Fire TV Stick with Alexa Voice Remote (includes TV controls) | HD streaming device | 2020 release

So worth the money. Basically it's virtually free cable tv. Prime video is awesome for on demand movies but the free plutotv and Tubi apps quadruple it's value. The tiny remote is perfect, it only has the buttons you need. It learned to control the tv no problem. Here is where we noticed possibly the only down side. So say you wanted to turn on the tv and play, say a workout video from your DVD player. When you hit power on your tv remote it also turns on the fire stick. Granted this is perfect for most people. Unless you've got a monthly cap on your internet. Unless you cycled through your tv inputs to see that the fire stick was on, you'd never know. So we plugged in the fire stick to a switched power strip. So we can just depower it if we wanted to play video games or DVDs and such. The hook up is as quick as you can unbox the thing and connect the wires. Type in your wifi password then log into your Amazon account and you're all good. I really can't recommend this enough. It works perfectly and it's about as user friendly as anything I've ever tried. It will honestly take you longer to figure out your wifi and amazon passwords. Oh, and we had the apps already installed in the tv but they work and work and grind to buffer or play anything. The fire stick must have a much bigger memory in it that eliminates the painful buffering / loading process that chokes the tv down to unwatchable. The fire stick does all this effortlessly.

It works well, and provides a decent picture (improved somewhat when I supplied it a wired connection to my router). It is fairly easy to set up initially, recognizing your tv for the remote, etc. I may be missing something but I have another fire TV device in the house, with all of the passwords for the various streaming suppliers, and you still have to go through and set up each service individually. So far operation has been fairly flawless and any glitches has been in my data connection, not the stick. Only issue is so many of the Alexa enabled devices can only connect on a 2.4 Ghz connection, and this you want to set up on a 5.0 ghz (for speed of signal) Since I have this on my primary router, and all of my Alexa devices on a separate 2.4 ghz router, not all of the Alexa enabled devices are as integrated as they could be. This has become more of a problem, as most modems/routers use a combined signal system, automatically switching between 2.4 and 5 ghz depending on signal strength and such, where most Alexa enabled devices require a specific 2.4 channel. (this is changing as more of the accessories are becoming 5.0 capable) I fixed this by adding a second older router as a hub, that has separate addresses for each network speed. Maybe a dedicated hub might work better with integration.

I don't usually write reviews but I had to for this one. First off I seen a lot of one-star reviews and I wanted to touch base on those the back of the remote cover took me less than a second to take off it was easy no problem anybody that had a problem has difficulties with electronics period second it is mostly for subscription services it has some or very little free services YouTube Tubi TV etc. TV/cable is not free. Third it advertises if you actually read it it does not support 4K it says that in the description and fourth the person who had it in Spanish and couldn't switch it to English must have been inpatient and was just pressing buttons rapidly at the startup it gives you a language option and it does come with 2 AAA batteries in the description it says batteries sold separately but two AAA batteries came in the box so now that I got that out of the way my own review it works very well I have a smart Vizo TV for my room and we have a regular HDTV for the living room I have to say the fire stick works better and faster than my smart TV loads instantly within 2-3 seconds and there is no buffering of the Video quality the voice command is a cool feature and you can control your TV power on/off and turn the volume up/down with the fire stick remote and the cool part is I didn't have to put in any code for the TV I just had to select my brand of TV 😁 I can't find any downside to it if I do I'll be back to edit my review but so far it is a great product five stars out of five!

Set up was extremely easy: 1) I plugged the Fire stick into my TV and put the batteries into the remote control, 2) the Fire stick started itself, asked which WiFi network is mine, then asked me to enter the WiFi password using the remote control. It then said it was connected to the internet, 3) the Fire stick downloaded updates and restarted itself, which took 10 minutes, 4) to log in to my Amazon account, the Fire stick asked me to go to the amazon.com/code website on my computer and enter the code that it displayed on my TV, which was very easy. Now the Fire Stick was logged into my Amazon account, 5) Lastly, it played music and asked me to check that the volume control on the remote control worked, and it did. Done. I was playing a TV show with this device less than 20 minutes after opening the package. The TV image and audio are very clear and it loaded the show quickly. Also, the remote control is small and has exactly what you need, without all the unnecessary buttons on my TV remote. The buttons turn the TV on/off, adjust volume up/down (including a mute button), fast-forward/rewind, and holding down the speaker button lets you provide verbal commands to Alexa. This is an excellent device at an affordable price.

So konnte ich für meine Eltern aus einem alten Fernseher einen Smart-TV machen. Läuft flüssig und so viele Möglichkeiten nun damit. Kinderleichte Bedienung auch durch Alexa.

Excelente dispositivo, muy contento y posee gran variedad de cosas

La Firestick è una garanzia. Rende le TV smart e quelle che sono già smart più smart. È fluida e veloce nell'utilizzo.

. Me ha encantado la rapidez y calidad

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