No thread on this yet that I can see.
I recently took out Prime cos im a student and its cheap. Im looking forward to the one day delivery but one of the perks was the Lovefilm/Amazon Instant Prime TV or whatever its called now. Whatever it is, its not Netflix, which is fair enough, its still decent.
Now however, Amazon are offering Amazon Fire TV, which appears to be an android box similar to Apple TV. It supports XBMC and Plex, which means it plays mkv files etc. They have it on offer for prime members, even trial members i believe, for £49 until monday.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/ref=nav_prmlogo
I would like a media streamer that a non tech savvy person can use, my own setup is a little complex as you have to use about 4 remotes, switch between inputs on the Amp, then negotiate either windows 8.1 with xbmc or the popcorn hour menu, or xbox one menu...
which for me is fine, no issue with it at all, but for any guests to the house is a bit much. I've got a panasonic unit which wont stream mkv files, will play them just nicely from USB, but wont stream them. I could relocate the popcorn hour but its a pita to get things from shared folders over the network as it wont recognise domains, only workgroups. Tempted to get a chromecast and see how that goes, but was debating this.
Thoughts and Opinions, theres plenty being said about it on HDUK atm, but as always I'd like the Hexus think tank to offer opinions.
Its not a definite purchase by any means, its not a necessity, just another gadget for me to play with really, and I may just drop it regardless of how good people think it is, but its new tech, or at least a new brand and should be discussed