Amazon Fire TV review

Amazon launched the Fire TV, TV box with streaming capabilities

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The Amazon Fire TV is launched by the giant e-commerce in collaboration with many streaming services. Americans can buy today for $ 99.

it was a moment that rumors evoked the launch of a TV box by Amazon.This time it's official. The giant e-commerce out this April 2, 2014 the Fire TV. A device that allows you to enjoy streaming media reveal several U.S. sites. "We want to provide a simplified user experience," said Peter Larsen, Amazon vice president. The device takes the form of a little black box, in the manner of Apple TV, not a key as had been supposed.

Amazon Fire TV review

The living room users are definitely very popular in recent weeks. After the release of the HDMI Chromecast key (available here with a price drop to $ 33) that starts with a beautiful library app whose test is to find here is that Amazon has a place there. While last rumors suggested that Amazon would release a key, it is ultimately a TV box with remote control and even a joystick, not to mention the games or voice search that Amazon offers the Fire TV:

Amazon hit strongly with his box Fire TV but also accessories. If the design is quite similar to the Apple TV with a form of black pavement, the box is much more comprehensive, both characteristics than its functionality.

In order to turn the beast, it is a quad-core processor supported by a graphics chip Adreno 320 and 2GB of RAM that gets stuck With Wi-Fi connectivity Mimo, an Ethernet jack, a USB port and an HDMI or optical output Amazon has put the dishes in the large. To simplify the user's life, Bluetooth remote integrating voice search in the manner of Siri is even in the game. At startup, the Fire TV already offers many services such as Hulu, Netflix, Vimeo, YouTube or NBA and one can imagine that the list will grow in the weeks / months to come. Indeed, the Fire TV is based on a customized version of Apps, which should make porting apps or services on the case. of course, the user can stream photos, music or videos from a smartphone or tablet. Mobile devices, even if it takes a little longer before seeing arrive iOS apps dedicated to the iPhone, will be able to display information about the current program.

The games are of course part of the allocation with a beautiful library already from Gameloft EA, Sega, TellTaleGames or 2K for example. And for comfort, Amazon took the opportunity to offer its own joystick To discover more about the casing Here's a video where you can understand the way that its works:

The box Fire TV is already available in the U.S. at $ 99 while the controller is proposed at $ 39.99. It is hoped that the machine will soon arrive in Europe. If the room of the user is actually highly sought after the arrival of the key Google Chromecast and now Amazon Fire TV box, imposes on Apple to review quickly and deep way his Apple TV is beginning to take a big hit of Old. According to the latest rumors, Apple TV could be an announcement during April to effective output end of the year and it is clear that Apple needs to strike hard to regain the competitive edge.

OUR FIRST IMPRESSIONS ON FIRE TV AMAZON

Amazon just unveiled by the Fire TV terminal, sold $ 99, wants to attack frontally the Roku, Apple TV and Chromecast. And to do so, he makes some arguments that could well be fly.

Thereby, unlike its main competitors, the Fire TV turned an open ecosystem. It comes to Android, which will already be able to use the Netflix service, Pandora, Hulu Plus and Crackle. The American will happen against by the HBO Go and Vudu yet. But to summarize, we can say that the Fire TV is easy to use and is very easy to find content through it. That's the main thing. The Fire TV takes the form of a small black box, carrying a quad-core processor, a dedicated GPU, 2GB of RAM, compatibility with dual-band WiFi Mimo, HDMI output and a remote control with the minimum dimensions, operating via Bluetooth.

Its interface is clean, minimal and put directly before you wish to view content, the contents available, etc.. On the demo that we could see, the experience was reactive, and prediction system contained, that could possibly seem like we prowled. Voice search is also put on the Fire TV, and when a representative Amazon stated "John Malcovich" the terminal has listed very quickly all content in which the actor was involved, based on the database of IMDB.

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To navigate through the various options, the Fire TV comes with a remote control with microphone. Of course, it also includes the conventional navigation buttons, but can understand some voice commands similar to what Microsoft offers with Xbox One. Note that this device communicates with the console via a Bluetooth connection.

Yes, the photos of the joystick that we shared last month you were indeed authentic. Fans of video games curious to try Amazon offers will have to pay a $ 40 additional.

The Amazon offer at this level seems to be modeled on that of the Ouya, which hardly manages to make its place in the industry. The initial game library offers among other games The Walking Dead, Minecraft, and Sev Zero - Exclusive to Amazon.

However, the statement mentions that Amazon has worked with studios like EA, Ubisoft, 2K and Sega so that they create games for its console. The securities are sold an average of $ 1.85, suggesting that the games are the same as those found today on mobile devices.

Currently, the Fire TV is available exclusively on the Amazon U.S. store. Impossible to know if the e-commerce giant plans to sell soon its new product outside the United States, and for how much...Article Source