The devices are small community appliances that deliver digital audio and video content streamed by way of the Internet to a connected excessive-definition tv. In addition they enable users to access local content material and to play video video games with the included distant management or another recreation controller, or by using a cellular app remote control on one other device. Additionally, Amazon licenses the Fire OS and Fire Tv interface to be embedded and constructed into sure television units from third events bought to the general public, labeled as Fire Tv Edition. The primary Fire Tv was made available for purchase within the US on the identical day of the April 2014 announcement for US$ninety nine and was launched with a video game referred to as Sev Zero. HDMI audio, with help for Dolby Digital Plus 7.1 surround sound go-by, if the person's Internet bandwidth was ample. According to Amazon, the Fire Tv was designed to outpace competitors like the Apple Tv and Roku in efficiency: Flixy Stick official the 0.72-inch-thick field featured a 1.7 GHz quad-core CPU (Qualcomm Snapdragon 8064), 2 GB of RAM and 8 GB of inside storage, together with a MIMO dual-band radio for 1080p streaming over 802.11a/b/g/n Wi-Fi and a 10/one hundred Ethernet connection and USB 2.Zero port.

Included with the field is a Bluetooth distant management with a microphone for voice search. The company said that it didn't intend the Fire Flixy TV Stick to compete with gaming consoles