Amazon Fire TV & Amazon Fire TV Stick
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Available Models
Now with Alexa, use your Fire TV Voice Remote to check sports scores or the weather, play music, and more - instantly. The Amazon Fire TV Voice Remote has a built-in mic so you can instantly search TV shows, movies, actors, and genres using just your voice—no more typing with your remote to find what you want. Voice search is supported for the entirety of Amazon’s video, music, app, and game catalog, plus for Hulu, HBO GO, Crackle, Showtime, and Starz. Please note that voice search does not work directly inside individual applications, like Netflix.
The Fire TV and The Fire TV Stick are similar in many ways, but in some they differ. The biggest difference is the Fire TV is a console while the Fire TV Stick is a HDMI Plug-In, a smaller more portable device. Some of the differences with the Fire TV and the Fire TV Stick includes the processors that are used and the internal memory. The Fire TV uses a quad core processor and has 2 GB of memory and in the Fire TV Stick, there's a dual core processor and 1 GB of internal memory.
Within the Amazon Fire TV Family, you have 2 models- The Fire TV and The Fire TV Stick, each with its' own available upgrade. The upgraded version of the Fire TV is the Amazon Fire TV Gaming Edition and the upgrade for the Fire TV Stick comes with the new Voice Remote. The Gaming Edition comes with the Fire TV console, the Fire TV Game Controller, two games, and a 32 GB microSD card for expanded storage and the bundle also includes two games, Shovel Knight and Disney DuckTales.
The Fire TV Stick with Voice Remote along with its' ability to search for movies, TV shows and more with the sound of your voice has the new Alexa feature, Amazons version of Siri which adapts to your content preferences, answers questions, and recognizes speech patterns.
The last upgrade is new Fire TV and HD Antenna Bundle which includes the Fire TV console, the Voice Search Remote and the AmazonBasics Ultra Thin Indoor HDTV Antenna (35-mile), and an AmazonBasics HDMI cable - 6 Feet.
Now it's safe to say that the upgrades are really just optional accessories being that you can purchase each individually:
Fire TV Stick
Fire TV Console
Number of Channels
With the Amazon Fire TV and Fire Stick, you will get access to over 4,000 channels, apps, and games including access to over 250,000 TV episodes and movies on Netflix, Amazon Video, HBO GO, Hulu, and much more.
Supports 4K Ultra HD TVs
The Amazon Fire TV now supports 4K Ultra HD TVs, delivering true-to-life picture quality that will change your viewing experience. You can still watch high-definition 1080p streams on Amazon Video, Netflix, Hulu and more, even without a 4K TV.
Powerful Processors
The Fire TV model comes with a Quad core processor while the Fire TV Stick has a Dual core processor and both are pretty much powerful in their own right.
The Fire TV comes with the Quad core processor that has 75% more processing power, a dedicated graphics engine, better Wi-Fi support, 2 GB of memory, 8 GB of storage and expandable storage of up to 128 GB. The Fire TV Stick has 1 GB of memory, 8 GB of storage, dual-core processor, a dedicated VideoCore4 GPU
Gaming
With over 800 games - the most games of any other streaming media player - there is something for the entire family, including Minecraft, Lego Star Wars, and Pac-Man 256
Alexa, The brain behind Amazon TV
The more you use Alexa the smarter it gets. Built in the cloud, Alexa adapts to your speech patterns, vocabulary, and personal preferences. Look out for new voice service features being released all the time.
Now you can use Alexa, the brain behind Echo, on your Amazon Fire TV. Alexa, a cloud-based voice service answers questions, plays music, checks sports scores or the weather, and more—instantly. Just ask Alexa using your Fire TV Voice Remote.
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