Amazon Fire TV

Overview

Amazon is heating up the battle for your living room with its new set-top box streamer, Fire TV. Boasting a quad-core processor with dedicated graphics, 2GB of RAM, and built-in voice controls, the Fire TV is a powerful little set top box with a growing ecosystem backed by Amazon's own Instant Video content library.

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8.6

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Last revision on September 18, 2015

Reviewers Liked

Very responsive
Elegant design and interface
Lots of content and apps available
Voice search is functional
Flexible port array

Reviewers Didn't Like

Highly curated Amazon interface limits out-of-the-box Android flexibility
Game performance isn't spectacular

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Expert reviews and ratings

The Fire TV is an excellent set-top box which is powerful and well designed. The voice search works well too, but isn't available in all apps. There are other foibles, too, such as confusion over whether videos are included in your Prime Instant video subscription or not. The Fire TV is one of the best video streamers, but it really only makes sense if you pair it with a Prime Instant Video subscription and use Amazon's other cloud services.

By PCAdvisor on November 20, 2014

The Amazon Fire TV is a sleek and effective advert for Amazon's services and a promising casual gaming console. More third-party apps would be nice, but it's a must-have for Amazon users.

By TrustedReviews on November 04, 2014

Amazon's new all-in-one streaming box and game system is affordable, versatile, and worthy of a spot in your entertainment center.

By IGN on April 21, 2014

Amazon Fire TV review | Amazon's new streaming device is high-powered, well-built and beautiful, but tilts heavily toward Amazon services.

By TechRadar on April 09, 2014

Right now though, features like gaming, voice search and ASAP are barely helping it keep pace with the competition. Maybe with a few more apps (HBO Go, Vudu), some great games and an extra layer of polish it could push ahead.

By Engadget on April 09, 2014

Instead, it just gave me another box to watch the same content I can see plenty of other ways. And that means I’m likely going to be sticking with my cable subscription for the foreseeable future.

By The Verge on April 04, 2014

If you're full-in on Amazon already, Fire TV does for your stuff what Apple TV does for the OS X and iOS faithful, with a decent gaming experience thrown in as a bonus. But with limited search, no HBO Go, and a price tag that twice as much (or more) as very appealing options, Fire TV doesn't have quite enough spark.

By Gizmodo on April 04, 2014

The Fire TV streaming-media box is an impressive living room debut for Amazon, with standout features like voice search, gaming, and superfast video streaming, but it falls short of being an elite streamer -- at least for now.

By cnet on April 03, 2014

Amazon's $100 media hub offers an excellent combination of power and flexibility with an accessible, impressively smooth menu system.

By PCMag on April 03, 2014

Amazon's Fire TV is an innovative and powerful entertainment device, but there's plenty of room for improvement.

By Tom's Guide on April 03, 2014

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Amazon Fire TV

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Price: $40

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