Amazon has joined the battle for the living room, introducing the Amazon Fire TV, a small black box that connects your HDTV to a world of online entertainment. It is designed to stream the company’s catalog of free and paid shows and movies and let users play online video games on their large-screen TVs.
Amazon will compete with Apple TV and console makers like Microsoft and Sony. One feature that distinguishes Fire TV from at least some competitors’ offerings is its ability to bring casual games to televisions. Owners can play games with either the remote control or Amazon’s Kindle Fire tablet. There are far fewer games in Amazon’s app catalog than in Apple’s or Google’s. Although Fire TV owners will find King.com’s (KING) ingenious Candy Crush Saga in Amazon’s Appstore, they won’t find such popular time-wasters as the mobile shooting game Bioshock, the second-most popular game on the Apple App Store. Amazon hopes to rectify this imbalance by making its own games like combat game Sev Zero, which will make its debut on Fire TV.
Moreover, Amazon’s fireTV has a couple unique features, including a remote control with a voice recognition search feature, so a user can speak the name a show, actor or topic and find that content.
More fireTV features:
— Over 200,000 TV episodes and movies, millions of songs, and over a hundred games
— Unlimited access to thousands of popular movies and TV shows including exclusive titles like
Downton Abbey and Under the Dome.
— Voice search
— Fast quad-core processor, 2 GB of memory, dedicated GPU
— 1080p HD video
— Dolby Digital Plus surround sound
— Instant streaming
Amazon's FireTv device will cost $99.
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