Although the new Amazon Kindle may not, on first glance, have
much to do with IPTV, the technologies involved, and the kind of people
who get excited about that technology, aren’t too far apart.
What I really like about the new Amazon Kindle is not that it
may
boost my stock shares in the company (I would certainly welcome that)
but that they seem to have put together a winning platform that fits
the users and not the other way round.
What is the connection between the Kindle and ITV/IPTV? Read on…
Key Features
The
device integrates many different sources of reading materials (books,
newspapers, blogs, and your own documents) which can be downloaded on
the fly without additional charges over a cellular network and not
Wi-Fi. Its other killer feature is a screen that is said to resemble
the printed page without eyestrain.
Moreover, while this is not the first or last e-book reader, also see
iRex,
Amazon has the muscle, inventory and distribution network to make a go
of it.
The Amazon Kindle In Action
So what does this all mean for Internet Television/IPTV as
video
playback is not supported? It is not about this device, it is the story
of convergence and a device that people can use without having to
conform to it.
The Fallout For IPTV
Wide scale Broadband deployment is a result of speed and costs
factors that made the argument against it null for most people and it
is this growth, which has enabled ITV to accelerate at the pace it has.
When simple to use ITV/IPTV platforms are coupled with ease of
navigation to content, as is the case with the Kindle, we will be on
the road to systems people will embrace in larger numbers.
There is
always a tipping point or inflection point that occurs from geek
novelty to mass-market product; it is when this happens that the next
chapter in Internet Television will be written.
[Content in whole or part adapted from IPTVe and is licensed under Creative Commons, no additional derivative works may be copied from this article without prior permission from IPTVe and Web TV Wire]
