Amazon has launched the Amazon
fire TV, a small set-top box that mixes video with music streaming and gaming
and is intended specifically to challenge the Roku and Apple TV. The $100
(RM328) device, which fits on sale these days, was unveiled at a special launch
event in New York and is absolute to build competitors panic. Amazon claims
that the device's style is influenced by the shortcomings of different set-top
boxes on sale and by the growing demand from its customers for multimedia
content while not being stuck in a much closed ecosystem.
The result, the Amazon fire TV,
may be a small black box filled with a significant Smartphone-level processor,
2GB of RAM and can ship with an overseas management with an integrated
microphone, which means that it'll reply to voice commands too. But similarly
as performance and voice recognition, the device is targeted on simplicity, and
also the interface is intended to form search easy and comprehensive. As an
example, all of the menu and category things are given along, be it movies,
want lists or saved photos.
But maybe most intriguing is that
Amazon claims the box may be a entrance to an open, instead of closed,
ecosystem which similarly as hosting Amazon's own content, the device is
getting ready to receive content from a bunch of partners together with
Netflix, Hulu, ESPN and Walt Disney with more to follow. Amazon claims that as
a result of the device is constructed on a platform supported android and html,
that porting existing apps over are going to be terribly easy.
That's spectacular enough,
however the box will support music streaming services together with iHeart Radio
and Pandora and, maybe most importantly of all, gaming. Amazon has teamed up
with a bunch of games studios together with Ubisoft to form titles for the
hearth TV and also the initial game to be launched is going to be a special
version of "Mine craft”. And to form taking part in additional fun,
Associate in nursing optional diversion controller that doubles as a TV and
video remote are going to be on the market as a $40 accent.
As well as collaborations, Amazon
is additionally’s through with TV shows. The Amazon fire TV is obtainable to
shop for within the USA currently.
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