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Cliff’s Notes: If you watch/listen mostly to Prime content, you will love this. And you can pay for some subscription-based services to customize what you want to watch. Reliable with great video/sound.
I wanted to cut the cord from my TV provider and decided to go with Amazon’s Fire products. The Amazon 4K Fire TV is an upgrade to the Fire TV Stick. I have a newer Firestick and bought the 4K Fire TV after that because I wanted to be able to add apps outside the Amazon store. Going into developer mode and turning on those permissions allowed me to add some apps I wanted that were not in Amazon’s store easily and with no installation issues.
To ensure you get the best picture for your TV resolution, you should go into the settings and ensure that the Auto-detect setting is set. This way you can be sure it is providing 1080, 2k or 4k, depending on your TV specs.
I have 200 mbps FIOS internet through an AC band router using the 5 Ghz band and it streams effortlessly with no slowdown, glitches, or delays. The interface is well designed, but be aware that you might need to scroll down on some screens to get something you want outside of the Prime offerings, as they list things with Amazon services first.
Amazon sends this to you with your account already set-up…great customer experience. You can also set up a password for purchases, in case you have children or others that might inadvertently buy new content. Of course, Prime services are preloaded, but you might need to add some items like Netflix, which is very easy using their setup mode.
The Alexa integration on the voice activated remote is great. You can ask Alexa to show you action movies, the weather, etc. I found the response to be fast and pretty accurate, although it might take a little learning how to best ask Alexa for things to get the best responses.
Another probably not used as much item is the Bluetooth…with that, I have connected a Bluetooth keyboard that REALLY is a time saver when you have to put in passwords, or put in a URL address if you are adding something outside the Amazon store. Bluetooth can be used for headphones also, if you want to watch/listen while not disturbing others.
Negatives (not deal breakers):
Amazon should allow more competitor apps…after all, if this is for entertainment and people use different apps/services, they should have it available. You can add them yourself, but that should not be necessary. This is putting Amazon OVER the customer needs.
Also, not having an ethernet port might not be criminal, but it is again because Amazon wants you to BUY another device, rather than provide what should be in the box. Greed like that is inexcusable.
The HDMI cable should be longer…I had to attach an extender to mine to get it where I wanted since my audio and video components are on wall shelving.
There are not as many free apps as you might expect, so it would be nice to have a filter for just free apps.
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