The Amazon Fire TV, available for $99 from Amazon, hasn’t yet made any jaw-dropping leaps forward, but it is an excellent set-top box that, in some ways, breaks ahead of the Apple TV, Google Chromecast and Roku competition. Though the Amazon Fire TV isn’t just another box that lets you stream movies and video to your living room HDTV, it’s solid, svelte, sexy and fast. It boasts 1080p HD delivered through a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8064 Krait 300 quad-core 1.7 GHz processor, Adreno 320 graphics, 2 GB of memory, and 8 GB of storage.
The deal breaker for me is no USB drive content streaming. I have a Roku 3 with very limited USB streaming, and a new WD box that streams damn near everything. I realize Amazon wants to sell its own content but the addition of AVI, MPx, etc. streaming would be a killer product.
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Amazon Fire TV Fails to Rage but Glows Hot
Posted by: Chris Maxcer April 8, 2014 07:13 AMThe Amazon Fire TV, available for $99 from Amazon, hasn’t yet made any jaw-dropping leaps forward, but it is an excellent set-top box that, in some ways, breaks ahead of the Apple TV, Google Chromecast and Roku competition. Though the Amazon Fire TV isn’t just another box that lets you stream movies and video to your living room HDTV, it’s solid, svelte, sexy and fast. It boasts 1080p HD delivered through a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8064 Krait 300 quad-core 1.7 GHz processor, Adreno 320 graphics, 2 GB of memory, and 8 GB of storage.