{"id":16517,"date":"2016-12-02T14:15:02","date_gmt":"2016-12-02T19:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=16517"},"modified":"2016-12-02T14:15:02","modified_gmt":"2016-12-02T19:15:02","slug":"amazon-fire-tv-stick-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/02\/amazon-fire-tv-stick-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Fire TV Stick 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/joe-steel.com\/2016-11-27-Why-I-Recommend-the-Fire-Stick-2.html\">Joe Rosensteel<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/joe-steel.com\/2016-11-27-Why-I-Recommend-the-Fire-Stick-2.html\">\n<p>Apple doesn&rsquo;t offer anything <em>remotely<\/em> in this price range [$30]. The 3rd generation Apple TV was discounted to $70, and then discontinued this September without any replacement, leaving the $150 4th generation Apple TV as the least expensive streaming device Apple makes. It&rsquo;s also not as portable as an HDMI stick device.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>I certainly think that if you&rsquo;ve been frustrated by trying to AirPlay Amazon Video that you should purchase this, because I don&rsquo;t think hell is going to freeze over any time soon.<\/p>\n<p>If someone isn&rsquo;t an Amazon Prime member, or they want to exclusively use iTunes media, then this isn&rsquo;t a good option. If you want HBO, Netflix, and Prime video with voice search at a relatively inexpensive price-point, then this is the best option, and I would encourage you to consider it before the sale ends.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Rosensteel: Apple doesn&rsquo;t offer anything remotely in this price range [$30]. The 3rd generation Apple TV was discounted to $70, and then discontinued this September without any replacement, leaving the $150 4th generation Apple TV as the least expensive streaming device Apple makes. It&rsquo;s also not as portable as an HDMI stick device. [&#8230;] [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[19,1447,615,1446,227,97],"class_list":["post-16517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-amazon","tag-amazon-prime","tag-apple-tv","tag-fire-tv","tag-netflix","tag-video"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16518,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16517\/revisions\/16518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}