Amazon finally agrees that it is 2019 and allows YouTube to return to Fire TV – BGR

If Amazon's Fire TV platform is your streaming media, you will not have to use a web browser to watch YouTube videos any longer. Amazon and Google have apparently decided to end an argument that prevented YouTube from accessing the Amazon TV service for more than a year, announcing today that it is YouTube application would return on Amazon Fire TV devices "in the coming months". According to this agreement, the Prime Video app will be able to stream to Chromecast and Chromecast integrated devices, with Prime Video becoming more available on all Android TV device partners.

In addition, YouTube TV and YouTube Kids will also be showing on Fire TV later this year.

Neither company today has revealed much more than the usual quotes in a press release filled with platitudes that mention how "excited" they are to work with each other. An escalation of disagreements had mutilated the two societies to the point of making things so bad. Google said at one point that Amazon was not offering some of its products for sale and that Amazon was exploding Google for firing YouTube Fire TV devices Google was "selectively blocking" the device. access to an open website.

Now that both companies seem to have buried the hatchet, the announcement today means that once the YouTube application returned to Fire TV, users will be able to connect to their existing YouTube account, access their full library of content and play 4K HDR videos at 60 fps on supported devices.

The built-in users of Likeweise, Chromecast and Chromecast, as well as Android TV users, will be able to access the entire Prime Video catalog, including the latest seasons of Amazon Originals, such as The wonderful Mrs Maisel, Hanna, Back home, Bosch, Disaster and The grand tour, with Amazon Original movies like Donald Glover's Guava Island, and Oscar nominated films like The big patient and Cold War.

Amazon has begun selling Chromecast again, but still does not sell other Google products, such as Google Home, that compete with its Echo devices or all Nest products.