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this is Dancy for with the verge and we're looking at Amazon's new fire TV home entertainment box this is a very similar box to something like you might be familiar with a Roku or an Apple TV it's about a five inch square device very simple looking very monolithic simple ports on the back for USB Ethernet you got your optical audio out and HDMI and power and inside it's got a quad core processor two gigs of RAM Wi-Fi connectivity and bluetooth connectivity but other than that that's the hardware the box you actually use this box with this wireless remote which talks to it through bluetooth it's got a simple circular up-down left-right basic controls and this voice search button which we'll take a look at in a minute optionally you can add the game controller to the system which will let you play games gives you a very similar experience to might you have on a Playstation or an Xbox with the dual joysticks trigger buttons here on the back wireless controller that's going to sell as a separate price for about 39.99 we've got a very fast fluid interface that Amazon is using it looks very similar to the Amazon fire tablets interface if you've used a Fire HD or anything like that before you got access to movies TV you access your Amazon Prime watchlist all your video library there's games on here like we mentioned earlier some really impressive graphics that we saw during the demos earlier of asphalt 8 and an amazon published game called 7-0 then you've got different apps which you can access as well you can access your Amazon Cloud photos too everything is very fast responsive Amazon is positioning this as a high performance version of a home entertainment system we're not going to expect the lag that we see on other devices like a Roku or other things that frequently can be frustrating to use just because they're not as slow and responsive one of the things that they're doing to make it easier to use at home is the voice search with the remote so you can do things like Ender's Game Ender's Game let's try to forget them duck dynasty there you go it does very quick voice type of search so you can pull up things without having to type in anything into the screen itself which makes your life a lot easier when you're at home on your couch in your living room Amazon is actually selling that's starting today the price of the box is $99.99 and as mentioned earlier you can get the optional game controller for $39.99