Anyone here use Amazon fire stick?
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Yes it is awesome...
Many thanks. Those commercials were a complete irritation.
YT was at the point it wasn't worth watching.
Now it's smokin'
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Firetv in the bedroom has the fire os built in and fire stick on kitchen tv 
. Both excellent devices.
. Both excellent devices.I have 3 Firesticks. The first I boxed yesterday after 10 yrs because it may have failed. Instead of playing to start it up again after 3 months it was idle I got out a spare I bought from Woot (An Amazon co) for only $7 about 3 years ago. I still have an extra our daughter gave us too about 2 years ago. Took the download, an optimizing, initializing then updates to get it going. Its unusual that it downloaded many more apps than we had initially. Now we have more regular networks, Youtube, a couple of other movie channels, the expected Prime, Freevee, more Live hannels, sports etc. where before it was mainly Prime video, Youtube, Hulu, Netflix and a few others. Many more options. My wife and I watched a few things before she wanted it back to broadcast TV. Not sure why it never updated before to all the new stuff but its nice now we have so many more options.
The only function of a Firestick that requires a Prime subscription is the Prime app itself. Which includes Thursday Night NFL and... not much else.
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My fire tv stick remote started eating two AA batteries per day after a couple years, so I ditched it.
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I got a firestick partially to watch NFL+ replays. A few minutes into the replay it exits the app and if you restart the app, the replay starts over. Apparently this is a known problem since at least last year. If I had known about this I would have gotten the Roku.
I am running an Apple TV4k at home and am pretty happy with that but I did set up an Amazon Firestick for my parents. Even my 88 and 90 year old parents can run it. Not a bad product if you ask me.
We have a Firestick on an LG TV and use both OS, a Roku TV, and a GoogleTV. Haha.
I've got multiple various sticks in drawers as well. Some of them I wouldn't want to use anymore as especially the old Rokus are dog slow now. But I'm pretty sure I have 1 4K Firestick and 1 4K Roku in a drawer, that are decent performing devices, just don't care to use them.
If I had to unify on one thing it would probably be GoogleTV as we have Google everything else. And the Onn $20 GoogleTV box at Walmart is pretty good, has 32GB and Bluetooth remote, so you can stick it on the back of the TV. But that said I don't care to unify things unless something breaks.
I've got multiple various sticks in drawers as well. Some of them I wouldn't want to use anymore as especially the old Rokus are dog slow now. But I'm pretty sure I have 1 4K Firestick and 1 4K Roku in a drawer, that are decent performing devices, just don't care to use them.
If I had to unify on one thing it would probably be GoogleTV as we have Google everything else. And the Onn $20 GoogleTV box at Walmart is pretty good, has 32GB and Bluetooth remote, so you can stick it on the back of the TV. But that said I don't care to unify things unless something breaks.
I stopped using included remote pretty much right away and replaced it with SofaBaton U2 which I programmed to TV and DVR as well. The remote supports 15 devices (can replace 15 remotes), has a screen and you can program devices names to show on the screen, it can control both Bluetooth and IR controlled devices. You connect the remote to phone or tablet via BT to manage/program the remote, it's very easy, it can learn from other remotes which makes it even easier.
I also stopped using regular batteries a while ago and switched to Ladda AA and AAA rechargeable ones (IKEA). They last longer, don't leak, I keep a few extras for replacements to avoid having to charge first, they have very little self discharge.
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