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Watch out: Fire TV could become the most expensive device in your home

01
Jul
2014

The announcement of the Fire TV set-top box was inevitable. With a huge catalog of streaming movies, TV shows and original series, it only made sense that Amazon would eventually take on the likes of Roku, Apple TV and Chromecast with a powerful device of its own. But as Tyler Hayes learned, one of the most interesting features of Fire TV could quickly result in unexpected costs. It was just a few days into June when Hayes says he got an email from his ISP alerting him that he had reached his monthly data allotment of 250GB. He had never hit the monthly cap in the past, even with 10+ connected devices in his home, but after having just started testing

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