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abookreader · 11-20-2011, 10:18 AM

I've just finally after several days of setting up my new Kindle Touch, pulled the Fire out of the box and started playing around.

My initial impression is that it is pretty and things work well

BUT

The 8GB limitation plus the difficulty of pulling personal video down from the cloud storage to the Fire seriously limits the practicality of the device. I have numerous old DVDs that I have saved in digital form. First, I can't store all of them in the Cloud because I'm not willing to pay. Second, once I do make a decision as to what videos to put out there .... I then have to re-download them to the device, which has that really limited storage capacity. Really, a micro sd card slot would make me feel so much better about all this. I could buy a high capacity card and load a bunch of movies on it and stick it in. I think Amazon is going to have to make a choice here in the long run, higher internal storage or cave on adding the SD card slot.

I'm not sure what is up with the not streaming movies the way you can music from the cloud. I finally got a movie to download and then play but it was way too many steps. I know that Apple has been having real problems with the movie industry in getting permission to store and then stream iTunes purchased movies from the iCloud. I wonder if it is these legal issues that are also hampering Amazon.

Also right now I've been keeping an eye on the Amazon Kindle board and it seems like even the Amazon Help Desk employees aren't educated on what is up with personal video playing.

Right now I'm going to give it a 5 or a 6. I'm a tad bit disappointed. I don't think Amazon hit it out of the park here and I was really hoping they would. It seems like there still isn't a really great 7" tablet solution.

11-20-2011, 10:18 AM	#54
abookreader Wizard Posts: 1,516 Karma: 2567610 Join Date: Oct 2009 Device: Kindles - Keyboard, Fire, 2-US, iPhone, iPAD	I've just finally after several days of setting up my new Kindle Touch, pulled the Fire out of the box and started playing around. My initial impression is that it is pretty and things work well BUT The 8GB limitation plus the difficulty of pulling personal video down from the cloud storage to the Fire seriously limits the practicality of the device. I have numerous old DVDs that I have saved in digital form. First, I can't store all of them in the Cloud because I'm not willing to pay. Second, once I do make a decision as to what videos to put out there .... I then have to re-download them to the device, which has that really limited storage capacity. Really, a micro sd card slot would make me feel so much better about all this. I could buy a high capacity card and load a bunch of movies on it and stick it in. I think Amazon is going to have to make a choice here in the long run, higher internal storage or cave on adding the SD card slot. I'm not sure what is up with the not streaming movies the way you can music from the cloud. I finally got a movie to download and then play but it was way too many steps. I know that Apple has been having real problems with the movie industry in getting permission to store and then stream iTunes purchased movies from the iCloud. I wonder if it is these legal issues that are also hampering Amazon. Also right now I've been keeping an eye on the Amazon Kindle board and it seems like even the Amazon Help Desk employees aren't educated on what is up with personal video playing. Right now I'm going to give it a 5 or a 6. I'm a tad bit disappointed. I don't think Amazon hit it out of the park here and I was really hoping they would. It seems like there still isn't a really great 7" tablet solution.