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amazon has a $50 tablet and it could be this year's hot holiday gift I'm Bridget Carey this is your CNET update Amazon just released three brand-new tablets and the seven-inch fire model starts at 50 dollars at that price amazon wants you to buy several as gifts and get this you can buy them in a six pack by five fires get the six free gonna think we get to a day where you can sell gadgets and six packs but hey here we are the fire has a 7-inch screen a quad-core processor a camera on the back and the front you can order a kid's edition of this tablet for $100 and with it you get a bumper case and a year of Amazon free time unlimited that's a service that accesses 20,000 age-appropriate websites and YouTube videos and there's a two-year warranty to get it replaced if it breaks also new to the fire family is the Fire HD 8 and Fire HD 10 you're getting better screens and Dolby audio with these models and they come in more colors beyond the basic black the HD 8 comes in pink blue and orange and it starts at a hundred and fifty dollars the 10 inch model comes in white and it costs two hundred and thirty dollars all of these tablets were on Amazon's special operating system based on Android and you'll likely need to buy an extra memory card for more storage to save all your movies music and books the cheapest models only have eight gigs of memory built in and that's not much Amazon is selling the tablets now as pre-orders and they won't be delivered until September 30th that's not the only new thing Amazon refreshed its fire TV box and fire TV stick both devices let you stream video from the Internet to your TV like Netflix the Box cost 100 dollars and has brand new hardware inside with a zippier processor it also supports 4k video also known as Ultra HD of course you'll need a 4k TV to be able to see that higher definition the remote can listen to your voice commands so you can search just by talking and also ask questions like who is that actor or what song is that and it'll display the answer on the screen for an extra 40 dollars there's a gaming Edition that switches out the voice control remote for a video game controller the fire TV can download play android games so the game pack also comes with a 32 gig memory card and two free games shovel knight and ducktales woohoo if you're looking for something more basic there's a fire TV stick it's half the price that $50 comes with The Voice remote I just plug it into the back of your TV with an HDMI port they both ship in October now even though 4k Ultra HD video is hard to come by these days you can take your bragging game up a notch and buy an 8k television sharp is the first to sell an 8k TV and this 85 inch beast can be yours in October for a hundred and thirty three thousand dollars that's it for this tech news update and there's more as cnet.com from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey