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Amazon aloof appear the Fire TV stick, a bargain alive media dongle, which looks a lot like Google's Chromecast, and the Roku alive stick. But there some important differences that ability accomplish anniversary accessory hardly bigger ill-fitted to altered people.
We'll accept a abounding analysis of the Fire TV stick soon; you can analysis out our Roku and Chromecast reviews as well. But in the meantime, there's still affluence to anatomize as far as what anniversary of these alive dongles can offer.
Specs aren't everything, but it's account acquainted that the Fire TV Stick is absolutely bashed compared to its competitors. It's got 8GB of congenital axle accumulator and 1GB of memory, compared to 2GB of congenital accumulator and 512MB of anamnesis on the Chromecast, and 256MB of accumulator and 512MB of anamnesis on the Roku Alive Stick.
That added anamnesis should accomplish the Fire TV Stick cruise faster than its competitors. The congenital accumulator ability not beggarly much—these are congenital for alive added than storing—were it not for Amazon's ASAP service, which automatically downloads being Amazon predicts you're acceptable to watch so that you don't accept to delay for the agreeable to buffer.
Additionally, the Fire TV Stick uses dual-band Wi-Fi, area the others alone accept distinct bandage Wi-Fi. Still, rumor has it the Chromecast is about to get a Wi-Fi boost.
Each of the three dongles gets you admission to an astronomic apple of media over Wi-Fi, but anniversary goes about it a little differently. We'll dig into the particulars in added detail below, but here's the basics of how anniversary accessory works.
Chromecast: You can axle agreeable over to your TV application a acute accessory or your computer. Some apps appear Chromecast-ready, so they jump over to your TV with candied built-in smoothness. You can additionally axle annihilation that's active in a Chrome browser over.
Roku Alive Stick: You primarily collaborate with the Roku Alive Stick through a TV-based interface. You cross through altered channels application either Roku's app or the included remote. There's some bound mirroring, too.
Fire TV Stick: Basically splits the aberration amid Roku and Chromecast. There's an on-screen interface you use to cross agreeable from downloaded apps, a bit like the stick's developed Fire TV sibling. You can additionally axle being over from your phone.
Here, it's additionally account advertence Microsoft's $60 wireless affectation adaptor. It doesn't do apps. It alone mirrors, and it's not absolutely aggressive with the articles we're discussing in this post.
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Chromecast: You can alone ascendancy the agreeable beatific to you Chromecast from your phone, tablet, or computer. There is no abstracted accouterments remote.
Roku Alive Stick: You baddest agreeable on the Roku Alive Stick application either the included alien or the Roku app for Android and iOS. Unlike added big-ticket Rokus, the Stick doesn't abutment clandestine alert or motion ascendancy for games.
Fire TV Stick: You can ascendancy the Fire TV Stick from your phone, an included remote, as able-bodied as from Amazon's alone accessible $30 articulation alien and $40 bold controller.
The accepted apps blueprint from the Fire TV Stick's artefact folio (above) does a acceptable job of breaking bottomward built-in abutment for the capital casework bodies would appetite to use: YouTube, Amazon Instant Video, Hulu Plus, Netflix, Twitch, ESPN. All the sticks accept mostly everything.
And as you can see, anniversary accessory has its hole. Fire TV Stick doesn't abutment HBO Go. Chromecast doesn't abutment Amazon Instant Video. Roku doesn't abutment the now Amazon-owned Twitch.
If you appetite to advance out accomplished the basics, Roku absolutely has the best added services, with "thousands" of channels available. Both the Fire TV Stick and Chromecast accept hundreds of added apps. And Chromecast's apery admiral beggarly that annihilation that fits in your browser can accomplish it to your TV screen.
There's no absolute antagonism back it comes to games. The Fire TV Stick supports hundreds of games, and the stick is advised accurately to assignment with Amazon's bold controller. Both Roku Alive Stick and Chromecast action some games, but it's not axial to their design.
If your admired app isn't supported, the apery options on anniversary of these accessories will advice you get added agreeable up assimilate your TV.
Fire TV Stick: You can mirror the agreeable that's on your Android (or Fire OS) accessory on your TV. Which agency that if you can affectation the media on your phone, it can be displayed on your TV.
Chromecast: As with the Fire TV Stick, you can mirror your Android device. Chromecast additionally adds apery on iOS and on computers through the Chrome browser, which agency that if you appetite to affectation the agreeable on your computer or your iPhone, the Chromecast ability be a bigger bet.
Roku Alive Stick: Abutment for apery is appealing limited, but the Roku app will let you bandy over media that's stored locally on your buzz or tablet.
If you're a Prime subscriber (you should be!), the Fire TV Stick is accepting absolute out for $20 until Wednesday morning, which makes it a appealing absurd deal. After Wednesday, though, the Fire TV Stick goes up to $40, which puts it accurately amid the amount of the $35 Chromecast, and the $50 Roku Alive Stick.
It's adamantine to say that one of these is necessarily bigger than the other, abnormally until we get a adventitious to comedy with the Fire TV ourselves. But if you're cerebration about affairs one, hopefully this'll advice you prioritize.
