A new challenger has arrived, Amazon's Fire TV!

[Plainview]

Everyone is forgetting about the Juggernaut in waiting..... Apple. It's strongly rumored to be coming out with an Apple TV just like the Fire TV.

 

[jimmyD]

If Amazon and Google (specifically Google) were to enter the console market I have bad news for Nintendo and possibly Sony. Microsoft I think has the funds to hang, but the big N and Sony might not be so lucky. Will be interesting to see. That is of course assuming they jump in to the console market "for real". By that I mean an actual gaming console and not some device that runs Android like the Ouya.

QFT if Sony goes down it could also hurt MS since the sony fans would obviously blame MS for it and jump on the Google box. They would love to jump into the space and make money unlike the mountain of money MS had to lose when they jumped in with the original xbox against sony, nintendo and Sega(I think Sega said "we gone" when MS announced the xbox though?) They won't want to compete against Sony, MS, Nintendo, Amazon, Apple...

 

[Plainview]

I've paid zero on shipping at Amazon. The Amazon Prime for shipping is a sucker's deal because just using the standard free shipping with $29 or $39 order arrives in about 3-4 days anyway, and that's factoring in an extra day if it comes from a US distribution centre to Canada.

I bet most US customers using standard free shipping get it faster than me.

I get about half my items next day for free with Amazon Prime. Two day shipping is free and about half the time it arrives next day.

 

[Kvally]

I don't have Prime, and I always get free shipping on Amazon. Never takes long either.

 

[TeKPhaN]

No 4K streaming-
No HBO GO(and a few other services)-
Prime is overpriced-
Fire is overpriced-
Pass for now....maybe when they re-release a hotter Fire I will reconsider.

 

[TeKPhaN]

Looks like Amazon is also taking shots at Sony/Microsoft:

That is against a much better Xbox they are referring to.

 

[Variance]

4k Streaming? Say goodbye to your bandwidth.


ROFL