
it was Amazon Unbox. Downright offensive. It still was launching a
Net-connection process that even msconfig apparently couldn't stop. Forget
it. That's not the behavior of good software. I went to uninstall it.
After the Install Shield launched and I chose uninstall, I got a login
screen for my Amazon account. I just wanted to uninstall it. I shouldn't
have to log in to my account to do that. So I canceled the login, and the
uninstall failed. I tried that three times, and it failed each time.
Finally I gave up and logged in and the uninstall finished.
So, in summary, to be allowed the privilege of purchasing a video that I
can't burn to DVD and can't watch on my iPod, I have to allow a program to
hijack my start-up and force me to login to uninstall it? No way. Sorry,
Amazon. I love a lot of what you do, but I will absolutely not recommend
this service. Try again. For more details and a rating of Amazon Unbox,
check back for James Kim's full review. Update: I received an email from
Sheila at DV guru saying that she hadn't had to log in to Amazon to
uninstall. On a hunch, I reinstalled Unbox and this time allowed
ADVWindowsClientService.exe to access the Internet when prompted by my
firewall. This time when I uninstalled, I was not prompted to login. So
ADVWindowsClientService.exe is connecting to the Net without your
knowledge, even when uninstalling.
-- 
Jolan Tru, Filippo "Hytok" Simone
L'oracolo sampdoriano di Sunnydale
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 knowledge, even when uninstalling.
il mulo,il mulo,il mulo.
finche' i "sciuri" delle major non capiscono
l'antifona,cavalcate il mulo ^^
mrt^^

Amazon Unbox is really a bad software. It offers virtually no control
to the user. There are hardly any configurations user can make and the
user has no control over most of the things. Yesterday I rented a movie
and installed Unbox player. The player shows the movie in the media
library but the status is stuck at 0.0% of 0 KB/sec for the last 24
hours. My internet connection is working fine and also I have restarted
the player and the computer several times but to no avail. I agree with
Marat, the software really hijacks your system. I am a big fan of
Amazon but this is a complete disappointment. I didn't expect this from
Amazon. I think they have been 'Microsftized'.
Puneet
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