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Wednesday 02 April 2014 8:42 pm

Amazon to challenge Apple with $99 fire TV

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AMAZON will enter the living room with a video streaming set top box called Fire TV. Chief executive Jeff Bezos described the rival to Apple TV as a: “Tiny box, huge specs, tons of content, incredible price”. It will pipe movies and TV shows directly from Amazon’s video service onto TV. No UK release date was given.

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