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Posted 3 September 2014
Amazon Fire TV £79/£49 for Prime Members. Pre-order now!
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£49 for Prime members, offer seems to end Monday. Discount added at Checkout. Released October 23rd.
Also to note, any Prime member is eligible for the offer (including those who are named on a Prime account using the misc 'trick').
Massive selection—Thousands of TV episodes and movies, millions of songs and over a hundred games. Show me
Free 30-day Prime trial—Enjoy unlimited streaming of thousands of popular movies and TV shows from Britain's largest subscription streaming service. Learn more
Voice search that actually works—Simply say the name of what you want to watch and start enjoying in seconds
Tiny box, huge specs—Fast quad-core processor, 2 GB of memory, dedicated GPU, plus support for up to 1080p HD video and Dolby Digital Plus surround sound
Easy to set up and use—Pre-registered to your Amazon account so you can enjoy favourite titles and personalised recommendations
Instant streaming—Exclusive new feature ASAP predicts what movies and TV episodes you’ll want to watch and buffers them for playback before you hit play
Great for gaming, too—Play blockbuster titles like Minecraft-Pocket Edition, The Walking Dead and Monsters University, plus free games and Amazon exclusives. Paid games start from just £0.59.
Also to note, any Prime member is eligible for the offer (including those who are named on a Prime account using the misc 'trick').
Massive selection—Thousands of TV episodes and movies, millions of songs and over a hundred games. Show me
Free 30-day Prime trial—Enjoy unlimited streaming of thousands of popular movies and TV shows from Britain's largest subscription streaming service. Learn more
Voice search that actually works—Simply say the name of what you want to watch and start enjoying in seconds
Tiny box, huge specs—Fast quad-core processor, 2 GB of memory, dedicated GPU, plus support for up to 1080p HD video and Dolby Digital Plus surround sound
Easy to set up and use—Pre-registered to your Amazon account so you can enjoy favourite titles and personalised recommendations
Instant streaming—Exclusive new feature ASAP predicts what movies and TV episodes you’ll want to watch and buffers them for playback before you hit play
Great for gaming, too—Play blockbuster titles like Minecraft-Pocket Edition, The Walking Dead and Monsters University, plus free games and Amazon exclusives. Paid games start from just £0.59.
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It's the Amazon Instant Video......So I pay £79 a year for Amazon Prime.....you would honestly think that included all the movies/tv shows on Instant Video.......nope!
Absolute rip off.
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I was looking at my neighbours pond the other day, then a heron came down and ate all of his fish, the moral of the story is, if you have something someone else will take if off you. I don't know what this has to do with this deal as I'm drunk at the moment.
If downloading an .apk file and installing is messing around, shocking you managed to register an account here. Or anywhere for that matter.
Q1) I have a Revo/Pi/Chromecast - why do I need this?
A1) You don't. But I've had all of the above and this is by far the smoothest/quickest XBMC or Plex experience I've had to date. At this price I'm not sure why people bother with the Pi anymore tbh. I suspect this will get even smoother and faster as I can see developers making the most of it's RAM and other internals. It also has a dedicated remote which is pretty handy when mapped properly (easy).
Q2) What can this do that the others can't?
A2) Emulators for one. Mine runs PS1, N64,SNES,and Megadrive games beautifully. I use a Xbox 360 pad with a PC USB dongle. Works fine. My Revo could run emulators.
Q3: can I plug an external HD into the USB port and plays videos/bits off it?
A3: Yes. You'll need to root it though. Again, easy enough. Just follow the wiki directions.
Q4: the best out there then?
A4: Nope. My favourite box remains a i5 NUC - those things are beasts. They're also A LOT more expensive and total overkill for most people. At £49 this is a steal. At £79 it's still good value.
Hope that helps someone.
You could install Plex or Kodi (XBMC) on the Fire TV.
plex.tv/ama…etv
wiki.xbmc.org/ind…_TV
Android TV is coming very soon. As for game play it will be holstering a Tegra K1 64 bit chip which will make it the ultimate media consumption device with similar capabilities only seen in the like of a PS4 and Xbox one. The Tegra K1 will make the Fire box look like a damp squid and who wants to be locked into the Amazon App store! blogs.nvidia.com/blo…ra/
Amazon are slashing the cost and pushing it so hard before its launch in two months as they know they are about to face serious competition. If you love Amazon so much that you want to be locked into their eco system your as bad as that Apple lot.
Absolutely brilliant point...completely forgot about Android TV and can imagine Google will price it competitively against the Fire and Apple TV, even though the K1 is a beast!
Have just cancelled my Amazon pre-order!
forum.xda-developers.com/fir…-tv
amazon.com/gp/…DER
Yeah right ok, enjoy your 480p rip of the inbetweeners (that's not HD btw) and your cam job of sin city 2 then.
we did that for a while but the faff of plugging it in, booting up, logging into services was a ball ache, and then when i was out the missus and kids couldn't work it properly.
this just cuts out the hassle for those issues, and probably cheaper than buying a laptop with hdmi.
A warning for anyone wanting to install Plex, DTS is not supported. Kodi (XBMC) has it's own transcoders so will play DTS.
Totally different concepts, you could sign up to netflix etc on this/install various add ons that use internet streams but you're not going to get the same channels that you would with a satellite box.
If you want to watch live TV on many channels then what you're looking for is a dreambox but that can't be discussed here.
That being said, if you just want to watch pre recorded tv shows/movies you can install showbox on this which will let you do that, and so will add ons within xbmc. You can rip movies/tv shows and watch them locally which the costs will just be this and the size of hard drive you buy for the movies/tv shows.
Agree with you to some point there. A in particular, is the reason I am upgrading from my Roku, that and probably end up going back to XBMC so I don't have to transcode in Plex no more except to external devices and daughters Ipad. Saying that though, Sky also killed Amazon in the UK on Roku platforms...
But the suggestion that to get the same functionality as this machine is to buy an Xbox 360 and buy a Chromecast somewhat misses the point - not just power usage (and the damn noise of the 360) but you are now talking about having two machines plugged into the telly to get the same functionality as one box does. So that's two distinct controller options (Xbox can do IR or controller, Chromecast has to have a tablet/phone hookup - potentially yet another thing to buy for your solution? This is getting somewhat north of £49 here ), which is not family friendly really at all.
As someone who owns most of that stuff already - great - but I still choose not to have all of them under my TV when I can have a single box solution that I don't have to explain a million times to my child or wife how to watch a film from our network.
But a Samsung Smart Blu-Ray and it will know this piece of cr*p for Six !
Go to the website and add a pin number to purchasing content, this really annoyed me but it was an easy fix once I found the option to add the pin number in, not accidentally bought anything since.
Edit: found it, go to amazon website, then your video library, hit settings and add a pin number to purchasing content.
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Good tip, thanks.
Here's a direct link for anyone who needs it.
amazon.co.uk/gp/…ngs
You two made my day!
can you use google?
Install Genesis.
In settings, set autoplay source (I usually also select auto HD).
It'll collate all the available streams for you and automatically play the best one, as well as ignoring the broken links.
Works perfectly for me.
You can add up to 3 (I believe) "family/household" accounts onto your prime membership which they share. Although they don't have to be at the same address so it's a nice way to split the cost of prime (it was great back when prime was much less). The only thing "family" members don't get is the instant video and book lending.
Agree with Buzz, the content for Instant is absolutely shocking.
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oooh now that changes things slightly
This is a deal breaker for me can it read a 1080p mkv?
May take you up on that offer, got to clear it by She who must be obeyed first tho......
For those who don't understand, they make many loss leading items and services to get market share. This profit loss means less profits to pay tax on. That is not tax dodging or not paying their fair way.
Thought I would pre-empt the tax dodger planks before they weasel out the woodwork.
Chromecast is just a caster. The media comes from elsewhere. This is a media player/android tv device.