News - Amazon Fire TV UK launch set for 23rd October

[HEXUS]

The set-top box is available to buy now for £79, or £49 for Amazon Prime members.

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[Odeas]

If you don't have Amazon Prime, taking out the 30 day trial will let you buy it at the £49 price.
Cancelling the trial will not cause you to pay the higher £79 price.

This has been confirmed by Amazon to a user on another site I visit.

Looks like a good unit, can be rooted, have the google play store loaded on to it, xbmc, sideload apk's, use a 360 controller with it etc. Very tempted!

[Hicks12]

I preordered as soon as I saw the prime discount, for only 20 quid more than the Chromecast you get something that doesn't require a mirrored source (albeit at a larger footprint). I have a chrome cast already but this had me sold as you can install the play store on it (check XDA before turning on as I think you need to root before allowing updates).

I have the student prime and its cheaper than before yet has amazing instant, I've actually used it more than netflix now so I have found it useful however the annoying thing is that it is not on android (except Amazon's fork of android) so I haven't been able to use on the tablet nor on my TV so this will be a worthy work around.

Curious how the device performs with Amazon instant as I find the desktop web player is terrible. I have huge lag spikes (even mouse lags... Hard) while it buffers initially and then a lot of the time the resume playback buffers correctly then goes all the way back to the start! Sometimes it even gets stuck in a buffer loop, it uses silver light so I expected silky smooth performance like Netflix, my 2500k at 4.5ghz m4 ssds and 7950 should not struggle lol!

[Noxvayl]

I'll use the good old fashion HTPC for my viewing needs but my parents need something like this to bring them into the 21st century. Still pay Sky for movies and a ridiculous amount of other things they have no need for.

[Jonj1611]

I dont know how many more set top boxes my TV stand can handle!