Thursday, April 25, 2013

TV Amazon Kindle developed a set-top box - Golem.de

Amazon has put together a team of Topentwicklern working on a set-top box for streaming video. The device is probably still appear 2013.

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Amazon developed a set-top box for streaming video that will appear even 2013. The report by the Wall Street Journal and the Bloomberg news agency informed sources. Amazon offers its Prime customers already streaming to offer for the Kindle.

The release date and price have not been determined, according to the sources, the Wall Street Journal. A great set-top box from Roku costs $ 50, other devices for around $ 100 in stores.

“Our approach is to work hard in order to be effective. Appliances We sell almost at cost and are able to offer a lot of sophisticated hardware at a very low price” , said company founder and CEO Jeff Bezos in October 2012. “And our approach is working.”

According to Amazon

suppliers developed a smartphone that could be released this year.

Kindle from Amazon’s Lab126 TV

Amazon wants to win for his video-on-demand service as more users. The company is owner of the online movie rental company LoveFilm. In December 2010, the online lender LOVEFiLM launched in Germany with video-on-demand. On the Playstation 3 is the offer in June 2011. From December 2012, owners can access an Xbox 360 console with her on the video-on-demand service from Amazon. In December 2012, LOVEFiLM presented as a stream about 1,200 movies on Video on Demand.

set-top box is developed in Amazon’s Lab126 division in Cupertino, California. There are experimenting with devices for several years, working with the TV. Bloomberg expects that the device will be called Kindle TV. But the name is not yet known.

The Project is managed at Amazon by former Cisco Vice President Malachy Moynihan, who has also worked for nine years at Apple. More developers are former Tivo and Vudu engineers and former employees ReplayTV Chris Coley.

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