Amazon Announces New Features for Amazon Fire TV and Fire TV Stick
March 24 2015 - 9:00AM
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Amazon Fire TV adds expandable USB storage and
private, wireless listening with Bluetooth headphones
Watch on the go—Fire TV and Fire TV Stick now
support captive portal so you can connect to Wi-Fi at a hotel or
dorm room that requires web authentication
Fire TV Stick now available in the UK and
Germany—Amazon Fire TV already the #1 streaming media box on Amazon
in the UK and Germany
(NASDAQ:AMZN)—Amazon today announced new features are coming to
the best-selling Amazon Fire TV and Fire TV Stick. These features
will be delivered as part of a free, over-the-air software update
in the coming weeks. Amazon also announced today that Fire TV Stick
is now available in the UK and Germany, joining the #1-selling
streaming media box, Amazon Fire TV.
“Customer response to Amazon Fire TV and Fire TV Stick has been
overwhelming—we’ve been working hard to build more of both as
quickly as possible, and we’re excited to be adding new features we
think customers will love,” said Peter Larsen, Vice President,
Amazon Devices. “In the UK and Germany, Fire TV is already the
best-selling streaming media box on Amazon, and we’re thrilled to
be bringing our fastest-selling Amazon device ever—Fire TV Stick—to
the UK and Germany. We think millions of customers in the UK and
Germany are going to love this product.”
New features coming as part of the free, over-the-air software
update include:
- Expandable USB storage on Amazon
Fire TV—You can now use a connected USB mass storage device to
expand your Fire TV storage for downloaded apps and games—this
enables you to have more games downloaded for easy access.
- Connect to your hotel or dorm
room Wi-Fi with captive portal support out of the box—Take
your favorite movies, TV shows, games, and more with you away from
home—Amazon Fire TV and Fire TV Stick are the first streaming media
devices to enable you to connect to Wi-Fi that requires web
authentication—this includes Wi-Fi at most major hotels, as well as
some universities.
- Private listening on Fire
TV—Enjoy favorite movies and TV shows after the kids go to
sleep, without worrying about waking them up. Support for wireless
Bluetooth headphones to Fire TV lets you listen to your movie, TV
show, or music without bothering others in your household.
- Browse and search Prime
Playlists—Prime members can now take advantage of hand-crafted
Prime Music playlists directly from Fire TV and Fire TV Stick—there
are hundreds of expertly curated Prime Playlists to choose from
based on your mood, activity or even artist or decade of
choice.
- Hidden PIN entry—With the new
PIN entry screen that hides the numbers selected, you can now make
sure your kids (or freeloading friends) can’t see your device PIN
as you enter it on-screen to confirm a purchase on Fire TV or Fire
TV Stick.
- New shortcuts—Quickly put your
Fire TV or Fire TV Stick to sleep or enable display mirroring by
pressing and holding the Home button on your remote.
Fire TV and Fire TV Stick are available for purchase at
www.amazon.com/firetv and www.amazon.com/firetvstick. Fire TV Stick
is available to order starting today in the UK and Germany—it will
start shipping on April 15. Learn more at
www.amazon.co.uk/firetvstick and www.amazon.de/firetvstick.
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