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]

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