The12thGripper
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If Kingdom Hearts Unchained X comes to this, I'll buy one
So it's powered by MT8173 (a SoC of the class of A8) and comes with a controller and expandable storage?
Hey apple, are you taking notes?
On a sidenote, A72's geekbench (@1.57GHz) score is 1698 single-core and 3050 dual-core (link)
At 2GHz that should translate to 2163 single-core and 3885 dual-core. Not bad, not bad.
Processor NVIDIA Tegra X1 processor with 256-core Maxwell GPU with 3GB RAM
Video Features 4K Ultra-HD Ready with 4K playback and capture up to 60 fps (VP9, H265, H264)
Audio Features 7.1 and 5.1 surround sound pass through over HDMI
High-resolution audio playback up to 24-bit/192kHz over HDMI and USB
High-resolution audio upsample to 24-bit/192hHz over USB
Storage 16GB
Wireless 802.11ac 2x2 MIMO 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz Wi-Fi
Bluetooth 4.1/BLE
Interfaces Gigabit Ethernet
HDMI 2.0
Two USB 3.0 (Type A)
Micro-USB 2.0
MicroSD slot (supports 128GB cards)
IR Receiver (compatible with Logitech Harmony)
Gaming Features NVIDIA GRID streaming service
NVIDIA GameStream
Actually, I as reading that the first UHD Blu-Ray player doesn't require HDMI 2.0 or the new HDCP format just to watch the movie, unless you want advanced features like 10-bit color.You're not going to get any film studio content that doesn't require those. It's in the Movielabs requirements.
so how does it compare to the Nvidia Shield TV?
trying to decide from the two, or some other knock off maybe... Any rumors of a new Shield TV to compete with this Amazon Fire TV?
so how does it compare to the Nvidia Shield TV?
trying to decide from the two, or some other knock off maybe... Any rumors of a new Shield TV to compete with this Amazon Fire TV?
Actually, I as reading that the first UHD Blu-Ray player doesn't require HDMI 2.0 or the new HDCP format just to watch the movie, unless you want advanced features like 10-bit color.
Umm...the Shield that came out months ago is far better than this on a hardware level. Only go with this if you're invested in the Amazon ecosystem.
Does anyone know if this will connect to the Amazon Echo in any way? Like can I tell Alexa on Echo to play a movie that the Fire TV then plays?
Then why are people talking shit like Apple dominates this market?
And even if you're invested into their ecosystem, you can still just install Amazon's appstore and media apps on generally any Android device, including the Shield.
I've gotten so many free games from past Amazon promotions, and all of them run on my Nexus tablet that way.
The Fire TV is really great if you're cheap or broke though. Shield is more expensive (albeit totally worth it IMO if you've got the cash)
And even if you're invested into their ecosystem, you can still just install Amazon's appstore and media apps on generally any Android device, including the Shield.
There's no way to transfer an Amazon app that plays 4k video to the Shield, and there probably won't be unless Amazon port it.
I have to think that this will come sooner or later. It's too obvious and Amazon has been really active with supporting the Echo and home automation.
Damn Apple come take this L. The controller, two games and expandable memory for 139 you can't beat that.
This would be great for me if they made it available in Canada.
It's not available here? I'd consider getting one definitely.
If Kingdom Hearts Unchained X comes to this, I'll buy one
4K I'm not interested in until it's actually UHD, though it would be nice for House of Cards. Until then, I would much rather prefer higher bitrate h.265 1080p.
This could be pretty cool. I know Amazon is staffing up in a huge way right now for their games department, so they're definitely taking it seriously at least for now.
Wait, KotOR with a controller?
I want Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic to work with a controller on Steam...
I thought it was recently updated? Or was that 2?
Or am I losing it?
Maybe it was Mass Effect....?
I need a nap.
The OG Xbox version obviously also worked with a controller
Does anyone know if this will connect to the Amazon Echo in any way? Like can I tell Alexa on Echo to play a movie that the Fire TV then plays?
Uh, the article doesn't say that.
The X1 (a >10W chip at full power) beats it in both multi-core CPU and GPU performance (the latter in particularly), but in terms of sustained single-threaded and even dual-threaded performance, the TV should be better. The A72 is the clearly better design in terms of both IPC and power draw compared to the A57 in the X1, so even if the X1 can pull off good results in relatively-short single-core benchmarks, there's a good chance the A57 in the X1 might throttle under conditions where the A72 would happily chug along. Actually, I'd go out on a limb and suggest that the FireTV might be an equal to the X1 for Dolphin, as long as you don't go overboard with video resolution.so how does it compare to the Nvidia Shield TV?
trying to decide from the two, or some other knock off maybe... Any rumors of a new Shield TV to compete with this Amazon Fire TV?
According to this,
https://m.reddit.com/r/fireTV/comments/22bo09/emulator_guide_on_the_firetv/
You can.
Currently you can actually send installed apps from your phone to the Fire TV using a third party app, over wifi, making the sideload process ridiculously simple. There are programs for PC to automatically send files to it over the network as well, so you don't need to muck around with command line stuff (although that's really not that difficult, either). They also support USB storage out of the box, or with root on an older firmware, tho I haven't used the later firmwares that do so I don't know how much control you get over the files (you can always install a file manager regardless of root).That's great, looks like a fair bit of work though.
Not sure I'd trust myself to do it right.
On the Subject of Nvidia Shield TV I'm returning mine for a full refund due to the hard drive fiasco. Then Nvidia support telling me its normal even though a forum post on their boards say it should be replaced.
Thankfully amazon is letting me return it for a full refund, ill be picking the new Fire TV for an Emulator and Streaming Netflix/Prime box.
Really?
Virtually every TV sold in the past year or two has the media playing functionality people need built in.
If it was fun to work on, you should convince Capcom to do a DuckTales 2 Remastered! DuckTales 2 [GB] was my first game ever, I'd certainly appreciate a remake from you guys .I didn't even notice Duck Tales: Remastered on there. That game was so fun to work on.