As someone who has used Amazon Unbox, we want to let you know about important upcoming changes to the application.
Amazon Unbox will no longer be available after March 29, 2015. This means you won't be able to use Unbox to view or download videos after this date. You can however continue to watch the movies and TV episodes you've purchased and previously downloaded on your PC after this date by following the steps below.
Important: The following two-step process will give you access to your purchased and downloaded videos through Windows Media Player, a standard media player included with most PCs. If you need to download or re-install Windows Media Player please go to Microsoft Support (http://windows.micro...ws-media-player).
1. Update the Amazon Unbox application to the latest version. This version includes a one-time license conversion that will make your videos available within Windows Media Player. Open the Unbox application and there will be an "Upgrade" notification you can use to do this. You can also click the "Settings" option in the Unbox menu and select "Check for Amazon Unbox Upgrades."
2. Use Unbox to download all purchased videos you wish to view offline on your PC by March 29, 2015.
Once you've completed these two steps, your downloaded videos will be available through Windows Media Player on your PC, and you can uninstall Amazon Unbox without losing access to them. If you don't download your purchased videos onto your PC and install the latest version of Unbox by this date, you won't be able to watch your purchased videos offline on your PC.
As always, you can also stream your purchased movies and TV episodes on your PC through your web browser as well as on hundreds of compatible devices, including Smart TV's, game consoles, iOS, Android, and Fire OS devices.
For more information about ways to watch, go to:
https://www.amazon.com/watchnow
Sincerely,
Customer Service Amazon.com
1. What happens if you have to reprogram your computer and cannot get media player to play any of the movies you downloaded?
2. The fix they mentioned will only work until March 29th, and then only for Windows Media Player.
3. Why don't they just provide a way of just removing the DRM and letting the user decide what player to play the movies with?
I've tried using many DRM removal software and while I have a "decent" copy of the movies without DRM, I want to get a better quality product. If anyone knows of a good program to remove the Unbox DRM I'm all ears.
Thank you for posting this. We have Unbox. We use it when we are up at our camp. Will have to look into this.
What Amazon is doing is nonsense.
If you’re looking for a good way to record stuff you own online, check out www.playlater.tv . I use it all of the time ... it works great. You can record stuff from sources like Netflix and Amazon DRM free (just to name a few ... it supports numerous websites). It’s legal too. Your videos are recorded in MP4 format.
Only drawback is that it adds a 3 second watermark at the beginning and end of the file indicating who recorded it based on your licensing information.
It’s well maintained software too ... rarely have I run into problems when various websites change something.