Amazon Fire TV

Is it possible to connect a wireless keyboard to the new Fire TV?

My dad is thinking of getting one to side-load Kodi onto and using it to stream his music through his home cinema system but I'm thinking that manually searching for songs and album names etc will be a bit long winded if you are forced to use the remote and an on-screen keyboard!
 
It will work with USB keyboards, so also works with wireless keyboards that use a USB dongle.

I used aa wireless Logitech one for ages, untill I lost the dongle :(
 
can the fire tv supersample 4K?

e.g. i i watch a 4K amazon prime show on a 1080p tv will it supersample the 4k version or simply detect i have a 1080p output and just use the 1080p stream
 
has anyone got a the firetv running through a switch?

we had it direct into the router and it worked fine. Moved it to another room and this has a netgear switch in it for the tv consoles etc.

It just does not seem to be able to find a connection.
 
it may be to do with the d7000 then. I tired it direct with a large ethernet cable and it still didnt find a connection just wireless.
 
Just got the AFTV 2. So far it seems little or no different to the first gen box. If it's 75% faster than the old I don't see it at all. 4k yea that's all there but I use a lot of apps side loaded ( firestarter doesn't function properly yet). Videos still have micro stuttering (assume it's the 24 fps issue) although I don't really notice it in the plex app. Asphalt 8 I tested to see if the soc was indeed faster than the gen 1 box. It's hard to tell if I'm honest. Time will tell I guess with the gen 2 box. Unless you need the 4k feature atm I don't see any reason to get the gen 2 box however is WAY faster than the fire stick (I have no patience at ALL). Will test further as days go by.
 
Thanks for the update on the FTV 2. I doubt that it would add much for me over the first gen I have. Running kodi on that is good enough for our needs and as I need the optical output I was dismayed to see that they have dropped that from the new version.....!

The new NVidia Android box seems pretty good, but does cost more. However it does support quite a bit more including 24p playback if I have read correctly.
 
Nvidia box does look promising but for my purpose it's a backup video player mainly for me and of course kodi. I use a roku 3 exclusively atm with its plex app for video from my server. Gaming I'm not too bothered about but obviously it's nice to have and 4k streaming is also nice.
 
Rumours are just rumours but I'm reading that the up and coming Roku 4 does support S/PDIF as well as a lot of other goodies.

Whilst there might not a one box fits all solution it is great that affordable boxes seem to be good enough for many to replace what was once the domain of regular type HTPC's.
 
Just got my FTV 2 and I was under the impression that the Youtube app is 4K, it's not.

Also the free Prime UHD stuff is minimal, there are a few TV series but no movies included in Prime. The paid for are silly priced!
 
Update. For those who play videos from the likes of BS player, MX player, and VLC player etc etc I've found the playback so far extremely smooth. Hevc based x265 I've got playing direct in VLC 1080p fine. 4k I'm not so sure about as I've not many 4k video files currently to play. Plex as before runs smoothly.
 
Does anybody know what video format the Android BBC News App streams in?

Problem -
If I've been playing videos from my NAS/PC and then go to BBC News App, the video is missing until I reboot the Fire TV.

Possible solution?
Playing 1 second of a video that is exactly the same as what the BBC stream.

Thanks
 
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