Amazon Fire TV Stick

Yaayuh! · 23 Oct 2017 at 09:46

Hi all.
We're re-doing our Sky sub and will be removing multiroom. Looking to get an Amazon Fire TV Stick for the bedroom to utilise Prime and Netflix.

Anyone got the latest version of the stick and can comment on the performance? It'll be for 80% Netflix and 20% Prime.

Just want to ensure it's not going to be a laggy piece of **** before i pull the trigger.

Boge · 23 Oct 2017 at 09:54

It's a laggy piece of ***** alright.

Had one for 9 months and gave up with it. Was slower than a slow thing. Also. Unless you leave it constantly switched on (it doesn't go to sleep as such) you will have to pull the batteries from the remote to reconnect it when you start it up again. And even then it takes forever to respond to any button pushes. Woeful.

We've just upgraded our TV and Bluray player. The Amazon Apps on both perform like lightning in comparison.

Yaayuh! · 23 Oct 2017 at 09:58

Boge said:
It's a laggy piece of ***** alright.

Had one for 9 months and gave up with it. Was slower than a slow thing.

1st Gen or 2nd Gen?

Schizo · 23 Oct 2017 at 10:02

Get the fire tv box,had mine 2 years and its been faultless.

Boge · 23 Oct 2017 at 10:25

1st Gen or 2nd Gen?

Dunno. Bought it June 2016. Voice remote version for £39.99

Yaayuh! · 23 Oct 2017 at 10:27

Boge said:
Dunno. Bought it June 2016. Voice remote version for £39.99

Gen2 came out October 2016. So will be the Gen1 you used.

Schizo said:
Get the fire tv box,had mine 2 years and its been faultless.

Worth almost double the cost for use on a 1920x1080 TV?

Schizo · 23 Oct 2017 at 10:33

Get the first gen 2nd hand for about £30

Cleisthenes · 23 Oct 2017 at 10:48

On a side note, how would I know if mine is a 1st of 2nd gen?

I bought it on 29th October '16.

Schizo · 23 Oct 2017 at 11:00

Thats the first gen,the 4k is the 2nd one.

roccles · 23 Oct 2017 at 11:11

I use mine (Gen1 i think )daily for Netflix and Amazon Prime and the only time I have had any lag was during the hot months when It was connected directly to the back of my AV unit and it was over heating. So I would advise using the HDMI extender cable than comes with it. I would also advise getting the voice remote it works great.

Hades · 23 Oct 2017 at 12:05

I've got the 1st gen. No issues here. It lags a tiny bit for the first few seconds after turning it on (presumably downloading the home screen). But fine after that and I haven't had any issues that require the batteries being removed. It was one of the best £40 I've spent. It's great and I watch Netflix, Youtube, iplayer, etc on it.

Safetytrousers · 23 Oct 2017 at 12:13

I had the version one. It worked very well. The picture was very good, better than feeding my PC to the screen, I think because of how Chrome handles/d video.
It is a little slow to navigate around, but unless you want to channel surf, it's not an issue.
You can also put Kodi on it (the version one at least).

Scam · 23 Oct 2017 at 12:28

1st gen FTV box here still going strong.

Maundie · 23 Oct 2017 at 14:23

Got 1st gen of both the Fire TV and Fire stick and both have been flawless, just switch it on as soon as I walk in the bedroom and by the time I've been to the loo or hung my cloths up it's caught up and is ready to play fine.

I only had the battery issue once which was when we brought it back from the flat in London and I hadn't used it for about a week but a quick re-sync and it was fine again.

Yaayuh! · 23 Oct 2017 at 14:32

Thanks all for you feedback, much appreciated.

div0 · 23 Oct 2017 at 14:58

Schizo said:
Get the fire tv box,had mine 2 years and its been faultless.

Having used various streaming devices, I'd agree with this.

I had the Fire stick and ended up upgrading to the Fire TV box. The stick is ok, but for regular use at home I'd definitely go for a proper box over the stick.

Boge · 23 Oct 2017 at 19:48

Have to say I've been mightily impressed with Amazons UHD streaming content via the Sony platform recently. Mad Max is , well, Mad in every respect. Complete bunkum as a story but enjoyable in a boom crash tinkle splutter kinda way.

silverblack · 23 Oct 2017 at 20:09

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Liquidfox · 25 Oct 2017 at 12:37

2nd Gen FTV is far, far better than the 1st Gen one. We have no issues with 1080p playback on Prime or Netflixx.

Aneskimo · 25 Oct 2017 at 13:33

I got the newest one with Alexa voice command and it’s fine. I have virgin internet and it streams great weather I use Netflix, prime and I also have kodi on it too