I didn’t ask for games. I didn’t ask for photos. I asked for a streaming media solution that could do things right: Something easy to pick up, simple to use, and something that actually made the experience of playing and navigating through multimedia, dare I say it, fun.
Amazon promised all of the above with Fire TV, which the company unveiled Wednesday at an event in New York City. Unfortunately, the device doesn’t live up to its own hype. Perhaps Amazon’s homegrown solution was a bit premature and its ambitions too lofty, because while Fire TV can do almost everything, little of it is done right.
Ouch.
It’s funny watching this guy talk about “free” content. Almost nothing he mentions is actually free. The part he seems to miss is that for anything but the cheesiest YouTube videos, everyone is paying someone (have you noticed that ABC now requires a cable subscription to watch current episodes, WITH ADS, on it’s OWN website?). The only question is whom.
When you ask that question, it suddenly makes a lot of sense why Amazon doesn’t make it easy for you to find content on a platform that you pay someone else for when Amazon sells/streams it themselves.
A lot of sites are calling FireTV an AppleTV killer but really it isn’t. One cause all the reviews are like this one, saying it doesn’t do what it promises very well. And two cause it’s just another ecosystem all together. Folks that are invested in the whole Amazon Prime etc system aren’t generally also heavily invested in the iTunes one. Which is why the Apple TV is a no go for them. For their sakes I wish the FireTV had debuted stronger. Perhaps version two will nail it since it’s highly unlikely Apple will ever court Amazon to be added to the Apple TV
No jokes on that. I rather like that ABC is giving me the option to watch shows as they air cause I have cable but the whole ads etc even in paid Hulu accounts I can do without. Or at least make it one ad or block of say these ads right off the top and let me watch it straight through.