Eyes wide shut 
It is amazing to read the amount of complaints the MAC community create. While unable to make the switch out of fear of the unknown, users continue to blame others for their woes. MAC users fail to see that they are victim of a tyrant, and rootless business entity. Apple has always refused to share what they create with others. Proprietary hardware, secret source code, even ITunes is a pain in terms of compatibility. MAC users have been impervious to all of these practices... instead APPLE followers like members of a freak cult keep 'crying' and 'complaining' about their self-created misery. Just switch platforms and stop trying to be cool and different. The truth as always is plain and simple.
Don't listen to the other reviews!
Many people are downvoting The Office because they have a Mac and didn't bother to read Amazon's information about the service. Had those "geniuses" bothered to read, they would know you can't put these videos on a Mac or an iPod. That's what makes them Mac users; they just pressed BUY and didn't realize that their Macs are garbage.
Enough Mac dissing, though; review for The Office. The Office is, frankly, the best show ever concieved by man. Steve Carell is amazing in the show. And the Unbox service? For a downloadable video service, nothing beats it. Sure, the image isn't DVD quality, but it isn't bad either, and for the price, you get MORE than you pay for.
It won't play on an iPod, but with all the DRM garbage you have to go through by owning one, those who have brains will have a Creative Zen or some other sort of player like that, and this will work for those people. Thumbs way up for the service and The Office, and thumbs way down for those Mac worshippers whose intelligence is what makes Apple their money in the first place.
Call the MAC user WAAAAmbulance
The Office is hands down one of the funniest shows on TV right now. I'd consider it the Mary Tyler Moore of this generation. And since I opted to buy an Archos multimedia player instead of an ipod, I have NO issues downloading any episodes and watching them to or from work.
Just a thought to all you MAC users - sure, you can be angry at Unbox for not being MAC-compatible. You can be angry at NBC for not making the show available on itunes. But while you're at it, you could also be angry at itunes for a: not trying to work out an agreement with NBC when they felt they were being short shrifted, and b: not working with amazon to make unbox work with MACs. I'm sure amazon would love an extra 10% more business on their download model (probably more than 10%, as so many MAC users seem to be tech/download-savvy), but we all know how apple likes to insulate itself from competition...heck, itunes could have had 10% more business if they had opened up itunes to non-ipods sooner (and even now, there's only some music available DRM-free, no video content. Amazon saw an opening, and now they have video downloads (that, again, they'd probably LOVE to offer to MAC users if apple would open up the process a bit) and a wider selection of DRM-free 256K music at better prices. I'm just saying you can spread the blame around, is all...
BTW, any Mac owners with Tivo out there, consider this: Archos' optional DVR station can be hooked up to a TiVo (any DVR really) and you can record content to your player that way. So even if you forgot to TIvo a particular show, if it's available to download to a Tivo via unbox, you can record copies of shows or movies or whatever else you opt to watch. Unbox and Archos and Tivo, putting the "Ah!" in "Options" (whereas I put bad half-baked homonyms in reader reviews).
An amazing show with great humor
I absolutely love "The office". The characters are great fun and really crack me up. After watching one episode I couldn't resist and ended up watching all the episodesThe Office - Season One in a week. Jenna Fischer as the receptionist does a great job and so does the sociopathic Rainn Wilson. It is extremely funny and something that I could totally relate to. Steve Carrel also does a great job as an egomaniacal boss.
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night, out
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