Amazons Fire TV Recast, its Alexa-enabled take on the Slingbox, is currently discounted from its regular price of $230 down to $130. Youll need to be a Prime subscriber to take advantage of the deal, but if thats the case then you can get the device at its cheapest price ever. According to the price tracker CamelCamelCamel, the cheapest the Fire TV Recast has been previously was $180, and that was back in November.
When we reviewed Amazons DVR last year we generally liked its user interface, but we werent fans of the mobile app, and its limit of two concurrent streams felt too low. That made the device hard to unambiguously recommend at its $230 starting price, but with a $100 discount these limitations could be glossed over by some.
Along with the Fire TV Recast, Amazon has also announced discounts on Audible subscriptions (you can get you first three months for $5 or a year for $120), and its free trial for Kindle Unlimited has been ext