I've just bought an Amazon Fire TV stick. It arrived next day, The box contained all I needed to make it work. I plugged it in and it just worked!!!
No faffing around, no long winded instructions or complex registration. It just worked, even the voice operated remote control understands what I want to watch.
Just saying:-)
Mike
Yes and the screen reader works and net flicks AD, what a pity Amazon themselves do not do AD content. I've heard good things about it otherwise. Brian
Found anything worth watching:-)
A remarkably good bit of kit.
Its early days but yes we watched a good film last night. Not sure about "The grand tour" but I'll try another episode or two before making my mind up.
My main reason for buying it is BBC iplayer. Our old Humax box doesn't receive it any more.
Mike
I've not quite got my head around what the Fire TV Stick *is* and *does*.
Anyone care to explain?
Puts fire in your stick?
I wish...
So that you can keep an Amazon happy?
[But what about the TV bit?]
Its a microphone that plugs into the Internet and anything you say within range is transmitted back to Amazon.
on 29/04/2017, Roger Mills supposed :
It connects a normal TV, if it has an HDMI input, to the Internet. That then allows you to stream pay for films and TV programs you might have missed onto your TV (ITV Hub, UK TV Play, BBCi etc.). Some software called KODI can be also be installed, which then allows you to watch much, much more.
It comes as either a stick, or a larger more capable box, each with a bluetooth remote.
Thanks. Does it speak Android? What's the difference between the stick and box?
Triple Viagra?
It runs Android, but that's carefully hidden.
The box costs more, responds faster, and IIRC has a port for a wired connection. I think it has games too.
Andy
The Fire TV box (current one) has H.265 hardware for streaming 4K video. The Stick is HD only.
That sums it up quite well. The one I have also has voice activated remote which works incredibly well.
Mike
my TV already does that - albeit badly
my Freesat box also does it, somewhat better
what neither will do is Amazon Prime or NowTV, I assumed that a fire stick, or similar would provide that. (they will do Netflix - provided you have an account)
tim
Yes there is a lot of pay to view options on there including Netflix. Ive not felt the need to pay for anything yet
Mike.
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