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| -CraZed- said: Amazon has a streaming app on just about every single device you can connect to your TV to include the TV itself. Why would I spend $99 for something that three other devices I already own can do the same thing? Unless Amazon plans on killing support for the consoles, HDTVs, stand-alone streaming boxes etc. I can't see myself purchasing one of these. What exactly will make this stand out in the crowd of already connected devices? |
Yes, you can access Amazon Instant Video with many different devices... I tried it on my SmartTV, my Blu-ray-player, my PS3, my PS4, my Wii U, my iPad and my Kindle Fire.
The thing is... it works best on the Kindle Fire. For example, if you continue a movie or tv-episode, the stream starts much faster... probably it gets buffered instantly when you turn on the device. When you tap on the screen, you get more information than on the other devices (the name of the episode / movie) and a button to jump directly to the next episode:
For comparison, here is the iPad-interface of that app:
And the whole Kindle-GUI is content-based and not application-based, which can be very conveniant for consuming content.
When you start the device, the last content you played/watched/read/listened to is in the focus. Just tap on it and you can just continue where you left:
Or you can tap on the words on the top of the display and jump to your games, apps, music library, instant video, photos or documents on the device... from there just tap on them and they start the standard app, there are also the buttons "cloud" or "shop" available to download or buy additional stuff.
Sure, you can install and start other media-apps and then search and open the content you want within them, but Amazon has made the process to get to your content very streamlined and convenient.
