Amazon thinks of a "Kindle TV" to beat the time Apple - The Republic

According to Businessweek

it is a device to be used to see on your home TV media that the company has begun to deploy the service Prime. A product that might come again next autumn

JEFF Bezos, owner of the ecommerce giant by the name of Amazon, it never stands still. Do not rule out anything to push the boundaries of its business. The tablets and e-readers classical gave them already. A smartphone is given on arrival. Missing call a TV, just to take in the counter rival Apple seems on the verge of turning out an iTV later this year, and the network of PSP and Xbox. Well, rumors that collects the authoritative magazine Bloomberg Businessweek are heading in this direction: a device to be used to be able to see on your home TV multimedia content. That could also arrive next fall.

Strategy cloud The Kindle Fire HD Into These television should also be able to distribute television programs that Amazon has just started to produce and sell streaming on Amazon Prime, its online store multimedia. The new device should be developed in Cupertino, at Lab126, which work technologists from projects related to smart TV and smart box like Tivo and Vudu. The

“Kindle TV”, the name is obviously indicative, since Amazon has not confirmed or denied the rumors, it should most likely be available initially only in the U.S., as is the case for Amazon Prime.

The Seattle company is is also buying up exclusive rights to some highly successful TV series such as ‘Downtown Abbey’, with the obvious intent to challenge the streaming services like Netflix, Hulu and Goog Google. It is then a challenge across the board, not only to the Apple TV, the details of which follows the tv set from Amazon, according to the items mentioned, but also to the Sony PSP and Microsoft’s Xbox and their network of distribution video content.

Of course, the background is always the shadow of the famous Apple iTV, which could finally get this year, according to the latest, nth, rumors published in recent days by the New York Times. But it would be the same Tim Cook hope to do well, after three days ago, presenting financial data in decline for the first time in ten years, he assured that they are coming “fantastic new hardware”.