Amazon Fire TV Recast hands-on: a very smart and elegant DVR for cord cutters 

I just got a quick demo of the Amazon Fire TV Recast. It’s shoebox-sized thing you can put in your home to have a DVR that works with over-the-air channels that it receives via antenna and displays on your Fire TV (or Fire tablet). Like the Slingbox back in the day, the idea behind the Recast is to allow you to watch both live TV and stuff that you’ve recorded from anywhere.
There have been a million different weird takes on how to get TV content to act more like streaming content,