The Amazon Fire TV Stick to the conquest of Europe … and rooms … – Clubic

  The Fire TV Stick Amazon in turn crosses the Atlantic to conquer uncharted territory of the hotel rooms.

The Amazon Fire TV Stick Germany and then in the rest of Europe?

Markets media gateway and VOD are increasingly carrying in Europe and it is now the turn of Amazon s’ invest even more. While it was expected that Google launches from one day to the other his TV gateway Nexus Android Player in the UK, it is now the turn of the Amazon HDMI key to cross the Atlantic.

Amazon has indeed announced that the Fire TV Stick for American since its launch in November, is now available in the UK and Germany, where the Fire TV was available.

This is an opportunity to discover the price in euros of this HDMI key. It is sold 40 euros, making it a competitor to the Google front Chromecast 35 euros. For 5 euros more, the Fire TV Stick brings to recall a real remote control and a standalone interface, while the Chromecast depends on a smartphone or tablet.

Accompany consumers to the hotel

Amazon took the opportunity to announce new features, one in particular with which the dealer hand to conquer uncharted territory: the hotel rooms. If there is a situation in which the VOD services and cloud are useful, it is in that of workers and vacationers who sometimes have time to kill on the go, but can not or do not want s’ clutter of electronic equipment.

Now they can take their little Amazon Fire TV Stick with them, connect it to the TV room and connect to the Wi-Fi network of the hotel, with the addition of decision support identification webpages. They can therefore rent videos on Amazon Instant Video, listening to music from Amazon Cloud Music, etc.

The Amazon Fire TV itself is home to the care of installing applications and games on a USB storage device as well as a Bluetooth headset to listen to a program without waking his family.

Amazon Fire TV Stick will be available in Germany and the UK April 15th. Amazon does not provide any other date, but we can expect that its media gateways soon conquer the rest of Europe.

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