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Amazon - Fire TV Streaming Device - Black
Amazon Fire TV: Expand your entertainment options with this Amazon Fire TV streaming media player, which provides you with access to TV shows, movies, music and games. The Bluetooth remote lets you use your voice to search by title, actor, director and more.
pretty good overall
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4.0
This box is extremely powerful and really amazing for the price. It's not as useful for a person like me who didn't buy into the Amazon ecosystem. I previously bought all of my music, movies and whatnot on Apple and Google Play stores. Amazon locks the player down so it only offers Amazon's music, apps and tv/movies - but it is easy to enable developer access and install your own programs.
This means that you can install videogame emulators (Nintendo 64, Sega Genesis, etc) to play retro games. Kodi can be installed to make the Amazon Fire TV a full media center. There are techniques and tools online which will help you add your own icons for these. It takes a bit of knowhow, but for a computer hobbyist, it's all do-able.
It doesn't get 5 stars because of the fact that it is so locked down for anybody who doesn't want to buy into the Amazon ecosystem.
I would recommend this to a friend!
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My Best Buy number: 3464562558
My Best Buy number: 3464562558
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Amazon - Fire TV Streaming Device - Black
Amazon Fire TV: Expand your entertainment options with this Amazon Fire TV streaming media player, which provides you with access to TV shows, movies, music and games. The Bluetooth remote lets you use your voice to search by title, actor, director and more.
What is the differerance between the fire stick and the five tv box
The Fire TV box has wired and wireless internet (Stick only has wireless), Dolby Digital Plus and 5.1 surround sound (Stick only has Dolby Digital Plus), extra games that are too demanding for the Stick, it comes with the voice remote (stick comes with a normal remote), and has 2GB of memory (not storage - both come with 8GB storage, I'm referring to system memory used while running programs) instead of the Stick's 1GB. The Box is better if you're hooking it up to a home theater receiver.
Other than that, they both run typical things like Netflix and Amazon Video. Both can sideload programs like Kodi to make it a media center, or run emulators for games (although the Stick can't handle some of the more demanding games). For day-to-day use (eg. Netflix), the Stick does not run noticeably slower than the box.
Other than that, they both run typical things like Netflix and Amazon Video. Both can sideload programs like Kodi to make it a media center, or run emulators for games (although the Stick can't handle some of the more demanding games). For day-to-day use (eg. Netflix), the Stick does not run noticeably slower than the box.
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