Amazon Fire TV & Fire Stick - Price drops, new generation and a new UI

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WattsvilleBlues: Jan 25, 2005; Every demon wants his pound of flesh

Call Me Charlie posted:

An update is rolling out to bring the new interface to all 1st gen devices.

http://www.aftvnews.com/software-update-5-2-4-1-rolling-out-to-all-fire-tv-and-fire-tv-stick-models-adds-new-interface-to-1st-gen-devices/

It also brings voice search to YouTube

http://www.aftvnews.com/amazon-fire-tv-and-fire-tv-stick-now-supports-voice-search-for-youtube/

The ability to monitor data usage and warn you when you've reached your data cap.

http://www.aftvnews.com/amazon-fire-tv-stick-can-now-monitor-data-usage-and-alert-you-when-youve-reached-a-data-cap/

And allows you to select the video quality.

http://www.aftvnews.com/you-can-now-select-from-3-video-quality-settings-on-the-amazon-fire-tv-and-fire-tv-stick/

Is there any way to sideload the update? I'm still not seeing any update available for my Fire TV and I'm impatient and antsy.

# ¿ Apr 10, 2017 20:11

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# ¿ May 2, 2024 01:21

WattsvilleBlues: Jan 25, 2005; Every demon wants his pound of flesh

Call Me Charlie posted:

No, they do a staggered rollout to make sure there's no issues. AFTVNews has a faq that better explains it http://www.aftvnews.com/amazon-fire-tv-software-update-frequently-asked-questions-faqs/

Interesting read, thanks for that.

# ¿ Apr 11, 2017 13:49

WattsvilleBlues: Jan 25, 2005; Every demon wants his pound of flesh

Sendo posted:

Anyone else have issues with the YouTube app performance deteriorating ?

I use my FireTV (Gen 1) for Youtube/Netflix and Kodi, on a fresh start youtube will be fine but after watching things in a few different apps the next time I go to watch something in YouTube it will have series frame rate problems like running at 5FPS. The only thing that fixes it is restarting the box, I've tried killing all apps from the settings menu and then relaunching YouTube alone but it still has the problem.

This seems to have gotten worse as the OS has been updated, it use to happen every couple of weeks but as updates has happened it's now pretty much daily.

Have you tried going to Manage Apps and clearing YouTube cache?

# ¿ May 29, 2017 10:06

WattsvilleBlues: Jan 25, 2005; Every demon wants his pound of flesh

So is there not going to be a wired Amazon Fire TV except for the cube thing with Alexa?

# ¿ Sep 27, 2017 22:44

WattsvilleBlues: Jan 25, 2005; Every demon wants his pound of flesh

I've got a Fire TV which I love, but the picture has lots of banding, mostly in uniform backgrounds or things in dim lighting or darkness, even in HD. Are all streaming boxes going to produce that or do some offer better image quality?

# ¿ Dec 30, 2017 10:59

WattsvilleBlues: Jan 25, 2005; Every demon wants his pound of flesh

Does the latest generation Fire TV still have banding in video playback? On my 1080p TVs it's particularly noticeable in darker scenes.

# ¿ Mar 4, 2018 17:26

WattsvilleBlues: Jan 25, 2005; Every demon wants his pound of flesh

NofrikinfuN posted:

I have a launch Fire TV stick that has been shelved for over a year that I decided to dust off and mess with.

Does it have to download and install literally every single update in sequence to bring it up to date? I'm about seven updates deep at this point.

That's what my nieces' Kindle Fire tablets did. Madness. I'd suggest resetting to factory settings once the final update is installed to eradicate any shite left between upgrades, and to insure the best performance from the thing.

# ¿ May 20, 2019 01:30

WattsvilleBlues: Jan 25, 2005; Every demon wants his pound of flesh

What would give faster performance, the second gen Fire TV (the 4K one) or the current Fire TV Stick 4K?

# ¿ Aug 12, 2019 20:22

WattsvilleBlues: Jan 25, 2005; Every demon wants his pound of flesh

Any recommendations for a gigabit ethernet adapter for the Fire TV Cube? It's insulting they're putting out 100Mbps adapters.

# ¿ Jun 10, 2022 11:53

WattsvilleBlues: Jan 25, 2005; Every demon wants his pound of flesh

Maneki Neko posted:

Pretty sure the reason these are all limited at 100Mbps is because the USB ports are USB 2.0 still which doesn't support Gigabit speeds.

They really need to sort that poo poo out. I disconnected ethernet and just hopped on my WiFi, I'm now getting over 3 times the download speeds. It feels wrong though.

# ¿ Jun 11, 2022 11:10

WattsvilleBlues: Jan 25, 2005; Every demon wants his pound of flesh

Good grief, the new Fire TV Cube will have an Ethernet port built-in but still be a 100Mbps connection. What madness!

# ¿ Sep 29, 2022 19:33

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# ¿ May 2, 2024 01:21

WattsvilleBlues: Jan 25, 2005; Every demon wants his pound of flesh

What's the likelihood of a Fire TV Cube being released this year with either built-in or USB adapter supporting gigabit Ethernet? My wireless speeds on my current unit are decent but I plugged the 100Mbps Ethernet adapter back in because the wireless sometimes switched to another access point further away with crap speed.

# ¿ Jan 4, 2023 21:51

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