So over the past two years or so amazon
has seen a lot of success with the
Amazon fire TV sticks and just recently
in october they released the second
generation of the TV stick so we're
going to check this thing out today so
stay tuned
so the Amazon fire TV stick is just that
it's a stick that you plug into the HDMI
port on your TV and it's going to allow
you to stream music and video and it can
essentially turn any TV into a smart TV
it's going to come pre-loaded with apps
like Hulu Netflix HBO go and of course
amazon video but it does have access to
thousands of different apps which is
good for cord-cutters, or people who
don't want to pay for satellite or cable
subscriptions and even if there is an
app that you can't find in the Amazon
store you can actually sideload apps
onto it and i'll show you how to do that
in a little bit. So what's new with the
new generation of a Fire Stick?
Well for starters it's going to come with a
quad-core processor so a lot of people
were complaining about their performance
on the old fire stick to being a little
slow little laggy you're not really
going to have those problems with this one. I haven't really had any issues with it. It's noticeably faster. And now the stick
has Alexa built into it so you can
just use the voice remote to talk to
Alexa. You can tell it to play a certain
song you can tell it to play a certain
movie on netflix or something like that
really cool and a new fire TV stick also
comes with wireless AC which is plenty
of speed for you to connect to the
internet to download and stream movies
and it's listed at $39.99 which I
personally think is an amazing price for
what you're getting. It does support up to
1080p or full HD but it doesn't have
support for 4k in order to get 4k you've
got to jump up to the Fire TV box which
is actually still reasonably priced at
$90. So the fire TV stick is really
going to be four three different types
of people
the first group of people is going to be
cord-cutters of people who don't want to
pay for cable or satellite subscriptions
you just basically want to do like local
TV and you want to be able to stream
movies and TV shows that you want to
watch. This works perfectly for that
Amazon is clearly aiming the fire TV and
the fire TV stick at core cutters they
even have a package with an HD antenna
because obviously if you don't have
cable or satellite you're going to need
an antenna.
And nowadays you can actually watch
things like HBO and Showtime without
actually having the cable subscription
you can just pay fees directly to them
and stream them on their own apps and
the second type of person that's gonna
use the fire TV stick is basically going
to be someone who wants a smart TV so
maybe you bought a cheaper TV or you
have an older TV and it doesn't have
smart features or apps on it you're just
going to plug the fire TV stick into it
and it's going to magically turn your TV
into a smart TV. And the third type of
person is basically going to be that
person who wants to jailbreak it you
basically want to install like an app
like Kodi onto it and you can install
all kinds of third-party add-ons we can
get free TV and stuff like that that's
really huge with the fire TV stick and a
bunch of other android-based boxes and
installing third-party apps like Kodi onto
the fire TV stick is really simple and
i'll show you how to do that in a little bit.
alright so this is going to be your home
screen so this is what you're going to
see any time you start up your fire TV
you will see ads at the top which is
kind of one of the ways they keep down
the cost for the fire stick but it's
easy to navigate the interface is very
similar to android TV. Notice you don't
see YouTube here and that's because you
have to actually install YouTube.
alright so i do want to show you the
fire TV app real quick so if you launch
this app it's going to show your list of
fire TV's here so once it connects this
is what you get now this is like a
touchpad so you can like swipe down to
go down and you can tap on something to
select it so if you just tap that's
going to select it like it did netflix
there but my favorite part about the app
is the fact that you have a keyboard
here so instead of you using the
directional pad to slowly type something
in, you can just type it in right there
so that's really nice that you can
actually still use the voice controls
through that as well.
Play Luke Cage on netflix
Alexa: Here's what I found.
Alright so it doesn't like that works it
doesn't bring it right up for you but it
looks like it just kind of shows you.
Is this what you mean? You get the alexa
voice that's pretty cool. Not bad. So while I'm in here I do actually want
to show you how you install third-party
apps and it's really really simple
so first thing you're going to do is go
to settings and you're going to go to
system you're going to scroll all the
way down to developer options. You're
going to turn on ADB debugging and
you're going to allow apps from unknown
sources click OK. You're gonna go to About. Go
to network and now you see your IP
address there so we're going to use that
IP address to install Kodi onto the TV
stick so from this point everything else
is going to be done straight from your
phone so it's really going to be super
straightforward and easy to do.
First thing you're going to do is open up your
browser. You're going to go to Kodi.tv
alright then you're going to go to
download. Downloads right there. I'm going
to keep scrolling down until you see
current release. There it is. ARM.
so you're going to download the file
then you're going to go to the Play
Store you're going to type in Apps2Fire.
there you go. So go ahead and install the
Apps2Fire app. Open that up scroll over
go to setup and here's where you're
going to put the IP address of your fire
alright so once you put in the IP
address there you're going to hit save
Then you're going to hit this upload arrow
here we're gonna hit that depending on
where you downloads go when you download
files it's probably in download so
there's the APK that's the APK we just
downloaded so wherever yours is you
gotta find it once you find it
tap on it hit install and that's it
alright so the app says it was
successful now you notice you see it
says Kodi ready to launch that means
boom it's installed it and it did say
install successful on Apps2Fire app
so now that that's done the very first
thing we're going to do before we forget
let's go down to developer options and
we're going to turn these off now this
is optional but i definitely recommend
you leave those off
there's Kodi. Go ahead and fire it up
Alright, there you go. Kodi is loaded and
fully functioning so from this point you
can follow the hundreds of different
tutorials that they have for installing
different Kodi add-ons like Exodus and
the others and i will post some links on
how to do those. So at $39.99 this is going
to definitely be a tough deal to beat.
I do think they have a winner here with
the fire TV stick considering that it's
more powerful. It's capable as ever and it's
super cheap. Alright guys that's going to be
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