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CNET News - Amazon unveils the FireTV

2014-04-02
and lose yourself in the directors for introducing amazon fire TV the obligatory fake swap of cameras when i try listen this thing's tiny it's incredibly powerful and it's unbelievably simple it's the best place to watch the most popular TV shows and movies in the comfort of their own home okay that's their right into it bio TV has a quad-core processor its best in class 4a products of this time it also has a dedicated epu of the kind you sleep on in high-end smartphones and it processes fifty seven billion floating-point operations per second this is going to be important in a few minutes when I show you some of the features the second performance bottleneck visa was rapid fire TV has two gigs of RAM that's two to four times more than these other products on the market now and this is really important because applications start more quickly video starts more quickly and then user interface is smooth and easy to navigate so that the device disappears into the background the third thing we saw in terms of our performance bottleneck was the network itself biog vs new band dual antenna Wi-Fi with my mom this is state-of-the-art for a product like this so that videos starts training immediately applications start downloading immediately and quickly this thing really screams I can't wait to get subtract if you add it all up fire TV has three times the performance and power of apple TV of Roku 3 of chromecast this is a powerful device it is thinner than a dime fits underneath your TV behind your TV seamless and fades of the background you lose yourself at high def content up to 1080p it's got the only digital surround sorry dolby digital plus surround sound out via either hdmi or via optical the remote control redeveloped is small elegant and very simple to use stop moving them which is a future that for me is I've been using fire TV over the past few months really makes it into a great experience because I no longer have to fumble around pointing my remote at a tiny area at the begin at the front of my living room I can click the remote from whatever position I happen in the aim and fire TV response and as you can see on the left hand side I can scroll from home the movies TV to my watch list I'm going to scroll back up here to movies I'm going to pop over to the content on the right hand side and you'll see that we're using big beautiful images throughout fire TV the content isn't hidden behind an application that you have to their way through to get the content you want to watch its front and center watch this I'm going too fast scroll through this new release movies list this is where the performance the specs I talked about a little bit earlier really come into play just like all amazon devices by our tvs comes director so i have to contact your watchlist movies and TV shows that you happen to own earlier it's already there ready and waiting for you open the box you plug it in you turn it on and we waiting to go super simple startup experience and you use it over time we have a recently list here the top a home so i can conflict the jab can we watch them right now is only a couple clicks away this is what you do on fire TV john malkovich pops up I go straight to all the movies that John Malkovich is in I can watch them I can also scroll down here to add to my watch list it's that fast by next month we'll have thousands of names bill we want to make it easy for customers to play games you give me a few different options you can use the fire TV remote play games it's a brave and play we've also created an app that allows you to use the phones and tablets that you already own to play games this will be 0 this one will be available next month some customers are going to play a lot of these and they're going to flake are many hours they're a lot a dedicated angel to complete the gains experience on fire TV we built the fire game controller this controller is comfortable as familiar so if you've used a game controller in the past to go to pick it up and use it right away for customers it's available for 39 99 and it also comes with a thousand amazon coins allows you to load up on some games play CJ's kind of built-ins up a cool little shaft and turns out building things and mine perhaps a lot of fun and blowing things up kind of fun too so that doesn't get old for me okay just remember this is all being played on this tiny little box because we could have brought this game to fire TV and if want to look so beautiful without the specs that Peter talked about earlier quad-core processor dedicated GPU two gigs of ram it is aptly incredible price append I know we're so excited to get this in the hands of customers and shipping today you
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