According to a report from the New York Post, online retailer giant Amazon is in talks with TiVo about allowing consumers to automatically transfer online movie purchases to their TiVo boxes, which would place the companies in direct competition with Apple’s recently announced iTV digital relay device.

The deal would help to bridge the gap between the home computer and the TV, and would complement Amazon’s recently-launched Unbox service — which offers TV shows, other videos, and full-length movies from all the major studios except Disney. Disney recently announced that it had sold 125,000 movie downloads worth $1 million in revenue through Apple’s iTunes Music Store, and said it expects to generate $50 million in added revenue during its first year of selling movies online.

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