SEATTLE – Amazon’s Fire TV Stick Basic Edition is now available in Canada, promising fast access to thousands of movies, TV shows, apps, and games.
The streaming media player is now available for purchase in Canada from Amazon.ca for $49.99 (as well as in more than 100 other countries), and will begin shipping on Wednesday.
The Fire TV Stick Basic Edition provides Canadian users with access to popular content from multiple providers, including Amazon Prime Video, Netflix, Spotify, and YouTube. Prime Video members will get unlimited access to original content like The Grand Tour, The Tick, American Gods, and The Man in the High Castle, as well as award-winning shows like Transparent and Mozart In the Jungle.
The device comes with a quad-core processor and 1 GB of memory, as well as 8 GB of storage for apps and games. Customers may set their default language as English, French, Spanish, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, or German.
"Last year, we made Amazon Prime Video available to customers globally, and today, we're building on that momentum as we introduce Fire TV Stick Basic Edition to new customers around the world," said Amazon Fire TV VP Marc Whitten, in the news release Tuesday. "This makes streaming content from apps like Prime Video fast and easy and we can't wait to hear what customers think."
