

On the one hand, the Fire TV Cube has a built-in infrared blaster, so you can use Alexa voice commands to control the volume of the TV, A/V receivers, Soundbar and other devices with infrared equipment as well. Fire TV Cube versus Fire TV Plus-Echo If you already have a Fire TV device and an echo device, they support many of the same voice commands as the Fire TV cube, but all in one package has some advantages. On the other hand, it helps refrain from those bells and whistles Amazon to help undermine the Apple TV 4k and Shield TV while it focuses on handsfree speech control as a distinctive feature.įire TV Cube is essentially an echo-point speaker grafted into a streaming video box, with a distant field mic array and a built-in low-quality speaker that can respond to voice commands when the TV is turned off. The Fire TV Cube provides a micro-USB port for Remote Storage and the included Ethernet adapter, but there is no full-size port. And like the Fire TV pendant, the cube in 2015 actually has less processing power than the second generation of Fire TV, so it doesn’t feel as sensitive when scrolling through menus or applications. The Fire TV Cube has a micro-USB port for the supplied Ethernet adapter and Remote Storage, although for the latter it is likely to require a different adapter or cable than the adapter that comes with your hard drive. And unlike the latter, the cube does not have full-size USB ports for hard drives, TV tuners, and other accessories. Unlike the first Fire TV Cube does not support Dolby Vision HDR, which allows color and contrast per frame to be optimized for TVs that support the format. It’s a bit disappointing that Amazon doesn’t use the Fire TV cube as an opportunity to deliver a faster, more complete streaming box for e.g. Both devices also support playback of HDR 4k video, Dolby Atmos Surround Sound, Bluetooth 4.2 (mainly for game controllers and headphones) and 802.11 Wi-Fi AC.

It is powered by the same 1.5 GHz Quad-Core processor and 2GB of RAM but has a dual internal storage capacity of 16 GB. Internally, the Fire TV Cube is similar to the Fire TV-pendant that Amazon launched last fall. New Look, new technology, the same specifications Amazon Fire TV Cube review: Clean hardware, but Alexa needs more tuning
