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Amazon Fire TV in, Apple TV and Sony SMP-N200 out

Uncategorised By Oct 26, 2014

The Amazon Fire TV arrived on Friday and immediately replaced both the Apple TV and the Sony network media player in my family room system. One box instead of two, one SMPS instead of two and one ethernet connection instead of two.

The beauty of the Amazon Fire TV box is that I can now easily watch Netflix or Amazon Prime Video without changing inputs on my DAC or TV. Less chance for a macro to go wrong.

Harmony Remote with HubThe Amazon Fire TV is fully controllable from my Harmony Remote with the exception of voice search.  For the convenience of only having one remote control for the whole system, I can live without voice search.

The sound quality seems to be as good as the Apple or the Sony and I think the image quality is better than either. No network glitches or buffering so far so it seems well sorted from a networking point of view, which is a little more than I can say about the Sony.

The screen saver images are also stunning.  Super sharpened but without any MPEG/JPG style artefacts that I can see.

I’ve seen complaints about the menu system, the fact that it favours Amazon products (Duh) but it’s easy to use, works well and in two days I’m used to using it.

Highly recommended.

All for £49 delivered if you have a Prime account.

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