63 of 83 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Great Show! Terrible service!, September 30, 2007
This review is from: The Office Season 4 (Amazon Instant Video)
First off, let me say I am completely in love with The Office, and it is one of my favorite TV shows in recent history. The plot is engaging, the story entertaining and the characters very memorable. Even people who have not seen the first few seasons would not miss much if they start with the fourth season.
However, my review is more of the Unbox Amazon player and service than the TV show itself.
I write episode recaps and review of the office for a small fan website and even though I watch the show on TV when it first airs, I like to have a copy of it to rewatch again while I am writing. Last season I used the iTunes season pass to accomplish this, but since the Office is not available on iTunes this year, I decided to download the video from Amazon instead.
My first impressions were very good! It was very easy to plug in my current account information into their one-click shopping and buy the episode. However, I then had to download their proprietary software to play the video. Well, Amazon neglected to mention that the player would not work on a Macintosh computer, making my purchase completely worthless. Furthermore, they do not have any refund process in place, and even though I have not downloaded the video, and am incapable of downloading it, I have yet to receive a refund.
Luckily, my girlfriend also enjoys this show and does have a Windows computer and had downloaded it, so I went over to her place to watch it, and the video quality is terrible. It looks like it was recorded on a cheap VCR. Much much worse video quality than the episodes I downloaded last season off of iTunes. Despite that, the files are twice as large as the ones off of iTunes, to the tune of 1 GB per hour of video.
All in all i rate the video as a 10/10, but the service as 1/10.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
These episodes are edited, December 3, 2009
This review is from: The Office Season 4 (Amazon Instant Video)
I recently bought season 4 for $9.99 which is a pretty good deal. But tonight I caught "Launch Party" on WTBS and saw that there was more content on the broadcast than was included here on Amazon. Specifically, after Michael locks the pizza delivery kid in the conference room, there is a scene where Kevin and Oscar are researching the penalties for kidnapping on the internet. On the TBS broadcast, kevin had a few lines about kidnapping being the physical "asportation" of a person. These lines were not included on the Amazon version. Obviously this makes me wonder what else is missing on these episodes.
Overall, I love The Office; Season 4 is hilarious, Amazon's on demand video and Unbox work very well on my computer running Windows Vista with a DSL connection; and I was happy with the price I paid. But I can't give 5 stars if I'm not getting all the content.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Definitely a great start to a season, September 10, 2010
This review is from: The Office Season 4 (Amazon Instant Video)
This is one of my favorite episodes. There are a few surprise moments in here that just make me laugh out loud.
I don't want to spoil any laughs if you haven't seen it yet. But this is just a really good way to launch into a season and get everyone interested. Definitely worth the down-load price.
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