{"id":99940,"date":"2014-04-02T18:00:34","date_gmt":"2014-04-02T16:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=99940"},"modified":"2014-04-02T18:04:15","modified_gmt":"2014-04-02T16:04:15","slug":"99940","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/99940-99940.html","title":{"rendered":"Amazon reveals Fire TV video streaming device"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon.com Inc unveiled a video streaming device dubbed Fire TV on Wednesday that can pipe video directly to television and offers a more prominent showcase for the e-commerce giant&#8217;s slate of original programming.<\/p>\n<p>The device competes directly with Apple TV and Roku 3.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Amazon streaming video, Fire TV will also have content from Netflix, Hulu and others, Amazon executive Peter Larsen said at an event in New York.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s the easiest place to watch Netflix,&#8221; Larsen said. &#8220;You can watch &#8216;Alpha House&#8217; and you can watch &#8216;House of Cards&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Kindle TV has a feature that can predict what the user will watch and cue it up instantly, Larsen said. There is also a microphone in the remote for voice-activated search.<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Deepa Seetharaman)<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gadget news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/99866-samsung-galaxy-tab-4-range-unveiled.html\">Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 range unveiled<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/99692-drones-to-monitor-sa-traffic.html\">Drones to monitor SA traffic<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/99324-facebook-buys-virtual-reality-headset-maker-oculus-vr-for-r21-4-billion.html\">Facebook buys virtual reality headset maker Oculus VR for R21.4 billion<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon unveiled a video streaming device dubbed Fire TV that can pipe video directly to television<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":340871,"featured_media":99942,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[723,24384,7979],"class_list":["post-99940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gadgets","tag-amazon","tag-fire-tv","tag-quicknews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99940"}],"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\/340871"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99940"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99944,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99940\/revisions\/99944"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}