{"id":263639,"date":"2018-06-07T15:46:05","date_gmt":"2018-06-07T13:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=263639"},"modified":"2018-06-07T15:50:37","modified_gmt":"2018-06-07T13:50:37","slug":"amazon-fire-tv-cube-unveiled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/263639-amazon-fire-tv-cube-unveiled.html","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Fire TV Cube unveiled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon has unveiled its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20180607005636\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Fire TV Cube<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 a hands-free 4K Ultra HD streaming media player with Alexa built in.<\/p>\n<p>The Fire TV Cube uses multi-directional infrared technology, cloud-based protocols, and HDMI CEC for entertainment equipment control.<\/p>\n<p>These technologies, combined with Alexa, mean that users can control their TV, sound bar, and decoder with voice commands.<\/p>\n<p>Using Alexa\u2019s voice controls, users can switch their TV on and off, change the volume, switch inputs, and change the channel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven with the TV off, simply say Alexa, play Billions on Showtime and Fire TV Cube powers on your TV and starts playback right where you left off,\u201d said Amazon.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon Fire TV Cube also uses far-field voice recognition with eight microphones to ensure Alexa clearly hears requests from across a room.<\/p>\n<p>Advanced beam-forming technology combines the signals from the individual microphones to suppress noise, reverberation, content currently playing, and competing speech.<\/p>\n<p>The Amazon Fire TV Cube is available for pre-order for $119.99, and ships with an IR extender cable and Ethernet adapter.<\/p>\n<p>Shipping starts on 21 June 2018.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_T_3ma9FFDw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/263621-amazons-premier-league-soccer-push.html\">Amazon\u2019s Premier League soccer push<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon&#8217;s Fire TV Cube makes it easy to use Alexa to find your favourite shows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":263643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[723,51467,51469],"class_list":["post-263639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-amazon","tag-amazon-fire-tv-cube","tag-fire-tv-cube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263639"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":263645,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263639\/revisions\/263645"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}