Netflix And Nintendo Agree To Stream Movies, TV On Wii This Spring | paidContent.

I find this fascinating, as there is (and has been for some time now) a race between Nintendo, Apple, Microsoft and others to become the entertainment “hub” in the living room. But as we move from 3G to 4G and the mobile user experience continues to improve, will it really matter? If we can access content from wherever, the living room becomes less important, no? Or, are we going to have a hub-and-spoke model of accessing our content, with some central point as the hub and our various devices (e.g. – tablet, smartphone, etc) as spokes optimized for particular experiences (e.g. – tablet for reading & long-form video)?

One thing’s for sure: not having to deal with DVDs anymore makes me a lot more interested in giving the Wii another look…

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I digress – I dig the iPhone. And yet, out of the corner of my eye I can see the next toy – the Amazon Kindle. The price had always been a buzzkill though. When i openly mused about it on Twitter, my friend Alison sent me this rather engaging article on the Kindle from the New Yorker. After reading it, I figured the Kindle for iPhone app would be a good first step, and I downloaded it with the thought that it might keep me from parting with $359

Indeed. I’m very happy with it thus far. Everything about the experience has been satisfactory if not excellent. I downloaded “The Histories” by Herodotus, which was quite easy with Amazon 1-click. Black words on a brightly-lit white background with about 18 or so lines of text per screen – really easy reading experience. And it’s pretty light on the battery. You can move between pages by either sliding the touch screen or by tapping the lower right or left side of the page. It’s quite easy – I’m gliding through the book, despite it being roughly eleventy thousand pages long.

Bigger picture, my Kindle experience has raised a question – is there any form of media that I can’t consume via the iPhone now? I read, listen to music, watch TV (via the TV.com app)…it’s just amazing to me that so much content I value can be accessed through one screen. It remains to be seen though if I’ll continue to get that content so cheaply…

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