The company said that it did not intend the Fire TV to compete with gaming consoles instead, its gaming capabilities were geared toward people who did not already own a console but may play games on a smartphone or tablet.
Included with the box is a Bluetooth remote control with a microphone for voice search.
According to Amazon, the Fire TV was designed to outpace competitors like the Apple TV and Roku in performance: the 0.72-inch-thick box featured a 1.7 GHz quad-core CPU ( Qualcomm Snapdragon 8064), 2 GB of RAM and 8 GB of internal storage, along with a MIMO dual-band radio for 1080p streaming over 802.11a/b/g/n Wi-Fi and a 10/100 Ethernet connection and USB 2.0 port.
Codenamed "Bueller", after the eponymous character from Ferris Bueller's Day Off, it offered HDMI audio, with support for Dolby Digital Plus 7.1 surround sound pass-through, if the user's Internet bandwidth was sufficient.
The first Fire TV was made available for purchase in the US on the same day of the April 2014 announcement for US$99 and was launched with a video game called Sev Zero.
įire TV hardware Original model First generation In September 2018, Amazon extended the use of the Fire TV brand to the Fire TV Recast, an over-the-air television digital video recorder exclusively for viewing use with Fire TV and Amazon Echo Show devices. In March 2016, Amazon began collaborating with television set manufacturers to include the Amazon Fire OS and Fire TV interface built-in with televisions sold to the public, labeled as Fire TV Edition. The second-generation version was released in 2015, with additional Fire TV devices released on regular basis since. The first-generation Fire TV device was unveiled on April 2, 2014. The current set-top box model is the Fire TV Cube with embedded Amazon Echo smart speaker (which effectively replaced the Fire TV box model ), while the stick form factor encompasses three models, the entry-level Fire TV Stick Lite, the standard Fire TV Stick, and the high-end Fire TV Stick 4K (the last of which effectively replaced the third-generation Fire TV with 4K Ultra HD "pendant" ). The device is available in two form factors, set-top box and HDMI plug-in stick with, in general, lesser specifications than the contemporaneous boxes. They also allow users to access local content and to play video games with the included remote control or another game controller, or by using a mobile app remote control on another device. The devices are small network appliances that deliver digital audio and video content streamed via the Internet to a connected high-definition television.
Roku, Apple TV, Chromecast, Nvidia Shield TV, OuyaĪmazon Fire TV at a retail store in Canada.Īmazon Fire TV (stylized as amazon fireTV) is a line of digital media players and microconsoles developed by Amazon. Qualcomm Krait 300, quad-core up to 1.7 GHz (1st generation) ĭual-core ARM Cortex-A72 up to 2 GHz and dual-core ARM Cortex-A53 up to 1.573 GHz (2nd generation)ĭolby Digital Plus 7.1 surround sound