Fire TV is great if you’re deep into Amazon Prime — and don’t have a separate sound system

The next contender in the end-of-the-year living room set-top battle royal has appeared, and it’s a tiny box hailing from Amazon. The product’s name? The Fire TV (available now, with the regular edition $100 and the gaming edition $140).

The online retailer has actually been pushing two Fire TV boxes for the past few years: the compact Fire TV Stick, which is a small HDMI dongle that acts much like a USB stick, and the more traditional set-top Fire TV. The older version of set-top box became unavailable for order on Amazon’s website a few months ago, and now we know the reason why: the roll-out of this new updated redesign.