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A mirroring feature displays what’s on a Kindle Fire HDX on TV.
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FreeTime, a feature Amazon developed for the Kindle tablets to manage the content kids can access on tablets, will also come to Fire TV to let parents “white-list” content on the set-top box.įire TV includes features that work with Kindle tablets, too. Next month, Amazon will add the ability to stream music purchased from the e-retailer with lyrics synchronized on the TV screen.
It’s available for $6.99 (free with purchase of the Fire game controller). Execs showed a demo of “Sev Zero,” a first-person shooter set in outer space. In addition, Amazon Game Studios is developing games from the ground up for Fire TV. The average price of a paid game will be $1.85, and there will be more than 1,000 games that are free to play. The device has an optional $39.99 game controller, and next month Amazon will offer thousands of games on the box, including “Minecraft,” “Monsters University,” “The Game of Life,” “The Walking Dead,” “NBA2K14,” “Asphalt 8: Airborne” and “Despicable Me: Minion Rush.” The company said it has deals to bring games from Disney, EA, Gameloft, Ubisoft, Sega, Telltale and others to the device. SEE ALSO: Amazon Greenlights 6 Series, Including Chris Carter’s ‘The After,’ and Renews ‘Alpha House’Īmazon Fire TV is also a game machine. (UPDATE: Amazon said it’s working with HBO to make the service available on Fire TV, while an HBO rep said premium cabler has “no plans at this time to be on it.”) Amazon said additional services including WWE Network, MLB.TV, Watch Disney Channel, Watch ABC and Twitch will be coming soon.
HBO Go is currently absent from the lineup. Other video apps available on Fire TV include Time Warner’s Flixster, Vimeo, Bloomberg TV, Sony’s Crackle, Plex, Red Bull TV, Qello Concerts and RealNetworks’ RealPlayer Cloud. He also touted Amazon Studios’ original series, including John Goodman-starrer “Alpha House,” and the just-greenlit “The After” from Chris Carter and dramedy “Mozart in the Jungle.” Larsen said Amazon has invested “hundreds of millions of dollars” in content since 2011, which includes several exclusive pacts for TV shows including Fox’s “24,” CBS’s “Under the Dome” and kids’ far from Nickelodeon. Fire TV also supports voice-recognition to search for content.
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The device includes a Bluetooth-enabled remote control, and has a predictive-analysis feature dubbed “ASAP” to guess what TV show or movie title a user will watch next.
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The Android-based box supports 1080p video, and sports a quad-core processor, a dedicated graphics processing unit and 2 gigabytes of memory. The square (4.5-by-4.5-inch) device is 0.7-inch high, so it fits comfortably anywhere in an entertainment center or behind a TV, Larsen said. SEE ALSO: Amazon’s Fire TV Box: No-Brainer Strategy, But Will It Light Up Retailer’s Revenue? Also key: Fire TV will ship preregistered with customers’ Amazon account, so they can start buying TV shows or movies, or start streaming Prime Instant Video, right away.
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Eligible customers will get a free 30-day trial of Amazon Prime - which the company just hiked 25%, to $99 per year - when they purchase a Fire TV. “It’s the best way to watch Netflix… This isn’t a closed ecosystem.” “This is a powerful device,” Larsen said, at the company’s launch event today in New York.
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