![]() ![]() You actually have to back out of the previews to get to the homepage. ![]() This Amazon-centric approach is even more obvious when you wake the Fire TV Stick back up as you’ll be assaulted by previews of Amazon content or commercials. But, it’s still a fairly intuitive setup that can only be faulted by the fact that the homepage favors Prime content. It’s all a matter of preference as I would prefer a bunch of app icons to open first and then select content as you would on a Roku or Apple TV. You can essentially open a recommended series or movie without launching the app first. It’s not a make or break thing, but is a nice addition.Īs far as the interface itself, it’s intuitive to use, but has a small amount of apps available on the home screen – you have to go to the app page to see all the apps you have installed – and instead uses most of its screen space for previews of featured content on top and individual selections on the bottom. It will also show the time, weather, and a selection of widgets with more information. The Ambient Experience is a feature only found on this model and is essentially a sleep screen that shows a slowly rotating library of artwork including landscape photographs, personal photographs (hosted on Amazon photos of course), and dynamic art just to name a few of the options. Again, it’s a feature some might see as a gimmick, but as someone who regularly watches TV and then pauses it to write, say, a review on a certain Amazon product, having something more visually interesting than a floating icon on the screen is nice. More impressive software-wise is the Ambient Experience. It is playable, but shouldn’t be a big consideration for getting this unless you don’t have any other alternatives. I had no issues streaming video for hours, but plenty of latency issues when playing a game in Luna. Speaking of the Luna app, you can game on this streaming stick (for an additional $10 a month), but it’s at 720p and requires a very strong and stable internet connection. Even using Alexa in the remote worked without much in the way of latency. ![]() Whether I was playing video or even gaming via the cloud-based Luna app, this Fire TV Stick was prompt. While I didn’t see much difference between it and the non-Max version, these devices are somewhat hard to push to their limits. It’s actually surprising how quick it is for a streaming stick, though I’m sure that quad-core CPU helps. This iteration also comes with an enhanced remote with Alexa built-in.Īs far as performance goes, the Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K Max (2023) is very speedy. Like the non-Max version but unlike the 1080p offerings, this Fire TV Stick supports 4K resolution and the Dolby Vision, HDR10+, and HLG high dynamic range formats. Additionally, if you need it, this version comes with 16GB of storage, the most of any of Amazon’s streaming sticks. Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K Max 2023 at Amazon for $65.98Īs far as internal components go, this is the most powerful of the Fire TV Sticks as it comes with a quad-core 2.0GHz processor and Wi-Fi 6E support – the non-Max one has a 1.7GHz CPU and Wi-Fi 6 instead.The Fire TV Stick 4K Max (2023) comes with everything you need to plug in and start streaming. ![]()
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