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I've heard that Amazon has a scoring system in place for customers (although not visible to its customer service agents). Its affected by purchase quantity, returns to purchase rate, prime or not, quantity of ratings and helpfulness/positivity of those ratings, length of time doing business w/ Amazon, being in a city w/ a Amazon warehouse hub, etc. This allows Amazon to have preferred customers and on the other extreme blacklisted customers (for abusing returns typically).if If so I wonder what the criteria was as I already bought two 4K firesticks in the past year from amazon and I still qualified for the promotion so I bought third.
Considered buying one with the ethernet adapter, then I saw it was only 10/100. Why the fark will TV and smart device manufacturers not put gigabit Ethernet ports on their devices?
I get it's a small amount of people that would benefit, but would cost could it possibly add?
Yes these are powerful. I prefer using the firestick to my TV software. So much faster and doesn't error outFor anybody who hasn't picked up one of these yet - do it. They're insanely powerful for the money and crazy-useful. Between the remote and the hardware within the device, I'd be surprised if Amazon is even breaking even at $50, let alone $25.
Not even 4k video pushes that high. It's irrelevant if it's gigabit. Gigabit isics and phys cost more $. If the application doesn't require the performance, why bother with the cost?
I have nearly every single TV, stick, and console, hardwired. I have never seen a TV stick regardless of brand, or smart TV push even 50mbps.
TCL is trying to be the Kia of TVs. Trying to throw in all the bells and whistles it can. They are doing some very interesting things. MicroLED and so on. Makes sense they are trying to check another box.I make uncompressed rips of all my 4K Blu's for Plex. Those frequently top 100mbps. Highest i've seen yet is ~190mbps. I realize there aren't many of us doing this, but to make it work, gigabit is absolutely essential.
Apple TV 4K and Nvidia Shield are both gigabit (as they damn well should be for the price). I also have a TCL TV with a gigabit port. But rather annoyingly the LG OLED that costs three times as much does not.
Solution: Rip them in x265 and save yourself a ton of storage space and bandwidth so you can watch them on iPad and what not outside of the home as well. I doubt any of us could tell the difference in a blind "taste test" if you use quality settings.I make uncompressed rips of all my 4K Blu's for Plex. Those frequently top 100mbps. Highest i've seen yet is ~190mbps.
I make uncompressed rips of all my 4K Blu's for Plex. Those frequently top 100mbps. Highest i've seen yet is ~190mbps. I realize there aren't many of us doing this, but to make it work, gigabit is absolutely essential.
Apple TV 4K and Nvidia Shield are both gigabit (as they damn well should be for the price). I also have a TCL TV with a gigabit port. But rather annoyingly the LG OLED that costs three times as much does not.
Sorry but a pure BR rip is going to stutter over Wifi, even AC, simply due to how WiFi works. Sure you can do 1080 now, and highly compressed 4k (netflix/ apple TV) but pure rips will eat Wifi for breakfast....as least the rips I have in the 40-60G range do....The FireTV 4K stick can do >200Mb/s over WiFi if it's close to the access point. Otherwise you can use a USB -> gigabit ethernet adapter (not made by Amazon), which is good for 300Mb/s or something like that.
Sorry but a pure BR rip is going to stutter over Wifi, even AC, simply due to how WiFi works. Sure you can do 1080 now, and highly compressed 4k (netflix/ apple TV) but pure rips will eat Wifi for breakfast....as least the rips I have in the 40-60G range do....
Sorry but a pure BR rip is going to stutter over Wifi, even AC, simply due to how WiFi works. Sure you can do 1080 now, and highly compressed 4k (netflix/ apple TV) but pure rips will eat Wifi for breakfast....as least the rips I have in the 40-60G range do....
Man you convinced me to try a cube.... but it looks like the cube sale is over. I'll keep an eye out for it.Not showing up for me, but for those that can access the deal: this newer-gen Fire TV Stick is worlds better than the first-gen, and would be a worthwhile upgrade. The difference in performance is like night and day.
Also, the Fire TV Cube 4K is on sale for $89.99 prime shipping. If you want a more stationary solution and even better hardware than the Fire Stick, don't even hesitate to grab one. Been using mine since last December and it's truly an amazing device: it will even control the power on/off and volume of most HDTVs with the included IR extender, and you can even simply tell it commands like: "Alexa, turn on the TV" and "Alexa, turn down the volume".
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07KGVB6D6/
Even if you already have a Smart TV, connecting one of these is unarguably a much better way of getting to all your streaming services.
Man you convinced me to try a cube.... but it looks like the cube sale is over. I'll keep an eye out for it.
Solution: Rip them in x265 and save yourself a ton of storage space and bandwidth so you can watch them on iPad and what not outside of the home as well. I doubt any of us could tell the difference in a blind "taste test" if you use quality settings.
Deal worked for me. Replacing a gen 2 regular stick. Can't stand how laggy it is menus bit the 4k is smooth as butter
Not sure what the deal is with these Firesticks; they are awesome at first...then over time they become very sluggish and slow...even after a complete reset.
First generation, and second generation.. im sure this is the same trend with the new one.
It's almost like they "wear out"..but im sure there has to be some technical, scientific reason why