Amazon has already launched 99 dollars Fire TV box set which was the first streaming media player from the company and now it has already released Fire TV stick. The Fire TV stick is expected to be the competitor of ChromeCast from Google.
The fire TV stick is going to cost only 39 dollars which is 4 dollars more compared to Google ChromeCast. Prime subscribers off Amazon may pre-order the app at 19 dollar. With TV Stick, the users will be able to stream Netflix, Spotify, Hulu or Amazon Prime Instant Video to the television screens. If you are not sure of the right one to buy, then CNET has done a breakdown of the two streaming devices.
Price
Google ChromeCast is being sold at a reasonable price of 35 dollars while Fire TV is sold at 39Dollars. However, for a limited period, the Amazon Prime Users may order Fire TV at 19 dollars.
Storage
Fire TV of Amazon needs to use twice the internal storage compared to ChromeCast which is 8GB with RAM of 1GB. ChromeCast has flash storage of 2GB which is built in with 512 for RAM.
Internet
The Fire TV Stick requires the user to have Dual Band WiFi while the ChromeCast uses only the Single-band Wi-Fi.
The Fire TV of Amazon also has a remote to use, instead of having to use the smartphone on the ChromeCast so that you may surf the channels. The Fire TV Remote has a voice search feature and this is the same as the voice search engine of Amazon Fire TV. This means that the user may say the name of the movie, director, genre, actor or TV show and the menu will come. The remote is not the same as the one found with Fire TV since this is sold at its own at 30 dollars at Computer World.
If you want to know more about the cons and pro, then visit CNET.com. The Amazon Fire TV is supposed to start shipping since November 19 but now it is in back order. Amazon said that because of popular demand, the orders that are being placed today, they may reach the customers after January 15 of 2015. The devices are going to be shipped early for the people who have pre-ordered this.
You may never be interested to know if the Fire TV of Amazon is successful or not because now, there is its small brother called Fire TV stick. Google did something good about the ChromeCast since every other manufacturer is doing its best to have devices to compare with it. The current Fire TV of Amazon is interesting but it only uses Amazon files on a device. Even if Fire TV is a good little box, it is now clear that smartphone integration and pricing are the features that are critical to many users who are interested in buying Chromecast Platform. This is why a new tactic was required for Amazon and the Fire TV stick was developed. In addition of these, Amazon Fire TV Stick has a better hardware compared to ChromeCast, a physical remote control with dual antenna Wi-Fi and Dual band.