The New Amazon Fire TV Does 4K and Voice Commands For Just $100

[froggyboy604]

We decided not to mess with what’s working,” says Amazon devices VP Peter Larsen. That’s why his new Fire TV looks exactly the same. But inside this tiny box, you’ll find components powerful enough to stream 4K movies. It’s one more impulse buy from the kings of online shopping.

Let’s dispose of the tech specs first. According to Amazon, the new Fire TV has a new quad-core, 64-bit MediaTek processor and a dedicated GPU, for 75% faster performance and twice the graphical muscle under the hood. It’s got 2x2 802.11ac MIMO wifi to keep those 4K streams flowing, and HEVC decoding so even your 1080p streams can look better.

There’s a microSD card slot to boost the storage up to 128GB (it comes with just 8GB) for apps and games.

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This does look like a good TV settop box. But, it is too bad that it comes only with 8GB of internal space for apps, and games.

 

[Demon_Skeith]

Very nice, but that 8GB is going to choke it.

 

[froggyboy604]

Very nice, but that 8GB is going to choke it.

Hopefully, Amazon will make the MicroSD card be able to add Apps to MicroSD, and USB External storage so people can install their Apps and games to a larger 128 GB MicroSD Card or a USB 1TB or larger External hard drive instead of only relying on the 8GB of space for apps and games.