- So here's a question I'm getting a lot
as we're heading into the holiday shopping season.
You know you want to get an Amazon Fire TV,
because it's really good for streaming video,
but the real question is which one to get,
because they all kind of do the same thing,
it's just that the devil's really in the details.
I think it's a pretty easy decision, actually,
and this won't take long to explain.
You ready?
Let's go.
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All right, so we've got three Amazon Fire TV devices
to talk about, let's break 'em down real quick.
Now at $39, we have the low end Amazon Fire TV Stick.
It's well, it's a stick.
It tops out at 1080P resolution,
and while that's gonna be just fine for a lot
of you guys out there, if you have a 4K TV,
the Stick isn't gonna be able to take advantage
of all those extra pixels.
Now it doesn't do HDR of any kind,
so colors aren't gonna get that little bit of extra pop.
And it also doesn't support Dolby Atmos audio.
Now there's a pretty good chance
you don't have Dolby Atmos yet, but if you do,
you know how cool it is and why you want it.
It's also a couple years old already,
and it's running on an older version of Android,
so I just don't know how much longer
it's gonna get updated.
And it doesn't ship with the new Alexa voice remote
which has proper volume and power buttons.
You want this, trust me.
Next we have the brand new Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K.
It's $10 more than the low end stick so it's 49 bucks.
You'll never guess what it does by the name.
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Okay, you might guess that it's a stick and it does 4K,
and it has Fire TV.
So it also has support for HDR10, which is cool.
But even more important than that
is that this is Amazon's first device
to have Dolby vision support on board.
Now, HDR10 is great for HDR, it's just fine.
Dolby Vision is much better though.
If you have a TV that does Dolby Vision,
you want all your hardware to be able
to do Dolby Vision too.
And you know it does the Dolby Atmos thing for audio.
Again, you got, that's great.
And because this is a newer device,
it's running newer software and it's gonna
be updated longer.
It also runs faster than that cheaper stick.
And finally, there's the Amazon Fire TV Cube,
which is strangely enough, shaped like a cube.
And it's basically what you would get
if you combine 2017's Amazon Fire TV pendant thing,
with the brand new Amazon Echo Dot.
It's got a bunch of microphones built in, plus a speaker,
so you can just yell at it to do things
just like you would Amazon Echo.
It's also able to use your voice to control your TV,
which is great if you wanna actually
use your voice to control the TV.
But in reality, I found that to be pretty horrible.
I would rather be quiet and use a remote control,
and that's where that new Amazon voice remote comes in.
And it's also shipping with the Amazon Fire TV Cube,
which is great.
Now you can control volume without yelling at things.
So, three Amazon Fire TVs, that's what we got, right?
That's what we gotta pick from.
We got the low end at $39, the high end at $119.
So which one should you get?
If I were you, I would get the new
Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K, here's why.
First, it's got all the specs you want, okay,
including 4K resolution and Dolby Vision.
Plus it also has that new remote control.
Now if you just have to have Amazon Alexa built it,
that's great, do it.
You can actually get the Fire TV Stick 4K bundled
with a brand new Amazon Echo Dot for about $70, $80,
depending on when it's on sale.
And that's still way less than what you'd spend
for an Amazon Fire TV Cube, right?
Plus, you get Dolby Vision thrown in.
So it's kind of a no-brainer if you ask me,
which you did, which is why we're here talking now.
So that's what I'd do if I were gonna buy
a brand new Amazon Fire TV today, or tomorrow,
or probably next week or next month.
Go get the $49 Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K.
Oh, and by the way, it's ready to use
with the brand new Amazon Fire TV Recast.
I'll have more on that later.
It's, really cool box that you hook into
and over to your antenna, and lets you watch free TV
all over the house on your Fire TVs.
So more on that coming up.
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