Good news for folks looking to play games on their Amazon Fire TV devices: the Amazon Fire TV Game Controller in on sale for $20, marked down from $50. That’s the lowest price ever on this wireless game controller. Bad news for folks that have recent Fire TV devices: Amazon’s official game controller only works […]
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Amazon Fire TV Cube arrives to (mostly) positive reviews
It was obviously just a matter of time before Amazon merged its Fire TV and Echo line of products to launch a voice-controlled media streamer. So the only really surprising thing about Amazon’s unveiling of the Fire TV Cube earlier this month is that it took the company as long as it did to launch […]
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Amazon Fire TV Cube on the way (maybe with a mic, speaker, and Alexa support)
Last September AFTV News reported that Amazon was working on at least two new Fire TV devices, a pendant-style model that would dangle from your TV’s HDMI port, and a cube-shaped device that would basically be a cross between an Amazon Echo Dot and a Fire TV. A few weeks later, Amazon unveiled the $70 […]
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Best Buy ditches Roku for Amazon Fire TV for its new Insignia Smart TVs
Best Buy and Amazon announced an exclusive partnership this morning that will have Best Buy selling Amazon Fire TV Edition smart televisions in its stores, with “more than 10” Fire TV Edition models coming soon from Toshiba and Best Buy’s own Insignia brand. The new TVs will be sold in Best Buy stores, at BestBuy.com, […]
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Amazon’s new $70 Fire TV is tiny and 4K-ready
As expected, Amazon is updating is Fire TV lineup with a new 4K-ready model that’s small enough to hang off the HDMI port of your TV from a small cable, much like Google’s Chromecast Ultra. And like the Chromecast Ultra, the new Amazon Fire TV is priced at $70. But while Google’s media streamer is […]
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Amazon may launch two new Fire TV devices this fall (mid-range and high-end)
Amazon currently sells two media streaming devices as part of its Fire TV lineup: the 2nd-gen Amazon Fire TV which sells for $90, and the 2nd-gen Amazon Fire TV Stick (which has a list price of $40, but which is currently on sale for $35). But according to AFTV News, Amazon may be working on […]
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Now you can control a Fire TV with an Echo (or soon, anyway)
Amazon’s Echo device may have launched a few years before any real competitors hit the market. But up until now there’s been one nifty feature that Google Home had that Amazon’s devices did not: if you have a Chromecast-enabled TV you can control it with your voice by talking to a Google Home. Now Amazon […]
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Hack your Amazon Fire TV to make it run Android TV apps (among other things)
Amazon’s Fire TV devices may run a modified version of Google Android, but they don’t have Google’s Android TV user interface, access to the Google Play Store, or ability to stream videos from Google Play Movies. But it turns out you can add all of those features… plus support for USB TV tuners, the Android […]
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Amazon Fire TV to get a web browser
The Amazon Fire TV line of devices let you stream internet music and video, play games, and run other apps downloaded from the Amazon Appstore. One thing that’s not easy to do? Surf the web. But there are signs that this could change in the future. AFTVNews noticed that the Amazon Silk web browser which […]
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Westinghouse TV with Amazon Fire TV UI hits the FCC, here are some cool features
Amazon has been selling Fire TV media streamers for a few years, but starting soon you’ll be able to buy a TV that has Fire TV software baked in. Amazon announced in January that it’s working with a few different TV makers, and I got an early look at one of the first models at […]