American online retailer Amazon has decided to create its own distribution system for Internet TV. It is no longer the possibility to download individual videos, and about the full broadcast.
Wall Street Journal reports that Amazon has decided to join forces with at least three producers of content and want to distribute their videos through its own service. Currently the company is in the initial stage of creating strimingovyh system. At Amazon already has a service called Instant Video, through which subscribers can receive specific videos. The project to create an Internet television retailer will try to achieve the same goal, pursued by the creators and ghostly Roku Apple TV, but as it became known within CES 2014 TV streaming interested and Sony.
Systems Internet TV – direct competitors of satellite and cable networks, which U.S. is currently dominated. It is the owners of these networks prevent a new type of players to occupy the market, discouraging content providers from entering into contracts with them.
Even Intel, which a few years trying to expand their own Internet broadcasting, failed. The Company recognized a business unpromising and rushed to sell it to Verizon. It became known yesterday that cloud TV services and products developed by Intel Media, will come under the wing of Verizon for I quarter of this year. Verizon intends to acquire intellectual property rights, and other assets required for the possession of technologies Intel. In addition Verizon will employ all staff units Intel Media, which employs 350 people.
If we talk about the Amazon, it will be interesting to know whether the company will give some advantages and privileges of holders of Kindle, how many will ask for a subscription to the service.
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