Mike Wuerthele
Amazon appears to be on the cusp of announcing a pair of new streaming devices, with both capable of 4K resolution at 60 frames per second.
According to a report on Monday from AFTVnews, one form is a dongle similar to the Google Chromecast. The second is a cube-shaped device with far-field microphones, a built-in speaker, and a LED indicator — granting the device the abilities of the Amazon Echo Dot.
The Fire TV with the dongle form factor won't replace the existing Fire TV Stick, which will reportedly remain in the product lineup. It will be relatively unadorned, with only the HDMI plug, and a micro USB port for power.
Previous leaks peg the processor in the device as the ARM Mali-450 MP. Performance on it is still less than either the first or second generations of the Fire TV streaming box.
The higher-end cube-shaped device does not have a leaked benchmark, and as such, specific performance details are not known.
The dongle form-factor device is expected to debut in September, and ship in October. AFTVnews predicts a selling price between $60 and $80. The higher end device is expected to be released before the end of 2017, and sell for more than $100.
A new Apple TV with 4K support is expected at Tuesday's iPhone reveal event. According to the leaked iOS 11 build, users will need a stable 15Mbps connection to stream 4K, 60 frames-per-second content on the next-generation Apple TV.
As of yet, the promised Amazon Prime Video app has not made an appearance on the Apple TV.
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Surprise, surprise.
I hope the next Fire TV comes with more internal memory than the current models. My Kodi/PLEX setup has just about eaten all of the memory space on my Fire TV. Those thumbnails take up a lot of memory space.
Whatever Apple can do, Jeff Bezos will make sure Amazon can do it better. That's why Amazon is valued so highly despite lack of profits. A CEO who hates to lose can really push a company to always win. Greedy investors love companies that destroy other companies. That's why Amazon is constantly praised for everything it does.
Oh!, talking in hindsight.
It's OK. Easier to say in hindsight.
So very very underpowered... yep, amazon sure produce quality heh
basically dump near crap like most of their products
stfu sog, you are annoying in your prescient hindsight that ignores actual reality of any kind