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Re:Amazon Fire TV Stick by wuliwong on Monday October 27, 2014 @06:12PM (#8518482)
This has turned out to be far more difficult to find out than I would have guessed. I still don't know! They also sell an optional "voice controller", I would assume that uses the same tech. Maybe we can figure it out through those specs.
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Re:Amazon Fire TV Stick by MattPearce on Monday October 27, 2014 @07:28PM (#8518754)
I think we can safely assume it is bluetooth (as the streaming stick is usually behind the TV, out of line-of-sight.

Plus they need to use bluetooth for the voice controller anyway - good luck transmitting voice data over IR :)

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Re:Amazon Fire TV Stick by ryanburk on Monday October 27, 2014 @08:00PM (#8518852)
the remote for the fire tv is bluetooth[1], so I think that is a safe assumption.

and the picture of voice over IR made me think of the IR stream coming out like morse code...

[1] http://zatznotfunny.com/2014-04/tale-three-remotes/

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Re:Amazon Fire TV Stick by benologist on Monday October 27, 2014 @07:58PM (#8518849)
If it's like the Fire TV remote it's bluetooth and the microphone's inside it.
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Re:Amazon Fire TV Stick by cgarvis on Monday October 27, 2014 @07:55PM (#8518837)
Could it be using the wifi to transmit the voice commands?
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