Amazon’s new Fire TV device and software aims to offer gaming and streaming content on your front room television.

At a different event Wednesday, Amazon finally revealed the small black box it has been engaged on to fit underneath your lounge television: The $99 Amazon Fire TV, that’s available now.

With Fire TV, the corporate says that it was trying to solve numerous issues of similar devices, including search and function issues, coupled with closed ecosystems. “How can we make the complexity disappear?” the corporate asked, and Fire TV is outwardly the reply.

According to Amazon, the fireplace TV comes with a quad-core processor and a dedicated GPU, the type that you would usually find in smartphones. It has 2GB of RAM, dual-band Wi-fi, and it’s roughly .7-inch thin — shorter than a dime, as demonstrated during its unveiling. It also comes with a handheld remote control which might be controlled together with your voice via a microphone.

The Fire TV is able to streaming content at resolutions of as much as 1080p and supports HDMI and optical audio-out, so it may support as much as 7.1 Dolby Digital Plus surround sound. Fire TV is predicated on Android and HTML, and Amazon says that a “huge selection” of apps and games are already at the way for the device.

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