Aaron Macarthy Beards
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I use all of 10 apps on my Roku all of which are available on the Fire. The rest are pretty pointless or niche.It undercuts the Roku 4K Stick and is priced similar to the new 4K Now TV Box, however both still falls short on the number of apps that are available compared to the Roku. (Although Dolby Vision is a plus point)
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Even more of a bargain on Black Friday week, probably half price.
I think where will be plenty of people on here that may not see Amazon Video as being that great... and plenty of others that do like it, for me, this announcement isn't about how good Amazon Video is... for me, it's where this is leading... Amazon is making it's move... and it's wants to win...
I have a BT UHD box... I am still waiting for the promised Amazon Video app, the box will also NEVER support Dolby Vision, and even though BT launched their UHD service 3 years ago, there is no HDR of ANY KIND... SKY, still no HDR, visit the SKY forums you can read the frustration of users waiting for SKY to implement it...
This for me is about how SLOW the UK telcos have been, Amazon have launched the Fire TV Recast in the US, and plan to add advert removal and content discovery features... and they will...
We know Amazon have started to acquire sporting rights, we know they have hired a head of live programming... right now it does not matter about how good Amazon Video is... the fact that they support HDR10, HDR10+, Dolby Vision, HLG, and Dolby Atmos on this new hardware means that all the other apps can now start using the hardware...
...very different approach to the drip feeding of features from UK telcos... well maybe BT will get around to supporting HLG in 2019... but then maybe take another 3 years to add another HDR format...
Netflix and Amazon are running circles around the traditional telcos... who need to up their game, or in the same way that Amazon has pretty much destroyed the traditional high street, they will come to dominate the TV scene, why??? Because there is NO competition...
Rant over, now making a cup of tea...
I find it very bizarre that Amazon would release this and utterly dump all over their own UHD. There have been many threads on this, so I wont repeat too much, but if they release this without a better app with easy to find Amazon content? Ugh, it's the worst case of the right hand not knowing what the left hand is doing of any tech company in the world. Ever. Their app is honest to goodness an unfathomably bad joke.Given the low selection of 4K content on Amazon Prime, and the way much of the actual 4K content is buried on my TV, Xbox and other Prime apps it seems to be a bit pointless.
Amazon has a terrible system of giving users 4K. Netflix just has one copy of each show - which shows in HD on HD kit, and 4K on 4K kit. Amazon has two versions of each show, the HD and the 4K, and doesn't make it clear when the 4K one exists or where it could be found. They need to seriously look at this.
I absolutely detest the UI on both the Prime Video app (regardless of platform) and the Fire Stick. Absolutley terrible experience.
It's a shame that there is no (in my view anyway) perfect streaming player that supports 4k, all the HDR formats, Atmos, all the main Apps (BBC, ITV/STV, All4, Demand 5, YouTube, Netflix, Prime Video, NowTV etc) and has a user friendly/customisable UI.
Am I right in believing that none of these players supports Dolby Vision, HLG and Amazon Video (except NVIDIA Shield which is the only one AFAIK to have the official app).I absolutely detest the UI on both the Prime Video app (regardless of platform) and the Fire Stick. Absolutley terrible experience.
It's a shame that there is no (in my view anyway) perfect streaming player that supports 4k, all the HDR formats, Atmos, all the main Apps (BBC, ITV/STV, All4, Demand 5, YouTube, Netflix, Prime Video, NowTV etc) and has a user friendly/customisable UI.
Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K specifications:Am I right in believing that none of these players supports Dolby Vision, HLG and Amazon Video (except NVIDIA Shield which is the only one AFAIK to have the official app).