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I’ve been PCMag’s home entertainment expert for over 10 years, covering both TVs and everything you might want to connect to them. I’ve reviewed more than a thousand different consumer electronics products including headphones, speakers, TVs, and every major game system and VR headset of the last decade. I’m an ISF-certified TV calibrator and a THX-certified home theater professional, and I’m here to help you understand 4K, HDR, Dolby Vision, Dolby Atmos, and even 8K (and to reassure you that you don’t need to worry about 8K at all for at least a few more years). Editors' Note: This is the most recent version of the Amazon Fire TV Stick. Read our original review from November 6, 2020 below. We first reviewed Amazon's third-generation Fire TV Stick late last year. This year, it stealthily released a revised version, updating the remote while keeping the Fire TV Stick Design and Hardware Physically, the third-generation Fire TV Stick is identical to the The remote is the biggest change on the new Fire TV. It’s the third generation of Amazon’s Alexa voice remote, with a slightly tweaked design and a bit more functionality. It’s still a thin black wand with slightly rounded ends, and is the exact same size and shape as the previous Alexa voice remote. It also still has the same prominent circular navigation pad, pinhole microphone for using Alexa (though the Alexa button is now a blue Alexa logo instead of a black microphone), playback controls, and TV power and volume control...

By November 17, 2022 Share If you’ve been looking for a fast, cheap, and user-friendly way to experience the growing world of streaming media, an Amazon Fire TV product is an excellent option for all your Netflix-adjacent needs. With most of Amazon’s hardware requiring nothing more than a Wi-Fi connection and a TV to plug into, you’ll be able to get connected to all that content in no time at all. Alexa Voice Remote with TV controls The Amazon Fire TV Stick is identical to the Amazon Fire TV Stick Lite, with only a couple of exceptions. The Fire TV Stick includes TV controls on the remote and native support for Dolby Atmos. The cost of the Amazon Fire TV Stick is $40 for those extra features, while the Lite is just $30 (and frequently on sale for much less), making it not only the least expensive Fire TV device you can buy but also one of the least expensive media streamers, period. That said, the Fire TV Stick and its Lite version share all kinds of great features, and it’s up to you to decide which are most important to you. Related • • • Both devices share a blazing-fast interface, tons of great content, and a wide selection of apps and games. An optional Ethernet adapter is available, but their 802.11ac Wi-Fi connection should be plenty fast for most users, especially as the devices are limited to 1080p HD content. The latest 3rd-generation models include 1GB of memory, and in 2021, the Fire TV and Fire TV Lite remotes were upgraded with the newer 3rd-gen Alexa Voice R...

Amazon’s new Fire TV Stick is a $39.99 streaming dongle that’s aimed at people who haven’t yet made the upgrade to a 4K TV — and don’t intend to anytime soon. It maxes out at 1080p video resolution, but offers support for modern tricks like HDR and Dolby Atmos surround sound. That’s a weird zone to be in when rival products like the Chromecast with Google TV go all-in on 4K for not much more money. If that’s your situation, you’re definitely getting a more powerful streamer than before. Amazon says the new Fire TV Stick is 50 percent faster than the previous version — but it looks identical on the outside. It’s still a matte black stick that plugs into one of your TV’s HDMI ports. You attach a Micro USB cable to it for power, toss some batteries in the Alexa voice remote, and you’re off and running. This is the same full-fledged remote that comes with Amazon’s pricier streaming devices, so in addition to playback and navigation controls, you get some extra buttons (power and volume) for controlling your TV with it. The Fire TV Stick Lite’s remote doesn’t include those. The improved performance is noticeable. Amazon’s older Fire TV Stick could sometimes get hung up or slow down when scrolling around or opening apps, but I rarely encountered anything of the sort with this new model. It feels on par with the more premium 4K-capable Fire TV products in terms of speed. Voice searches with the Alexa remote were similarly quick, whether I was searching for a certain show or askin...

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Further Reading Today, though, the company is unveiling two new TV lines of its own: a Here’s a list of size and pricing details for each of the new Amazon TVs: Amazon Fire TV Omni Series • 43-inch: • 50-inch: • 55-inch: • 65-inch: • 75-inch: Amazon Fire TV 4-Series • 43-inch: • 50-inch: • 55-inch: Amazon says each model will be available in the US starting in October at Amazon and Best Buy, just ahead of the holiday shopping season. The 50-inch 4-Series and Omni Series TVs will be $110 off as part of a limited-time preorder promo starting today. Each of the new TVs uses an LED panel with a 4K resolution and support for the HDR10 and HLG The rest of the specs appear to be somewhat basic. Each set includes four HDMI ports, including variable refresh rate ( (Update 1:10 pm ET: An Amazon representative reached out after this article’s publication to clarify that the new sets do support VRR, albeit only from 48 Hz to 60 Hz at 4K.) Instead, each panel maxes out at a more common 60 Hz. Amazon confirmed that the TVs do not support full-array local dimming, either, Last week's Insider report said that the new Amazon TVs would be manufactured by third parties, one of which was popular Chinese TV maker TCL (which also makes a TV called the Advertisement Further Reading As with most of its Alexa equipment, Amazon is selling these TVs on the idea of a simplified user experience, seemingly more than pure image quality. And since these are the first widely available Amazon-branded sets,...