Friday, April 26, 2013

TV Kindle: Amazon's springboard to the digital living room? - ITespresso.fr

strengthen its involvement in the digital living room, consider Amazon to launch this fall, a set-top box thinking as a gateway to a range of video on demand.

Amazon consider joining, by the fall, the battle for control of the digital living room, with a set- top box that the consensus already called Kindle TV .

a connected TV market booming, the e-commerce pioneer strengthen its position with this glimpsed as a gateway to its video on demand.

Bloomberg, based on eyewitness accounts of three “close the file” sources, evokes an initial foray into the U.S. market.

Europe is not excluded forecasts and for good reason: Amazon plans to launch it during the year, a VoD platform with the help of its subsidiary Lovefilm, already at year in Germany and the United Kingdom.

comes to propose eventual game rentals and streaming music, more movies and series. Services whose attractiveness and visibility would be enhanced by a dedicated multimedia box.

Kindle hypothetical TV does not seem to induce hours of direct competition vis-à-vis cable operators, broadcast live programs are not likely to be on the agenda.

confrontation is more evident with the Apple TV Google TV and consoles connected ( Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft 360) … even this mysterious device Intel prepare backstage.

product development would expire in one of Amazon subsidiaries: Lab126, based in Cupertino and already involved in Kindle e-readers, with some teams passed by Apple, Cisco or TiVo engineers

Alongside these initiatives on the hardware issue, negotiations also cover the content, with exclusive deals to broadcast certain programs.

These rumors have not generated the excitement on Wall Street. This Wednesday the close of business, the market price Amazon was displayed a slight decrease of 0.04%, at $ 268.78.

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