Hey everybody ,
welcome back to the blog. I'm gonna tell you how you can spend 30 dollars as a one-time payment to cancel your cable forever and turn any TV into a smart TV using the newest amazon firetv stick.So, this is going to be an in-depth review of this stick and essentially how you can plug it into the back of any TV.The apps you can get on it how well ,it works with different TVs as well as what is different about the newest remote which supposedly can control any TV as well as The fire stick.
So there's a lot to talk about in this article. let's jump right into it.
So I've seen a lot of other article out there about the fire stick and some of them are just plain unboxings. Theydidn't talk about them,some of them are older versions, some of them talked about
apps that you can't get on here anymore and so I wanted to make an updated one.
For 2019 or 2020 the newest model of the Amazon fire TV stick to really tell you guys you know whether or not. you want to buy this is this something that actually is worth it for you to spend $40 or $30. On this and buy it for your TV or is it you know maybe it's not for everybody maybe you want to stick with your cable and your antenna and your satellite or whatever you might be using so there's really a lot to talk about here.
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First I want to say if you're not familiar with amazon firetv sticks you don't actually need an Amazon Prime account so it's not gonna be any monthly charge to you to use this. It's just gonna be you know whatever you pay up front so 30 dollars to buy this and then
you'll set up an Amazon account which won't cost you any money and you don't have to sign up for Prime and it'll still work just fine. You just won't get all the Amazon Prime channels you can
still get free TV and lots of other apps. on here I'll talk about those later on in this video so if you're looking at this and you're gonna say all right Piyali.
I get it this little black rectangle plugs into the back of my TV but maybe it doesn't fit on my TV so what if you have a TV that you know you plug this up. underneath and the TV curves out and
then this stick is so long it doesn't fit well lucky for you it's 2019 right.
Now and that is the year of the dongle. so this is by no exception you have a dongle coming in the box you can plug this in and you know complete your whole home to ongo system and just plug it
into the back your TV in any orientation. So really convenient right there and then if we can get a close-up right here.
You'll see the only other thing on this little box, this little fire stick is actually the power port right there so looking at this Amazon fire TV stick up, close this is the newest generation. It's 3.4 inches long 1.2 inches wide and 1/2 inch thick so relatively small and as I
said you can use the dongle if it doesn't fit on the back of your TV
you have the HDMI output right there and then you also have your micro USB power supply on the side so this can show up to 1080p for 60 frames per second. it weighs 1.1 ounces, so as I said relatively small the processor on theinside is quad core erm 1.3 gigahertz. So, it's gonna be decently quick a much quicker than some of the older models. You might have seen this also has 8
gigabytes of internal storage that's primarily going to be for apps or photos .You're not gonna be really be able to download any videos on this and watch like if your power or your internet goes
out or anything of that sort .So you really won't be banking on this for entertainment. If you lose internet for some reason now this also has bluetooth 4.1 plus Lapera or le pair. I'm not exactly sure how you say that but essentially what you can do is you can
connect peripheral devices besides just the remote and use them for you know so gaming for example or you can use maybe headphones you can have wireless headphones with this and I'll talk about that in a second so dual band dual antenna Wi-Fi and it's an IR device control, so on the remote right here you'll see there is IR here so you can control your TV and it should be almost any TV out there all you have to do is input the model or the make of your TV and it'll automatically program. So you can turn it on or you can turn the volume up or down or of course you can mute it you also have the regular buttons in the middle here which are going to be controlling essentially your fire stick ,so you have your up-down
left-right which is this little ring .Right here which honestly is pretty similar to like the old iPods the only thing I really wish they had like the little ring or you could do your album flow you can spin around like that. So you can't do that on here unfortunately
you have a middle button there that's your OK button you'll have you know.You're back home menu rewind play fast-forward the same normal six buttons there and then you also have on the top
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a little microphone button and above that is the microphone so why is there a microphone right there so Amazon can sit
in a basement with hundreds of peoplelistening to your conversations. Just kidding ,sort of really what it is so that you can use Amazon Alexa on your TV so a really powerful way to make your TV a smart TV and even a smart home to some extent where you can control like a Philips you light bulb or maybe
some Lutron lights or whatever you might be using if you have an echo somewhere around your house you can control it all with this you could order pizza order an uber you could look up the weather
there's you know endless things you can do with Amazon's Alexa and of coursethis is an Alexa enabled device now.
What's cool about this new remote well it's when they first came out with the Amazon fire TV and honestly for that matter the Roku and so many other devices.
It became annoying that you had your other TV remote that all it would do was turn your TV on and off and then adjust the volume. You had these you know the number pad that didn't do anything you can't control the channels with that remote anymore and so all of a sudden you had two remotes just to turn your TV on and then to select what you wanted to watch so Amazon came up with a nifty idea of turning your TV on and off with this It's really simple, it doesn't actually change the size of this really at all it's still essentially just a simple little remote much smaller than
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most other remotes for that matter andit's really a very convenient feature to.
Okay so guys to be clear the biggest difference between this and the old fire sticks that you might have seen and I'm talking even as old as just last year is really the difference in the remote.
So as you can see the buttons right there the mute the volume down volume up and the power button in the top corner should be able to control any TV that's on their list and they have hundreds of TV's on there. So here I have a Magnavox a pretty old TV .Actually I think it's about ten years old, so we're gonna see if it works on this one. So first we're just gonna hit volume up and volume down and you'll see right there it is actually changing the volume when we hit the mute button. It's looking like that's not actually muting the TV all right .Now let's try the off and on button all right .So, the off button is working yeah off and on is working and it looks like
basically this is working very well. Although the other day I did notice that when I unplugged the fire stick after a few minutes eventually this stopped controlling my TV and I guess it drifted
away and was no longer paired and when you first turn on your fire TV stick the very first time it'll ask you to select the language and then it's gonna walk.
You through a basic configuration I'm gonna fast-forward through that right.Now to tell you guys just you know it's really pretty simple to set this thing up it's then gonna ask you to sign in to
your Amazon account. Okay, now while this is happening I want to tell you guys the app really quickly . The apps not that exciting it acts just like the remote so.It's not going to be like the chromecast.
You're not really casting very easily but it still can be a little easier to type and make things go a little quicker.Then it's gonna bring you to this page right here and ask you what kind of TV you have there are hundreds of different TV brands, So, you just go
down and find whatever TV brand you have. Select it and then it's gonna tell you to go up and down on the volume, so let's just say whatever land on that one is not actually a TV I'm using but we're
just gonna show you right now so you'll tell you yes it's gonna be a volume playing and is it working and then your setup .Now here to tell you about how to use the remote. I'm just gonna skip that because I already know how to do this so it tells you at the bottom you just skip .Right through all this stuff now here's where it recommends you get Amazon Prime you don't need it.
So, choose your streaming services you can choose different ones.so let's just say you have you know whatever apps down here,select which ones you want so. Looking at the actual interface of this you'll see it's not all that different from like a Kindle or something else where they have their home screen with all the different apps that you have and they sort of try to organize it. So,you have like the ones that you most recently use they have a sponsorship right there. They do plug a lot of their prime stuff so they're gonna say if you have Amazon Prime you can watch these
Prime series then they have other things that you might want to get different things .You know your cable subscription if you can sign in through cable like if for some reason you have a cable subscription you still want to use. A fire stick you can use these you can go down and find things to rent or buy.
There's a lot of different options down here and once you add other apps that like the free ones so if you add to be or if you add Pluto TV they're gonna show up with like what's on right now and you can easily watch different channels that are on for free. So let's
go and get an app right .Now I'll tell you guys how to do that. It's really simple .All you want to do is go up and go over to search and you can search for it right here. Once you select it it says you own it of course that just means that it's totally free to download and
then it's going to download and once you get it you can actually start using other things. You can navigate the regular interface here while it's downloading in the background and then it'll just pop up whenever it's ready .So this is a little bit of a noisy interface in my opinion it could be a little cleaner a little easier to use but they do try to organize everything right here one thing they don't do quite as well as a Roku is when you search for different movies they sort of plug their own stuff first and they don't do the really nice Roku thing where they sort them by price.So, you have your videos movies TV shows apps and settings
settings of course is going to be where you're going to be able to connect like a Bluetooth device if you want to listen to you know whatever you're watching on TV with your earbuds one complaint. AsI said earlier is that I wasn't really able to control the volume very easily for my earbuds using this device but you can go through and select your sounds and applications you can adjust your controller in any way you want and of course you also have the peripheral devices if you have headphones or anything of that sort so there's a lot of settings in here I recommend you go and check them out once you get your fire stick if you choose to get one but otherwise I'm not going to cover a whole.
lot more of this so back across the top we're just going back to the home page there and going down. Let's see if they installed our app
yet so right there Pluto TV is one of the first free TV apps you can get there's also you can use Kodi and get some other channels through there like you saw saw before to be was another one.
So, Pluto TV they have a lot of different channels that are totally free here similar to antenna TV so they're not going to be like the best channels but they'll have like the food network and a couple other channels of that sort and I can actually cover this in another article. If you guys want go down and comment and let me know if you are interested in this another thing I should mention is that the apps for this sync across different devices so if you sign in on
here or if you sign in to your internet on here and then you get a Kindle later. It can typically sign into your internet automatically and use a lot of the same apps use a lot of the same accounts and
they make it really seamless if you have a lot of different Amazon devices. So now let's talk a little bit more about Alexa now all you to do with the remote is press and hold the microphone button and
then you can talk and say whatever you want .So, let's say example we're wondering what the weather's like Alexa. What's the weather like in Miami today and another thing to note guys is that you can see in the background all the apps that I chose in the beginning are downloading right now and they're popping up that's why those little pop-ups keep happening in the corner but right there. You see we have the weather so it works you can do a lot of other stuff you can ask you questions it'll Google things or search it I don't know
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if ease goggle actually but you can do a lot of other features well you can access a lot of things with the Alexa right here. Let's try it open Pluto TV Alexa open Pluto TV. So it'll easily open a lot of different apps that you have although sometimes navigating
within the apps isn't always the most convenient using this fire TV stick sometimes it's easier to actually navigate through the apps using the remote but if it's like an Amazon app.
You've using Amazon Prime video you can easily ask it to pull up any show or movie or even you know a particular episode if you're interested in that. Okay so from the home screen let's go up and go check out the apps if you go to the apps tab across the top and you go down they'll suggest like a ton of different apps so you might be interested in getting most of these are free to download and let's just go down .They have you know just to show you some of the great ones that they have so they have you know plenty of different movies and TV show apps they have sports apps they've got .You know any kind of like network that has their own app you can get those.
Whether games you know lots of different stuff and then so games right here. Let's get cross the road and see how that works oh you're not going to be playing any big games on this but if you're
interested in playing like snake or pong or whatever or cross the road for this ,example it's definitely something that could work if you want to do that on your TV I'm not really sure how many people want to do that let me know in. The comments down below if this is
something you're interested in doing alright so it looks like Crossy Road is now downloaded .let's go down and open that another thing there no guys I forgot to mention this before you can
actually use this on an old TV like I said if you get a little adapter I'll link that in the description or you can use it on a new TV even a smart TV and just make the TV smarter or Alexa enabled or whatever you're looking for and another thing I really like to do is
actually plug this into a projector and suddenly you don't need a laptop sitting next to it whenever you want to play movies or TV on your on your projector.
So what's my overall opinion of the fire stick honestly for just $30 it is a really nice device it's great that you can control your TV and the fire stick with the same remote, so that's a huge step up from the previous models we might have seen .I wish there was a casting option a little more you know just so it's easier to cast from your phone or your laptop it's not something.
I like about the chromecast a little better than this but overall this is a great home theater system that you can plug into any TV or projector and instantly turn it into a smart TV so, that's my opinion what do you guys think let me know down in the comments below.
I'll see you next time
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