It’s a great addition to your living room even if you already have a smart TV. Should you rush out to upgrade if you already have last year’s Amazon Fire TV box? Probably not, unless you just bought a 4K TV.īut is the new Fire TV box a good video streaming device for $100? Yes, especially if you’re an Amazon Prime Video subscriber. Is it the platonic form of a video streaming box that attaches to your TV? No, it still favors its own Prime video content over most other streaming content providers, and there are other features I don’t love.
The second way to look at the second-generation Amazon Fire TV box is to recognize that it has made significant improvements in key areas - things like processing power, video resolution, and virtual assistance.
In fact, you could look at all of the new video streaming devices announced this fall - Amazon Fire TV, Roku 4, Chromecast 2 and the new Apple TV - and acknowledge, maybe somewhat frustratingly, that the cable box is dying in whimpers but certainly not with a bang. The first is to say that not much has changed from the first Amazon Fire TV box. There are a couple ways to look at the new Fire TV box, the second video-streaming box from Amazon.
