Amazon Fire TV
Cable is becoming less and less important to most of us. For the most part, everything we want to watch can be found online. Roku started the online-to-TV viewing trend in 2008 with Netflix as their only channel provider and now with thousands of channels available, other providers have jumped on the bandwagon. Essentially every blue ray player has some online channels. The Apple TV and recently, Chromecast also have several channels to choose from. Amazon, though, just jumped into the market with a system that would blow any other system out of the water. They named it Amazon Fire TV.
So why is this Amazon Fire TV so great?
First, What can you watch? Amazon has made deals with most of the major online TV providers to broadcast their channels: Netflix, Amazon instant video, Hulu Plus, ESPN, and many more. Amazon itself boasts more than 200,000 movies, TV shows, and games.
Second, you can TALK to your TV. That's Right! There is a tiny microphone on the remote that allows you to give commands without spending precious sloth time looking for tiny little buttons. What could make this even better? The remote is bluetooth! That means that it doesn't have to be pointing at the TV, or even in the same room.
The thing that sets the Amazon Fire TV farthest from the others, though, is its specs.
Quad-core processor (2 cores more than the closest competitor, this means that you can load channels and click with lightning speed)
and
2 GB Memory (3x faster than the competitors, this means that your games or videos will be able to load faster and buffer farther. This could allow you to watch an entire movie without it cutting out)
While the price ($99) is more than the Google Chromecast ($35), it is comparable to the Apple TV ($99) and the Roku 3 ($99). For $99, you can't get a system that even compares to the Amazon Fire TV.
So why is this Amazon Fire TV so great?
Second, you can TALK to your TV. That's Right! There is a tiny microphone on the remote that allows you to give commands without spending precious sloth time looking for tiny little buttons. What could make this even better? The remote is bluetooth! That means that it doesn't have to be pointing at the TV, or even in the same room.
The thing that sets the Amazon Fire TV farthest from the others, though, is its specs.
Quad-core processor (2 cores more than the closest competitor, this means that you can load channels and click with lightning speed)
and
2 GB Memory (3x faster than the competitors, this means that your games or videos will be able to load faster and buffer farther. This could allow you to watch an entire movie without it cutting out)
While the price ($99) is more than the Google Chromecast ($35), it is comparable to the Apple TV ($99) and the Roku 3 ($99). For $99, you can't get a system that even compares to the Amazon Fire TV.
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