Topic: Amazon Fire Stick 4K thread

[tsammyc]

Just picked up two of these on sale for USD25 each in the USA. Quite a bit cheaper than an Apple TV 4K and seems to do the same thing. In fact, the Apple TV app is coming to it later this year, so I should bet able to watch my iTunes movies on it.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/25/18280615/apple-tv-service-roku-vizio-sony-lg-samsung-compatibility-event-2019

Unfortunately am still in the USA and won't be back for 2 weeks, so can't tell you how well it works on a 4K TV. I have access to a 1080p Sharp LCD here and hooked it up. It's very very responsive compared to the previous Fire TV (non-4K) that I have and audio quality is much better than the Roku 3 attached to this TV currently. One thing it does well is to translate Netflix Dolby Digital Plus to DD 5.1, since the receiver here can't talk DD+. I can also install a VPN on it directly. Overall a very polished product, but I will have to see how it handles HDR. It does BOTH Dolby Vision and HDR 10+ so will be interesting to stream say, Alita and see if the HDR 10+ lights up on my Panny OLED. Amazon are apparently putting in HDR 10+ for most of their Prime titles. At a fraction of the price of the Apple TV 4K and with the Apple TV app coming, can't see any reason to buy an Apple TV.

[wizardofoz]

I grabbed one last week too, but it wasn’t on special  , I don’t have 4K tv so can’t comment but the older flat 4K fire tv works great. I grabbed a sidekick remote ir universal remote for mine for $10 on special...to control the a remote power and input plus volume and tv on/off...that was a good buy.

[ronildoq]

I almost went ahead with this on prime day, then held back, for one main reason. It doesn’t come with wired connections RJ45, it’s wireless.

How is the wireless streaming signal ? Does it affect the pic quality etc ?

But yea, can’t go wrong with USD25! It’s a steal, does 4k HDR Nd Dolby vision

[Sunblock]

It doesn’t come with wired connections RJ45, it’s wireless.

It is optional for the wired connection ...


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

[ronildoq]

It is optional for the wired connection ...


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Oh can buy the adapter for ethernet connection seperately, thanks for the heads up

[comfortablynumb]

Read that Atmos is not supported for Netflix on the firestick 4K?

[desray]

Read that Atmos is not supported for Netflix on the firestick 4K?

Even the expensive Google Chromecast ultra also dun support Atmos. I recalled Roku Ultra support Atmos.



Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

[rock123]

Guys,

is it just Apple 4K TV can passthrough ATMOS for NetFlix
no other devices right?

Thanks a lot.

[desray]

Guys,

is it just Apple 4K TV can passthrough ATMOS for NetFlix
no other devices right?

Thanks a lot.

At the moment yes. But my Panny UB-420 blurry built-in Netflix app is able to playback Atmos as well. Also if you have Xbox One S/X console, the Netflix app can also playback Atmos as well.