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Rumors that the company Amazon is preparing its own set-top box or even a full-fledged game console, wandered around the web for half a year already. Today, the company finally made an official announcement and dotted i. Meet the Amazon Fire TV!
This set-top box is very similar to Apple TV, but it also has many additional features that make it superior to its competitor. Yes, in fact, we face the first hybrid set-top box and game console. And let the games on it you can run straightforward, the quality of graphics somewhere at the level of smartphones and tablets, however, play them will be much more pleasant thanks to the proprietary game controller.
In the heart of the black box, there is a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8064 “system on chip” (SOC), including a Qualcomm Krait 300 quad-core processor running at up to 1.7 GHz, a Qualcomm Areno 320 graphics coprocessor with LPDDR2 533 frequency MHz and 8 GB for storing downloaded data. Fire TV is capable of producing a picture in 1080p resolution, as well as sound as Dolby Digital Plus Surround. Fire TV supports all kinds of audio, video and photo formats, data transfer via Bluetooth 4.0, MIMO Wi-Fi, Ethernet, wired headphones, USB-carriers, and weighs only 281 grams.
Amazon Fire TV users will have access to more than 200,000 episodes of various popular TV shows and movies, millions of high-quality music tracks, as well as hundreds of different games. The prefix supports the popular in many countries streaming services and digital TV channels such as Netflix, Huluplus, Plex, Showtime Anytime, Pandora, Vevo and many, many others.
Fire TV supports voice search in a huge catalog of media content. You just need to name out loud the film that you would like to see - and the console itself will find it for you. It remains only to buy it or rent it, and then proceed to view it. Also, a smart console can adapt to your interests and offer you TV shows and movies that are similar to those that you usually watch. Moreover, the prefix will start the background buffering of these series and films even before you want to watch them, as if anticipating your further actions.
Of course, the console has fine parental control settings, gently restricting your children from many hours of games and watching endless cartoons. A caring parent can adjust all this to his or her upbringing methods at any time.
And now about the most interesting - about the games. Of course, this prefix works on the Android operating system, so the games for it are mostly slightly improved versions from smartphones and tablets. By the way, they will cost from $ 0.99 and higher. Initially, Amazon will offer Fire TV games to customers like Mineraft Pocket Edition, The Walking Dead, Monsters University, Deus Ex: The Fall, NBA 2K14, Asphalt 8, and later exclusive projects will be announced that will be released exclusively on this console. It's no wonder that Amazon recently acquired a rather large game studio Double Helix - now many interesting games are being prepared for us in its depths. You can already see footage from several games that will become exclusive to this platform.
Amazon also introduced an analogue of the Apple Game Center gaming service called Game Circle, thanks to which players can earn achievements, compare their results with the achievements of friends, view world record tables, and much, much more.
The price of Amazon Fire TV is very affordable - only $ 99 for the console itself and the remote control. Another $ 39.99 will have to pay for the proprietary game controller. As a result, a complete set-top box with game functions will cost you $ 140. It is a little sad that while Fire TV is not sent to Russia (I have personally checked it), but if you have relatives in the USA or European countries, you can ask them to help you and order a prefix to their address, and then send it to you by international mail. You can buy Fire TV on Amazon.com store.
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