Amazon Fire TV - opinions sought ... (*)
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I have finally convinced she-that-must-be-obeyed that paying vast quantities of (my) money for the privilege of not watching many channels of crap is a waste. Especially as we have the goodly services of Messrs. Prime, Netflix and Hulu. Whereas I am happiest when tinkering with and fixing technology, she is most certainly not. Ergo I'm looking for a foolproof, easy-to-use set-top box that won't involve me (or the kids) to find everything. After reading reviews on line I'm considering the Amazon Fire TV. Comments and viable alternatives welcome. * - Opinion must be relevant to stated item. Opinion must be based on actual use of stated item. Opinion must be based on use longer than 10 minutes of frustrated noob-dom, and will ideally have involved actually getting it to work.
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I have finally convinced she-that-must-be-obeyed that paying vast quantities of (my) money for the privilege of not watching many channels of crap is a waste. Especially as we have the goodly services of Messrs. Prime, Netflix and Hulu. Whereas I am happiest when tinkering with and fixing technology, she is most certainly not. Ergo I'm looking for a foolproof, easy-to-use set-top box that won't involve me (or the kids) to find everything. After reading reviews on line I'm considering the Amazon Fire TV. Comments and viable alternatives welcome. * - Opinion must be relevant to stated item. Opinion must be based on actual use of stated item. Opinion must be based on use longer than 10 minutes of frustrated noob-dom, and will ideally have involved actually getting it to work.
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Don't have an opinion of Amazon Fire TV. But I've used the Wii to acccess Netflix and Prime and find it more than acceptable, even over wifi. There's the occasional lag but I believe that's due to my bandwidth availability. As for usability of the interface, my wife and kids all find it very usable. Often modern DVD players have a built-in access to netflix and other online streaming services. Have you considered Roku[^]? I've heard/read good things about their product. Whatever you do, I think you'd want something that can also stream local content from your LAN.
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I have finally convinced she-that-must-be-obeyed that paying vast quantities of (my) money for the privilege of not watching many channels of crap is a waste. Especially as we have the goodly services of Messrs. Prime, Netflix and Hulu. Whereas I am happiest when tinkering with and fixing technology, she is most certainly not. Ergo I'm looking for a foolproof, easy-to-use set-top box that won't involve me (or the kids) to find everything. After reading reviews on line I'm considering the Amazon Fire TV. Comments and viable alternatives welcome. * - Opinion must be relevant to stated item. Opinion must be based on actual use of stated item. Opinion must be based on use longer than 10 minutes of frustrated noob-dom, and will ideally have involved actually getting it to work.
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I use my Sony DVD player for Netflix access. It works. Barely. I've been considering an alternative and the Roku 3 keeps winning for me. The oddest thing in reviews is that Roku supports Amazon Prime better than Amazon's device.
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I have finally convinced she-that-must-be-obeyed that paying vast quantities of (my) money for the privilege of not watching many channels of crap is a waste. Especially as we have the goodly services of Messrs. Prime, Netflix and Hulu. Whereas I am happiest when tinkering with and fixing technology, she is most certainly not. Ergo I'm looking for a foolproof, easy-to-use set-top box that won't involve me (or the kids) to find everything. After reading reviews on line I'm considering the Amazon Fire TV. Comments and viable alternatives welcome. * - Opinion must be relevant to stated item. Opinion must be based on actual use of stated item. Opinion must be based on use longer than 10 minutes of frustrated noob-dom, and will ideally have involved actually getting it to work.
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I have an Apple TV. It works well, and will stream netflix and hulu plus (not hulu) even without using iTunes. I haven't seen anything concerning Amazon Prime. My daughter uses the XBox, which has apps for all three. A friend of mine swears by his Roku, but he also has a bunch of other gear set up for streaming to ever device in his house. Another friend has that Google dongle, and he really likes it, but I don't know what capabilities or dependencies it has.
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I have finally convinced she-that-must-be-obeyed that paying vast quantities of (my) money for the privilege of not watching many channels of crap is a waste. Especially as we have the goodly services of Messrs. Prime, Netflix and Hulu. Whereas I am happiest when tinkering with and fixing technology, she is most certainly not. Ergo I'm looking for a foolproof, easy-to-use set-top box that won't involve me (or the kids) to find everything. After reading reviews on line I'm considering the Amazon Fire TV. Comments and viable alternatives welcome. * - Opinion must be relevant to stated item. Opinion must be based on actual use of stated item. Opinion must be based on use longer than 10 minutes of frustrated noob-dom, and will ideally have involved actually getting it to work.
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Bought Prime a while ago for free shipping and online TV / Movies. My son and I used his laptop with an HDMI cable to watch Amazon TV. Bought Fire TV for the wife because it would be easier for her to use. She refuses to learn to use it -- says Amazon doesn't have anything she wants to watch.
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I use my Sony DVD player for Netflix access. It works. Barely. I've been considering an alternative and the Roku 3 keeps winning for me. The oddest thing in reviews is that Roku supports Amazon Prime better than Amazon's device.
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I have finally convinced she-that-must-be-obeyed that paying vast quantities of (my) money for the privilege of not watching many channels of crap is a waste. Especially as we have the goodly services of Messrs. Prime, Netflix and Hulu. Whereas I am happiest when tinkering with and fixing technology, she is most certainly not. Ergo I'm looking for a foolproof, easy-to-use set-top box that won't involve me (or the kids) to find everything. After reading reviews on line I'm considering the Amazon Fire TV. Comments and viable alternatives welcome. * - Opinion must be relevant to stated item. Opinion must be based on actual use of stated item. Opinion must be based on use longer than 10 minutes of frustrated noob-dom, and will ideally have involved actually getting it to work.
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Joe Woodbury wrote:
The oddest thing in reviews is that Roku supports Amazon Prime better than Amazon's device.
Better? In what ways?
Roku apparently has better search functionality.