Amazon.com.au:Customer reviews: All-new Fire TV Stick | Alexa Voice Remote with TV Controls | HD streaming device

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Expand your existing TV’s smart capability

Reviewed in Australia on 25 April 2021

This stick adds excellent smart TV capability to any TV, via a HDMI port. The model I purchased (HD with TV control) has a built-in universal TV remote, which worked with my 2009 Panasonic Viera TV right out of the box, no setup needed.

It is noticeably faster and more responsive than my old Amazon Fire Stick and the audio is louder and clearer on the new model.

It gives you the option on setup to import your apps and settings from your old Amazon device (if you had one linked to your amazon account, which I did), and it saved a lot of time setting it up.

It has all the popular Australian TV streaming apps, 9Now, 7+, 10 Play, ABC iview and SBS on demand. It also has Plex, Netflix, Disney, Stan, Spotify and many more.

I would definitely recommend this to anyone wanting to expand their TV’s capability.

I’m now thinking about getting the 4K Amazon Fire stick to use on my 4K Sony android TV because the built in apps are quite slow to load and sometimes crash.

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James Rodrigo

Good product, navigation and menu has room for improvement to make it more user friendly.

Reviewed in Australia on 19 May 2021

Overall I am happy with the build quality, the scope of the product.
The apps downloaded and subscribed don't always show up on the first screen, other than that it works well and picture quality is and refresh is great! Menu navigation ("User Friendly") aspects has room for improvement.
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Maree Summers

Expand your existing TV’s smart capability

Reviewed in Australia on 25 April 2021

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Authentic

Inserting batteries

Reviewed in Australia on 2 May 2021

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Remote is very difficult to open to insert batteries. Best way is to find a flat & firm surface; put an unfolded towel on that surface; put remote on the towel; place and keep index finger on circle indentation on the back of the remote; slide remote cover down at the same time. All done.

The only thing i don't like about the fire stick is that when you turn it off at the remote, your TV automatically shuts down as well. There is no way to override this. So, if you plan on watching a dvd or TV after streaming with the fire stick, be prepared to switch the TV back on again.

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Katherine C.

Great idea, terribly hard to set up

Reviewed in Australia on 13 June 2021

Verified Purchase

Arrived today and was keen to get it set up. The set up was excruciating - the paid apps were easy eg netflix, amazon prime but it refused to even recognise the free to air channels and the main reason I wanted this was to be able to watch the subscription and free to air channels through an easy to use interface. It took about 3 hours and required me to spend a lot of time looking up troubleshooting other people had done to work out why. In essence the problems were amazon thought I was in a differnet country and so initially wouldn't let me access the freeview apps at all eg abc iview, then once I worked out how to sort my country settings it still said purchase failed time after time even though these are free apps. I managed to work out it was owing to the 1 click setting not being enabled but even that didn't fix it. I ended up having to re-register my account about 5 times, did a factory reset in the end and eventually got everything working as it should but honestly it shouldn't be this hard esp as none of the instructions included suggested that anything like that needed to be done. Hopefully the ease of use makes up for the bad start.

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Brandan Cotton

Hard to sign in

Reviewed in Australia on 17 June 2021

Verified Purchase

This issue was rectified by Amazon, apparently the country settings for my account were associated with amazon.com and not .com.au? This was rectified promptly after I left this review. I've left my experience here regardless: "I was hoping this device would be easy to use for family members etc. However it is extremely difficult to get past the initial sign in during the 2FA sign in process where the device prompts you to go to amazon.com.au/code, which isn't even a valid URL! I eventually managed to guess to go to amazon.com/code (for anyone else having the same trouble). Not really good enough!"

Now that I've spent some time with the device (after logging in), I'm deeply impressed with the playback ability of the device, it was able to play every codec it has advertised as well as PGS and SRT subtitles without any issues. It really is fantastic for the cost of the product, able to compete with my Nvidia Shield. You pay in turn with the advertising embedded into the software and the remote, which takes up a substantial amount of the UI.

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Amazon Customer

Very good product

Reviewed in Australia on 1 May 2021

Verified Purchase

I love my Fire Stick it does what I want and it does more than I expected it to. It would be good to have the instructions easier to understand. I bought 2 1 for me and 1 for my daughter. It was not easy to understand and it did not tell me that when I registered the 1 in my home it would register the second one. I had to workit out to deregister the second one and then sync the second to the other Modem.

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S@mj0

Well worth the investment

Reviewed in Australia on 25 April 2021

Verified Purchase

A really easy to user interface and control that instantly upgraded my 6 year old “smart tv”. So much I can ask Alexa to turn on and off the tv now. Apps work crisply and efficiently

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FrostByte

So much better than I expected

Reviewed in Australia on 9 May 2021

Verified Purchase

After struggling with a ChromeCast for years, I didn't have high expectations for the FireStick, however it turned out to be totally amazing. So incredibly easy to set up and just as easy to add the streaming apps I wanted to install. I primarily purchased the FireStick for business travel, so I simply plug it into the motel room's TV HDMI port, connect it to my mobile phone hotspot, and I'm streaming my favorite shows in no time flat.
The simple remote control is a must, and is probably the primary feature that makes the system so easy and functional.
Very impressive, and at the right price point for the features and high build quality.

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Sam Burrows

SIMPLE & EASY TO USE

Reviewed in Australia on 29 May 2021

Verified Purchase

Since Apple relegated YouTube to higher-end TV's, my family couldn't watch their favorite programs on our three-year 'old' sets. The Fire TV stick solved all that. We can now enjoy watching what we like without having to purchase new TVs. However, there was one TV that I couldn't get the Fire stick to work on. It's a 2008 Pioneer Plasma TV with a single HDMI port and it's in our family room. It's the TV our grand-kids love watching but YouTube has gone. Hopefully, future versions of the Fire stick might resolve this problem.
Overall, I think the Fire stick is a great gadget, especially the voice control and I would whole-heartedly recommend it.

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Paul

Easy to setup and use

Reviewed in Australia on 18 May 2021

Verified Purchase

What a great little gadget, turns a dumb TV into a smart TV in minutes. Having only recently purchased a new smart TV, Our 12 yr old Plasma (Panasonic) was put in another room and no coax connection, plugging in the Fire TV stick has breathed new life into it. Wireless connection, great little no fuss remote that did all the hard work for us. within minutes we were watching our favorite Netflix and Prime shows. Oh and it would seem very portable to, given that I set it up on the work TV (Hisense) first. Great picture at 1080p which is just right for this older TV

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Patrick

I can finally watch Prime on my tv

Reviewed in Australia on 23 April 2021

Verified Purchase

I signed up to Amazon prime and thought it was simple as adding the app on my 8 year old smart tv. Nope. Then tried using my HDMI cable to my laptop. Nope again. Chromecast...Nope.
Bought the fire stick, easy set up and can watch Amazon Prime on my big screen. Easy to use as well!

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