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PuTTY riot posted:There weren't always ads on the home screen, right? Or am I crazy? It's been a long time since there hasn't been. The banner ad has just been stretched all the way across the top instead of being placed in the upper right hand corner like on the old OS. (Unless you're talking about the stupid autoplay videos meant to highlight new content that's available. Thankfully you can turn that off by going Settings -> Preferences -> Featured Content -> Allow Video Autoplay OFF, Allow Audio Autoplay OFF) Call Me Charlie fucked around with this message at 01:01 on Feb 4, 2017 |
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phosdex posted:What kind of ads are you seeing?
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# ? Feb 4, 2017 06:00 |
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Yeah. That's been there since Feburary 2015. http://www.aftvnews.com/amazon-enables-fire-tv-banner-ad-and-pre-roll-video-ads/ Only real thing it advertised outside of Amazon's ecosystem was Brother printers, halloween candy and fitbits so Acer is a new one. On the new interface, once you click down to leave the home row, the banner will disappear. This is what it use to look like. Call Me Charlie fucked around with this message at 06:21 on Feb 4, 2017 |
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A new update finally allows people to disable the Prime Photos app.quote:The Prime Photos app on the Amazon Fire TV and Fire TV Stick has been updated with a new option that allows customers to disable the app altogether. As you would expect, disabling the app prevents it from being launched. More importantly though, and likely the main reason for adding this new option, disabling the app also prevents it from storing photos and videos from your Amazon Drive onto the Fire TV or Fire TV Sticks internal storage. This allows customers who don’t use the Photos app to reclaim the precious internal storage space that the app normally uses. http://www.aftvnews.com/prime-photos-app-on-the-amazon-fire-tv-can-now-be-disabled-to-save-internal-storage-space/
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# ? Feb 5, 2017 02:53 |
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Oh, guess I barely even register that since it disappears once you nav down once.
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# ? Feb 5, 2017 04:56 |
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Call Me Charlie posted:
Is there a way to re-enable this skin on my AFTV? Actually I think my ideal skin would be 4 equally sized tiles, Prime Video, Netflix, HBO Go/Now, Prime music I loving hate design people, companies hire them full time, they do their primary job and make a good ui, then rather than quit, to look productive they start redesigning it over and over again, each iteration worse than the last because it can't look like the previous designs
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Hadlock posted:Is there a way to re-enable this skin on my AFTV? You hate people who don't quit their job to avoid inconveniencing you?
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# ? Feb 7, 2017 23:29 |
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big money big clit posted:You hate people who don't quit their job to avoid inconveniencing you? No, what he really hates companies that constantly redesign the UI just because they can. If an interface works, keep it. While there may be merit in redesigning a physical product to keep it fresh in the consumers' eye, there is rarely a need to completely toss out a working UI. Tweaks and UX improvements are great, but when you have to completely relearn where a menu item is just because the design department has to justify its existence, it's a pain in the rear end.
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# ? Feb 16, 2017 14:59 |
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Posted this elsewhere a few days ago, but so far no replies... My first gen FireTV is being weird with Prime Video. When I pull up a show and select and episode it will play no problem. When I pause the video it pauses no problem, when I press play again, however, the video will begin playing, but all audio is gone. At first I thought it was just trying to reopen the stream so I let it sit for a little while, that turned into 15+ minutes of an episode playing and no sound coming back. If I hit the back button and return to the episode select screen, choose the same episode and then hit "resume" from there it begins to play back with audio no problem. So it's only when I pause something I am currently watching and it' only Amazon Prime video that does it. HBO Go, Netflix both work as intended as well as everything else video/audio related on the box. It's been happening for a couple weeks now and I can't figure out what the problem is. I've replaced the HDMI cable, moved to a different port tried optical audio direct to the receiver rather than tunneling the tv, messed with audio settings on the box nothing seems to fix the issue. It's getting pretty annoying. I have 3 other FireStick's in the house and none of them have any problems. Short of resetting the firetv tp factory is there anything else I can do? Just seems weird it's literally only prime video.
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# ? Feb 16, 2017 22:07 |
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thebushcommander posted:Posted this elsewhere a few days ago, but so far no replies... Could this be your problem? http://www.aftvnews.com/surround-sound-issues-with-amazon-video-on-fire-tv-resolved/ It's worth a try before you factory reset. quote:If you’re still experiencing the issue, you should go into your device’s settings and clear the data and cache of the Amazon video app under the Manage Applications menu.
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# ? Feb 19, 2017 16:05 |
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My Roku 3 is starting to feel pretty old so I was thinking about picking one up the full Fire TV box and noticed it isn't available to ship until March. Is there an updated version coming out then? Or does it just occasionally go out of stock?
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GOOD TIMES ON METH posted:My Roku 3 is starting to feel pretty old so I was thinking about picking one up the full Fire TV box and noticed it isn't available to ship until March. Is there an updated version coming out then? Or does it just occasionally go out of stock? It's hard to say. There were rumblings of third generation Fire TV box launching a few months ago and nothing came from it. The guy at AFTVNews recently posted a 'what could you like to see out of a third generation Fire TV' post and he has a history of people within Amazon feeding him information so that could mean that something's on the horizon. Usually when things get delayed, it's because Amazon decided to scrap it for something completely different or the software isn't ready. I'd bet on the latter. OTA support is probably going to be the big draw for gen 3 and I'm doubting its going to get baked into the box. So that means some type of USB tuner. The good thing about that is if you don't care about HDR support or the upgraded CPU/GPU, gen 2 should get support through a software update.
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# ? Feb 21, 2017 15:52 |
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Ok, thanks. I don't care about HDR in the short term but I don't want to have to buy a new box in a year or two when OLEDs start dropping into a more normal price range, so maybe I will just see what happens in March.
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GOOD TIMES ON METH posted:but I don't want to have to buy a new box in a year or two when OLEDs start dropping into a more normal price poo poo, Samsung was selling their HDR 65" 4K LCD hdtv for $930 over christmas, with free shipping. It's not OLED good but pretty close. I think every TV over 39" is going to be 4K HDR by the end of the year
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Call Me Charlie posted:Could this be your problem? hmm, it's no sound at all not just lacking surround sound, but I'll try clearing the apps cache.. I didn't even realize it had its own video "app" figured poo poo like that would be baked into their OS. Edit: So clearing the cache and such didn't fix the problem. So I went in messing with more settings and changed audio output around a bunch to all the options. Finally after the 4th time changing it to something else and back to what it has always been the sound is now magically resuming with video. Weird issue for it to work flawlessly for over a year and then just decide to be a dick, but simply changing output to something else and back to what it was fixed it. thebushcommander fucked around with this message at 18:32 on Feb 23, 2017 |
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Has anyone else been getting frequent "Home is Currently Unavailable" errors lately? The network settings thing says that it can connect to wifi but not to the internet, but I can use the internet (including reaching amazon.com) on other devices over the same wifi connection so that isn't actually the problem.
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Downloader got a big update.quote:I am very excited to announce the latest version of my Downloader app for the Amazon Fire TV and Fire TV Stick. The big new feature of this 1.1.1 version is a built-in web browser. The browser allows you to easily navigate websites using the Fire TV remote without needing a mouse or keyboard. Downloading files is available through the browser so you no longer need to know the direct download URL to the file you want to download or the APK you want to install. You can just navigate to any website and click a download link to get the file you want. http://www.aftvnews.com/downloader-app-v1-1-1-update-for-fire-tv-adds-built-in-web-browser/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0PBpOLFdKg&t=93s withak posted:Has anyone else been getting frequent "Home is Currently Unavailable" errors lately? The network settings thing says that it can connect to wifi but not to the internet, but I can use the internet (including reaching amazon.com) on other devices over the same wifi connection so that isn't actually the problem. Could be worth checking it with myNetLyzer. http://www.aftvnews.com/new-mynetlyzer-app-tests-your-wifi-network-on-the-amazon-fire-tv-and-fire-tv-sticks/ If it's not the wifi signal, it could be some type of hardware failure.
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# ? Feb 26, 2017 23:33 |
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Now you can get your facebooks on your fire tv https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0094BB4TW quote:The app requires you to login to a Facebook account, and once you do, you’ll be able to watch videos your friends have shared, top videos, recommended videos, as well as videos you’ve uploaded yourself to the social network.
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# ? Mar 1, 2017 19:55 |
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Neat now I can watch my racist Aunt be racist on TV
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# ? Mar 1, 2017 21:01 |
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If the fire is out of stock, check Prime Now if your city has it. The TV stick shows delayed for a few more days, but in Phoenix I used Prime Now and got it in two hours.
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# ? Mar 3, 2017 02:26 |
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OTA support would require some hardware deinterlacing, which only the first-gen stick seems to have. Bought a 2nd gen to run Kodi and a DVR plugin and was disappointed with 1080i channels. HDHomeRun forums say the boxes are the same way, which seems like a glaring oversight.
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# ? Mar 3, 2017 10:41 |
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PAC-MAN Championship Edition DX is now free https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06VVYMJBN Craptacular! posted:OTA support would require some hardware deinterlacing, which only the first-gen stick seems to have. Bought a 2nd gen to run Kodi and a DVR plugin and was disappointed with 1080i channels. HDHomeRun forums say the boxes are the same way, which seems like a glaring oversight. I thought it was a software thing with MPEG2?
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Kodi has software deinterlacing, but on stick gen2 it slows the frame rate down to unwatchable. And HDHomeRun's skinny little client app doesn't include filters like that, it just assumes the hardware can do it.
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I am having inconsistent issues related to audio/video syncing between different applications on my FireTV. Netflix is great. Hulu is not great, and has very noticable issues. SlingTV seems mostly OK but maybe off? I've cleared cache/data from Hulu, and rebooted entirely to test things. I am clueless, and have googled for solutions but nothing concrete has come up at all. ShaneB fucked around with this message at 17:12 on Mar 7, 2017 |
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AFTVNews posted an article on recommended content from third party apps.quote:With the new Fire TV user interface, Amazon added the ability for any app you have installed to recommend content for you to watch. These recommendations will appear in their own row on the Fire TV’s home screen. This new functionality was likely added in part to address criticism that Amazon only highlights their own Prime Video content on the Fire TV’s interface. Amazon just updated their developer documentation for this feature, giving us a better idea of how it works. Here’s a breakdown of the feature and what to expect when apps begin adopting it. http://www.aftvnews.com/heres-how-the-recommended-by-your-apps-section-of-the-amazon-fire-tv-works/ Call Me Charlie fucked around with this message at 21:41 on Mar 14, 2017 |
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ShaneB posted:I am having inconsistent issues related to audio/video syncing between different applications on my FireTV. Netflix is great. Hulu is not great, and has very noticable issues. SlingTV seems mostly OK but maybe off? Do you use optical audio output from your FireTV or are you using a FireStick into the tv or a receiver? The reason I ask if source audio type is different between all of those so output conversion might be your issue causing sync/delay. I'd go into the system menu and change output around, perhap put on auto if it's not already or force output to basic dolby digital over hdmi or whatever. thebushcommander fucked around with this message at 15:19 on Mar 15, 2017 |
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thebushcommander posted:Do you use optical audio output from your FireTV or are you using a FireStick into the tv or a receiver? The reason I ask if source audio type is different between all of those so output conversion might be your issue causing sync/delay. I'd go into the system menu and change output around, perhap put on auto if it's not already or force output to basic dolby digital over hdmi or whatever. I use HDMI only. I read somewhere that not using the screen-size scaler can assist with syncing. I haven't really been able to test extensively but I think it might have helped?
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I wonder if someone here can help me. I just bought one of my friend's extra Fire TV boxes, but I'm having issues registering it. I've removed her account from it and connected to my wifi just fine. Connection seems good, but when I enter my login info, it tells me there's a problem connecting to my account. I've entered my info a few times so I don't think it's my account info that's the problem. I suspect a connection issue but I don't know how to diagnose it. Edit: I connected it to my computer monitor downstairs which is where the modem is, and it connected just fine through wifi. I guess I need a signal booster or something. oh dope fucked around with this message at 00:08 on Mar 19, 2017 |
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Wireless is just a bit janky at times. If your serious about needing it to work buffer free 24/7 it's probably worth investing in power line adapter(the fire TV box does have a rj45 connected right?)
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# ? Mar 19, 2017 14:58 |
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It's time to get a better router, or buy a wifi repeater. Streaming video over a flaky WiFi connection is awful and frustrating. WiFi on my two AFTV has been very strong overall
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It's probably a long shot but if you happen to have TMobile, you can call them and tell them signal in your house is bad and they'll send you a pretty drat nice router for free.
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Oh poo poo...quote:Exclusive: Amazon to release new mid-tier Fire TV model with 4K, HDR, and Android 7 http://www.aftvnews.com/exclusive-amazon-to-release-new-mid-tier-fire-tv-model-with-4k-hdr-and-android-7/ Although this is the second or third time he's hosed up the codename on speculation. It's always related to some character from some movie. And possibly the second time he went 'no seriously this new thing is a stick' only for it to be the big box version. It'd make sense to keep the Fire TV Stick the way it is, release this new thing at a price that can compete with the Mi Box and (potentially) have a premium tier box as the proper successor to the 2nd gen Fire TV. Or Amazon could be abandoning their casual gaming ambitions outside of what we have. The flow of games is down to nothing and most of the games can be played on the Stick. Call Me Charlie fucked around with this message at 15:49 on Mar 20, 2017 |
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Is the existing non stick AFTV mid tier or upper tier? All I want is 4K HDR playback. Seems odd that they would slot in a better model with HDR support below their existing 4K unit without an update to the high end model to support HDR
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Hadlock posted:Is the existing non stick AFTV mid tier or upper tier? All I want is 4K HDR playback. Seems odd that they would slot in a better model with HDR support below their existing 4K unit without an update to the high end model to support HDR There's only two tiers. Lower (Stick) and Higher (Box) The guy that runs AFTVNews thinks that this will be a third tier that will take the middle but I'm doubting that. With this news, I wouldn't be surprised if they shitcanned the real replacement to the 2nd gen Fire TV and adapted the strategy they're using for their tablets. Get them working well enough for the average user (but nowhere as good as the previous generation) and crater the price on them. So I'd guess Current Gen Fire TV Stick - $30-35 This new box thing that can do 4K HDR -$50-60 with the 2nd gen Fire TV box getting discontinued. _____________ And I really hope this is (wrong) speculation and not somebody on the inside feeding him information quote:It doesn’t necessarily have to be a stick to not be a box. It could be Chromecast-like with a short HDMI cable permanently attached. That would differentiate it enough from the Fire TV Stick to alleviate any confusion. I just don’t think this thing will sit on a shelf and require a detachable HDMI cable. But again, that’s all just my guess, so we’ll have to wait and see. Call Me Charlie fucked around with this message at 17:27 on Mar 20, 2017 |
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Gaming on AFTV never really took off, so it's not really surprising to pull back on gaming performance for video playback and lowering the price. I'm honestly having trouble caring about this hardware anymore since the Shield got Amazon Video in HDR. At the end of the day, the FireTV doesn't really deliver anything you can't get elsewhere anymore, and it's missing out on two key services (Google Play TV and Movies and a provider for UV like Vudu) that all of the other major competitors have. My FireTV second gen sits unused right now and my FireTV Stick just sees occasional use on my kitchen TV. They need a hook and I'm not really sure what that would be right now.
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bull3964 posted:They need a hook and I'm not really sure what that would be right now. It's the price. If it lands at $60, they're move a ton of units. It'd undercut both the Mi Box and the Chromecast Ultra and get close to being competitive with Roku again (who's made some surprising moves recently) The Shield's a great piece of hardware but the price puts it in another world along with the Apple TV.
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Well, I was mainly talking about being competitive with Roku. Under $60 would make it the cheapest way to get Amazon 4k HDR, that much is true. However, if you only care about Amazon and you have a TV that can display HDR, chances are you have an Amazon app on your TV that can do 4k HDR. If you don't only care about Amazon, the extra $30 for the Roku is going to make a lot more sense (especially when Vudu starts supporting HDR10.) They are really hamstring by app omissions. Amazon becoming a UV partner would really make a ton of sense in the long run since they could directly compete with Walmart, but they wouldn't like giving up that control. It is the missing piece though to keep people within the Amazon ecosystem for the majority of their streaming, but it also allows people to be portable with their content and go elsewhere with it.
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# ? Mar 20, 2017 19:28 |
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Anybody know if any of these devices can run Hangouts? I'd love to attach a USB camera + Mic and be able to conference with family on the TV.
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bull3964 posted:Well, I was mainly talking about being competitive with Roku. Eh, I don't know. If somebody's in the market for a streaming box it's most likely because they decided their smart TV didn't cut it for every day use and/or there's some other feature they want. Roku's been making some great moves lately but the UI is still ancient compared to the competition and there's some services Amazon hasn't shared with them (like a fully functional Amazon Music app, Prime Photos, Alexa) I also wish they'd become a UV partner but they seem completely against anything that could potentially eat into their VOD sales. Whether it's UV or Kodi in their appstore or NTFS support for hard drives. But I just use the Vudu app on my Roku TV so (although it is pretty weird how out of all the garbage UV connected storefronts there are, none of them have ported their android app over to the Fire store. you'd think fandango now or cinemanow would be desperate enough)
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So far Disney is the only 'digital download' I've managed to get working on the stick. UV stuff is garbage. At least Disney will let me set it up like I bought it from Amazon's on demand store.
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