It certainly didn’t take NBC very long to get over its break-up with Apple’s iTunes. Only a few days after NBC announced that they intended to pull their video content from iTunes, and after a well publicized dispute, NBC has now announced a new partner.

Today NBC Universal and Amazon announced that NBC’s video content will now be available on Amazon’s Unbox media download service. Amazon and NBC are offering a number of incentives hype up the launch of the new content, too. The pilots of the new series of Bionic Woman and Chuck are available for free, even before the first episodes air. Other shows will normally be available for download the day after they air and the companies are even offering 30% off for buying seasons in advance.

Askville is a question and answer website from Amazon that uses a system of Experience Points, Levels, and Quest coins to reward contributors. Askville is similar to Yahoo! Answers or the now defunct Google Answers in that you ask questions of a community of experts.

Questions submitted to the Askville community are open for 7 days. Depending on the interest your question drums up and/or the difficulty of the question you will get up to 5 answers back from the Askville community during those 7 days.

You can monitor new questions and view featured questions and most active discussions. At the time I looked at the site the top featured question was “Why do people drink alcohol for the taste?” Good question, I wasn’t aware that they did drink it for the taste.

To reward contributors, Askville …

TiVo and Amazon.com have announced a new service that will allow TiVo Subscribers to watch Movies and TV Shows downloaded from Amazon Unbox on Their TVs.

With “Amazon Unbox on TiVo”, subscribers will have the ability to rent and purchase movies and television shows. Television shows will cost $1.99 per episode and most movies will range between $9.99 and $14.99 for purchase with movie rentals starting at $1.99. The current list of supported major studios includes CBS, Fox Entertainment Group, Lionsgate, Paramount Pictures, Universal Studios Home Entertainment and Warner Bros.

Once live, subscribers will be able to activate the service on Amazon.com to establish a link between their TiVo Series2 or Series3 box. Once the service has been activated, eligible movies and television shows can be downloaded directly to the TiVo box. Downloaded content will automatically appear in the “Now Playing” list …

2006 was a banner year for Amazon.com. In an announcement released today, Amazon.com said 2006, its 12th season, was the most successful holiday season yet.

December 11th marked the busiest day of the season on which Amazon customer orders exceeded 4 million items and Amazon’s worldwide fulfillment network shipped over 3.4 million units to over 200 countries. Amazon.com sustained its reputation for reliability by shipping more than 99 percent of orders in time to meet holiday deadlines worldwide.

Some other interesting Amazon.com 2006 Holiday Facts include:

Amazon sold enough orange flavored Airborne health supplements to supply every passenger on 192 Boeing 747s.
Enough coffee pods were sold to make coffee for everyone in Austin, Texas.
Amazon’s Electronics store sold its most expensive MP3 player to date in 2006, the $19,999 Trekstor i.Beat Organix Gold 1GB MP3 player.
The last Prime order placed on December 22nd in time for Christmas delivery …

CustomFlix has announced that it is supporting Amazon Unbox, Amazon.com’s video download service, by adding video downloads to its current DVD and CD on Demand services. CustomFlix, a subsidiary of Amazon.com, is a manufacture-on-demand service for independent filmmakers and other DVD content owners.

Independent filmmakers and other digital media owners will be able to distribute their titles in more formats and expose them to a broader audience consisting of tens of millions of Amazon.com customers. CustomFlix members can add a digital download option to DVD titles available for sale on Amazon.com at no extra cost.

Amazon is a popular destination for movie enthusiasts and the CustomFlix catalog will certainly give Amazon customers a welcome variety of offerings. Unbox customers will start seeing the CustomFlix content early next year.

Amazon.com today announced the opening of its new Automotive Parts and Accessories Store which features over 1 million new, used and remanufactured parts from leading parts and accessories manufacturers such as: Actron, Fram, Holley, Hurst, K&N Engineering, Lund, Meguiar’s, Raybestos and Schumacher. The Store will also list parts from more than 250 independent auto, truck and motorcycle parts retailers.

“We’re providing a broad selection of products for auto enthusiasts, who are passionate about the appearance and performance of their cars, but also making the Automotive Store convenient for the everyday motorist who is looking for basic car care and maintenance items,” said Steve Frazier, vice president, Automotive at Amazon.com.

The new store features an innovative Parts Finder that allows users to enter the make, model, and year of their car. The system will leverage Amazon’s unique technology platform to find the auto part data from over …

Amazon launched its movie and TV download service earlier this month. The new service is called Amazon Unbox and will allow users to discover thousands of movies and TV shows in the Amazon Unbox video store.

The system works by installing the Amazon Unbox video player on your PC. Once the player is installed you can download the titles of your choice and watch the videos on your PC, portable device, or TV (through an s-video connection).

One hour of programming is roughly equal to 1GB of disk space. The common file sizes include: 30-minute TV episode=600MB, 1-hour TV episode=1.2GB, 2-hour movie=2.4GB. The Amazon Unbox player does allow you to watch the video while it is still downloading.

The price for downloading a movie is roughly the same as buying the DVD directly from Amazon. Movies can …