Amazon has presented a new equipment with which to control everything related to multimedia. Its about Amazon Fire TV Cube, a new device that intends to subtract market share from Apple TV and that is an interesting combination between an Amazon Echo and an Amazon Fire TV Stick.
Before we start to tell you what this Amazon Fire TV Cube offers us, we will tell you that in the coming months the availability of Alexa in other countries such as Spain has already been confirmed. Therefore, although at first nothing is said about the availability of this equipment outside the United States, it is very possible with the arrival of Alexa in Spain throughout 2018, the Amazon Fire TV Cube also lands in these lands . All of the above said, let's continue with the launch of Jeff Bezos' company.
The Amazon Fire TV Cube is an interesting device for streaming of contents. Likewise, in addition to being able to offer your own content through the video-on-demand platform, you can also we can listen to music and even use it as a smart speaker since it has the virtual assistant Alexa.
The latter means that we can request certain actions through voice commands that will allow us to have control of the equipment without having our hands busy with different remote controls. On the other hand, this Amazon Fire TV Cube has HDR and Dolby Atmos technology support, something that we will appreciate when we watch a movie in the living room and receive clear and surround sound.
As connections, the new Amazon team It has WiFi, different IR sensors and HDMI-CEC connection —The latter to be able to use Alexa with voice commands and can act on the television, for example. Likewise, the different IR sensors that this Amazon Fire TV Cube has is to be able to control other equipment in the room through it. That is to say, be able to function as the brain of the living room at all times.
Finally, to the more technical aspects of this Amazon Fire TV Cube we can tell you that features 2GB of RAM, 16GB of internal storage, and a 1,5GHz quad-core ARM processor working frequency. Meanwhile, the sales package includes several IR extenders and an Ethernet to USB adapter in case we want the connection via cable.
As a note, Amazon Fire TV Cube not only works with its Amazon Prime Video platform, but also We can also control our HBO account, Netflix and some other service. By the way, Amazon has acquired the rights to broadcast the English football league through its service, The Premier. And the rumors bet that They are interested with seizing the rights of the Spanish LaLiga.
The price of this Amazon TV Fire Cube is $ 119, although Prime users will have a promotion available during the first 30 days in which they can get this device with a discount of $ 30 on the original price.
