Amazon Fire TV

[Kchrpm]

Amazon's streaming video set-top box also includes console-style gaming for $99

http://phandroid.com/2014/04/02/all-...mazon-fire-tv/

Amazon Fire TV is an internet-connected set-top box for your HD television set. The Fire TV brings together your personal media, content from Amazon partners, and Amazon’s large ecosystem of digital goods to provide an all-in-one entertainment package in one powerful little box. The setup includes the box itself and a tiny remote, its seven buttons all that are needed to navigate the simplified main menu to find content and initiate playback, which Amazon boasts will begin instantly — no buffering needed.

[thesameguy]

If it won't stream local content from an SMB share it's useless!

[Kchrpm]

Obviously!

Also YouTube.

[Random]

And MLBtv.

[Random]

Might be able to stream to it using Win8...maybe. WDLive advertises that functionality, which would get around the MLBtv issue.

[KillerB]

So it's like the Kindle Fire - a busted, janky version of an Apple product, but much more reasonably priced.

Except it costs no less than Apple TV. Oh.

[Random]

I thought it compared more with the Roku. They all seem to have a hole in their service, for what I need, though.

[Kchrpm]

Yeah, all of the streaming devices have some service that they are missing. The closest you can get to full coverage at low cost is something like a Chromebox or other cheap desktop OS-based device that has Flash and won't get flagged as a non-allowed device.

[KillerB]

At least with the Apple box (don't know about the others) I can mirror my screen wirelessly from my laptop so if I wanted to do Amazon stuff on my Apple TV, I could.

[Jason]

Neat