Sunday, July 31, 2016

Amazon Fire TV

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Amazon Fire TV

Amazon Fire TV is a tiny box that connects your HDTV to a world of online entertainment. Amazon Fire TV now brings you 4K Ultra High Definition streaming capability, giving you a best-in-class television experience with true-to-life picture quality when used with compatible 4K Ultra HD TVs—something Apple TV, and Chromecast don’t support. Your 4K TV must support minimum HDCP requirements for protected content playback. Now with 75% more processing power than the previous generation Fire TV, a dedicated graphics engine, better Wi-Fi support, and 2 GB of memory. Your voice just got more powerful: not only can you search using your voice remote—now you can use Alexa, the brain behind Echo, on your Amazon Fire TV. Alexa answers questions, plays music, checks local theater times, sports scores, the weather, and more—instantly.

Apps
What's on Amazon Fire TV?

With over 4,000 channels, apps, and games, Amazon Fire TV offers all your favorite subscriptions and streaming services. Watch over 250,000 TV episodes, movies, including live TV. Kick back with sports, news, music, and games. With instant access to Netflix, Amazon Video, HBO NOW, Hulu, and more, you're sure to find something you love. Watch live TV with Sling TV, which includes ESPN, AMC, HGTV, TNT, Food Network, ABC Family, and more. Millions of songs are available to stream on Amazon Fire TV through Prime Music, Pandora, and Spotify. Amazon Fire TV is also the easiest way to game on your HDTV. Many games are free, and paid games start from just 99 cents.

Meet Alexa
Meet Alexa

Now you can use Alexa, the brain behind Echo, on your Amazon Fire TV. Alexa, a cloud-based voice service provides, information, answers questions, plays music, checks local theater times, sports scores, the weather, and more. Just ask Alexa using your Fire TV Voice Remote.

TV the way you want it

Use your cable subscription to stream what you love on-demand through apps like HBO GO, Showtime Anytime, A&E, WatchESPN, and more. Get access to all your favorites with Fire TV - download the apps and enter your cable account information to start watching. Stream your favorite shows at the same time they're broadcast with CBS All Access, the NBA app, MLB.tv, and more. Plus watch live TV with Sling TV—which includes ESPN, AMC, ABC Family, TNT, Food Network, Cartoon Network, Disney Channel, CNN, HGTV, and A&E. Subscription fees may apply.

Even better with Prime

With Prime Video, thousands of movies and TV shows including The Americans, Justified, and Downton Abbey, are available to stream instantly, at no additional cost. Access your favorite HBO shows like The Sopranos in the HBO Collection. As a Prime member, unlock hours of new shows created by Amazon Studios. From Bosch to the award-winning series Transparent, plus great shows for kids like Creative Galaxy, Amazon Originals showcase comedy, drama, and children's programming you can only see on Amazon. With Prime Music, you can listen ad-free to over a million songs. And there are more than one thousand Prime Music Playlists and hundreds of Prime Stations to choose from based on your mood, activity, artist or decade of choice.

Tiny box. Huge specs.
Tiny box. Huge specs.

With Amazon Fire TV, you can stream movies and TV shows in 4K Ultra HD, 1080p, or 720p. With Dolby Audio, enjoy rich cinematic surround sound via HDMI (up to 7.1) in supported apps including Amazon Video, HBO GO, and Starz, with Netflix, and Plex coming soon. From the responsive interface and instant search results, to smooth gaming and ultra-fast streaming, everything about Amazon Fire TV is fast and fluid. It's all thanks to a quad-core processor with 75% more processing power than the previous generation Amazon Fire TV, a dedicated graphics engine, and 2 GB of memory. Say goodbye to buffering: you shouldn't have to wait 10 seconds for a video to buffer every time you press "Play". ASAP (Advanced Streaming and Prediction) learns what Amazon movies and shows you like and gets them ready for you to watch. The more you use Fire TV, the more accurate ASAP becomes, dynamically adapting to your viewing habits.

Easy to set up and use

Amazon Fire TV arrives pre-registered to your Amazon account and sets up in minutes. A user-friendly interface makes it easy to browse popular movies, shows, and personalized recommendations straight from your home screen. Use your voice remote to find your favorite TV shows, movies, songs, albums, and more.



Company: Amazon (2015-10-05)
List Price: $99.99
Amazon Price: $99.99