News - Amazon introduces the Fire TV Stick for $39

[HEXUS]

New and existing Prime members can buy this HDMI stick for $19 until tomorrow.

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[3dcandy]

Wonder if it will sell any better than the Fire phone

[virtuo]

Wonder if it will sell any better than the Fire phone

I'm sure at the discounted price at least 10 people will be fooled in to buying one.

So, yes.

[bae85]

I'd rather get that new Intel HDMI stick...

[Tpyo]

I'd rather get that new Intel HDMI stick...

I suspect you'd struggle to pick one of those up for £20

Re: The stick - I can see a market for it. Much like apple products/Microsoft products/nexus products tend to work/play beautifully together, just not with each other, this adds to the amazon ecosystem. If you have any other fire devices, there is a strong argument to stick with them (as for the others in turn). Unfortunately for Amazon, their biggest (visible - I have no idea of financials) success is the kindle, so it is hard to leverage that into helping sales of their other devices. On the other hand, (and especially now Google seems to want to move into the more premium space), if you consider their competitors to be lower priced but mainstream devices and services like the Blinkbox, then you're pitching a Kindle fire + Amazon prime videos against a Hudl and Blinkbox. This sort of device (increasing access to APV and working well with the kindle fire) is then a big potential leg-up against the competition.

Personally I'd not want anything tied in quite so much to a specific marketplace/restrictive on what I can do, but I see a lot of potential for e.g. my parents.

[abaxas]

Does it come with the 'annoying patronizing Irish woman' help system?

[Spud1]

I'd buy one to go with prime, but I do wish I could have one stick that did them all. It's a bit ridiculous, since I end up needing:

1) DLNA streaming for most video files (to XBO, then into Amp so I can get 5.1)
2) Raspberry Pi for anything in a none-microsoft format
3) Chromecast for Netflix + android screen mirroring
4) Amazon Stick for Prime TV/Movies

Why can't there be just one device to deal with all of this? It's mad.

Not that we can buy this stick anyway since it's US only. I would part with $19+tax for one..

Does it come with the 'hot Irish woman' help system?

Fixed for you

[Brewster0101]

I'd buy one to go with prime, but I do wish I could have one stick that did them all. It's a bit ridiculous, since I end up needing:

1) DLNA streaming for most video files (to XBO, then into Amp so I can get 5.1)
2) Raspberry Pi for anything in a none-microsoft format
3) Chromecast for Netflix + android screen mirroring
4) Amazon Stick for Prime TV/Movies

Buy an LG smart Bluray Player or TV. Perfect DLNA support, Netflix and Amazon TV built in.

Can't with the Pi replacement though.

[Spud1]

Buy an LG smart Bluray Player or TV. Perfect DLNA support, Netflix and Amazon TV built in.

Sadly its not the receiving end thats the problem DLNA wise - Windows doesn't seem able to push certain codecs over DLNA so you have to faff about with the browser built into the TV, which is just painful. There are workarounds - e.g. I could let my NAS index it all and act as a media server, but again it's just faff. Much quicker and easier to just plug in the PI and do it with XBMC.

Getting HDMI ARC to work properly so you can get 5.1 sound is another issue, although chrome cast struggles with 5.1 as it is and that goes directly into the amp, so hey ho.