After several months of waiting, the UK is finally getting the Amazon Fire TV and it sounds pretty good. It'll be released here on the 23rd October 2014 for £79.00 although if you preorder before Monday 8th September and you are an Amazon Prime subscriber, you can get it for £49.00!
The Fire TV will feature full integration with the Amazon online services such as Prime Video, Amazon Cloud Drive and Amazon Music as well as access to several apps from the Amazon App Store which includes hundreds of games, video, music and news apps amongst other things.
Netflix and Plex are also supported so you won't be limited to Amazon's streaming services.
An option game controller can be bought for £34.99 and will be required to play certain games on the system although some games will still work with the included remote control.
The Fire TV is more powerful than its main rivals, the Apple TV and Google Chromecast offering a Quad core processor and 2GB RAM. The system also offers a dedicated GPU so games should play smoothly.
I'll be making an unboxing and review video once the device is released in October, in the meantime checkout my preview on YouTube:
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