Since Amazon bought Lovefilm, the Kindle Fire HD benefits from access to the vast movie and TV collection. If you're already a Lovefilm subscriber and have Instant as part of the package, you'll be able to stream movies just as you do already on your TV or computer. Whispersync means you can carry on watching a movie on any of your devices, as the Pause and Resume feature remembers the scene you last watched.

The Kindle Fire HD has a colour LCD screen just like your laptop or PC, rather than the black-and-white e-Ink screen of a traditional Kindle. You can still read books on the Fire HD, of course, and can choose from the same million or so paid-for eBooks, plus millions of free titles in the public domain.

Reading on a colour screen is different from a non-backlit e-Ink screen, and some people don't find it as comfortable for long periods. However, it means you can read digital magazines on the Fire HD: there's a choice of more than 150 titles to choose from in the new Amazon App Store.