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On a streaming device gigabit is superfluous.
Unless it's been added very recently, the PS4 & Xbox One don't have it. It is incoming, though. Just no ETA on when. For being huge on the media front, I'm very surprised it didn't come out of the box. Especially from Sony.
Nice! Are you getting the gaming controllers too? Would love to hear what the "gaming" on this thing looks like.
Gary Busey, that's who!
When it comes right down to it, the primary reason I would never buy this device from Amazon is that I have no interest in encouraging their anti-competitive BS. They still haven't released an Android app for Amazon Video (despite it being an easy thing to do given all their Android-based products), and until they do I won't even consider their hardware. Screw them sideways.
I was about to say that Amazon sells a Sony BDP-S5100 BR (I have it) player for $80 that blows this away.... The Sony doesn't do voice recognition, though--no loss, there... If you have a remote, who needs voice?
http://thewirecutter.com/reviews/the-best-blu-ray-player/
Apple TV is 20.00 cheaper, does everything this does Except Games and Amazon Streaming but if you have an iPad you can share that onto the Apple TV. Competition is good but I think if they priced it cheaper more people would have looked deeper into it myself.
Apple TV is 20.00 cheaper, does everything this does Except Games and Amazon Streaming but if you have an iPad you can share that onto the Apple TV. Competition is good but I think if they priced it cheaper more people would have looked deeper into it myself.
Unless it's been added very recently, the PS4 & Xbox One don't have it. It is incoming, though. Just no ETA on when. For being huge on the media front, I'm very surprised it didn't come out of the box. Especially from Sony.
Your Sony Blu-ray player is a different device and it is a dead end. Fire TV has huge potential and a lot of room for growth.
The first thing to get straight is that this is a very specific issue I have with one company. I'm not an idealogue and instead approach problems one at a time. So, I'm not pretending anything. Anyway...That's just a small sample - so don't buy their products if you don't like them, but let's not pretend that they're the sole proprietor of the lock in/lock out model.
I guess I must have missed all those iTunes Music & Movie apps released for Android.The first thing to get straight is that this is a very specific issue I have with one company. I'm not an idealogue and instead approach problems one at a time. So, I'm not pretending anything. Anyway...
My problem with them wouldn't be as big if Amazon didn't offer their service on other platforms (most notably, IOS devices). In other words, if they said, "hey, we're making tablets over here, so only our tablets will have Amazon Video," I'd find that very annoying but understandable. Instead, the route they've chosen is to very specifically screw over non-Kindle/Fire Android tablet users despite allowing IOS tablet users and using Android as the basis of their own tablet OS.
I consider their position on this both unreasonable and counterproductive. Unreasonable because they could make an Android app available tomorrow if they wanted (I wouldn't be surprised if they keep an in-house version up to date on the off chance that the policy changes, and even if they don't we're talking an Android->Android port). It's counterproductive because when they sell their tablets (and now this device), they're not looking for significant (if any) profit from the hardware but instead are looking for users to buy and rent content. What kind of sense does it make to tell a large segment of the market to give their money to some other company?
So the idea here is to make up for the shortcomings in roku, which is a little bit slow and underpowered. Yes once you get your stream up it's fine, but browsing and loading performance is a bit laggy at times, even on the best roku. They feel with a slick polished android interface running on solid hardware you will have an experience very similar to browsing content on your high-end smart phone. This is where chromecast comes in, which basically says your cellphone already makes for the best universal remote, so lets just let the cellphone control everything. In doing so, they were able to ship a device for $35 that is already familiar to you since everyone knows their cellphone UI like the back of their hand.
Unreasonable because they could make an Android app available tomorrow if they wanted
You can stream the Amazon Prime app from your iPad to Apple TV, iOS just doesnt have the stupid Amazon Prime app on there STB, if they did they could almost nulify Fire TV, plus Apple TV hasnt been upgraded in 2 years so I expect Apple to come out with something newer this year to impress I hope.
I'd buy 3 right now if it had DLNA. Why do so many new devices not include it?
I can almost forgive Amazon for neglecting Apple TV because a) the device is sold (and bought) pretty much as an iTunes extender and b) Apple barely seems to care about it themselves. Roku, on the other hand, has been pretty aggressive with upgrading their boxes and those boxes are open to virtually any streaming a person wants to do, to such an extent that their system is open to be programmed by anyone.You can stream the Amazon Prime app from your iPad to Apple TV, iOS just doesnt have the stupid Amazon Prime app on there STB, if they did they could almost nulify Fire TV, plus Apple TV hasnt been upgraded in 2 years so I expect Apple to come out with something newer this year to impress I hope.