Following the Amazon Primeday sale, my Fire TV Stick arrived. Before the Fire TV Stick, I had been using the Amazon app on my TV which was slow and cumbersome. I also have a Chromecast and Apple TV 2nd Gen. It seems crazy having all the dongles and black boxes but sometimes to watch the show you want, you need to make sure you have access to as many options as possible.
So what was the Fire TV Stick like to setup? A breeze. No matter how little you knew about technology, the setup is made idiot proof. Plug the Fire TV Stick into a HDMI port, plug the power in, switch the TV to the AUX input if needed, and follow the on screen instructions. It first asks you to enter your Wi-Fi router password. Next to confirm it is your name and account to be associated with this device. Then you watch a video showing where everything is and how everything works. And that’s it.
In use streaming a TV series was smooth and faultless and it plays the next episode without any wait for buffering. Amazon called this ASAP—ASAP learns what Amazon movies and TV episodes you’ll want to watch and buffers them for playback before you hit play. It really works!
I found there was a reasonable selection of apps, and tomorrow I am going to try and connect my Moga Pro bluetooth game controller. The interface is big and bold and again simple to use. I installed the Fire TV remote app on my LG G4 and that worked perfectly too. Voice operation was remarkably accurate from the app.
Overall, I am left impressed. However, if you’re not a Prime member then the Fire TV Stick represents less value.
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Spent about 10 mins setting mine up this morning, will have popper play this weekend. Quite impressed to. Even the little intro tutorial is good. Weirdly i had to restart mine a couple of times to make it realise it actually had its power adapter connected. Even accessing iplayer was easier than most other methods.
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