Finding a way to get customers to stick to a single streaming media service is always tricky business for a company. With that being said, the battle for hardware space in your living room has been heating up recently, and Amazon is ready to throw its hat in the ring. Latest reports show that Amazon’s event next week in New York City is centered around a new web-to-TV streaming box.
An invite is making the rounds to news sites, inviting reporters to an event on April 2 that starts at 11AM. That is next Wednesday in case you don’t have your calendar within arms reach. The invite offers people to get an update on Amazon’s video business from Peter Larsen himself.
Rumors going around say that we will finally get to see Amazon’s delayed media streaming device. We are expecting to see a heavily forked version of Android powering this device, and you can expect a lot of talk about Amazon Prime considering its recent price increase.
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This article focuses on the more obvious media streaming, however we all have read the rumors of Amazon game development plus game controller. Android does have a full gaming SDK now that Amazon would build off of as well.
So how do you think this will do? Ouya has a mediocre launch, but was recently pushed by the Amazon gold box deal and sold decently.
Another oddity is that almost all DVD/BR players, smart TVs, and of course your phones/tablets all have an amazon app to do the regular media stuff. Why are they doing this device if it were not for a bigger push into more media options like games?
