Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K Max streaming device, with AI-powered Fire TV Search, supports Wi-Fi 6E, free & live TV without cable or satellite

Good Stuff! Value for Money.
So easy to use. No issues migrating accounts to Fire TV Stick. It was so easy. Literally took me all of 8 mns to set up my Prime Video, YouTube, Disney, Netflix accounts and as I type, I am watching the freebie channel Pluto on my Fire TV stick. “Space 1999” straight from 1977. How’s that for some fun nostalgia. Hard to believe we ever wore such embarrassing clothes! Anyway, back to the Fire TV Stick. It comes with a remote. The stick itself has an HDMI plug in for your monitor or tv and the other end is usb c – power block. They give you an extender for the HDMI in case you need some extra length to plug and that really helped me. But you will need an electric outlet close enough to your monitor or tv in order to be able to plug in the power block into your electric outlet and also the HDMI input into your monitor or tv source. They also provide 2 batteries for the remote. Right out of the box you’ll be up and going. I love the ambient feature. I hope they add some cityscapes and more ambient landscapes. One can even add their own pictures if they like. It’s so relaxing to be listening to Audible and have the ambient landscape on. I also love the Alexa support. I don’t use “Alexa” as my wake word. I use “Echo,” but my Fire TV Stick remote had no problem responding to my “Echo” wake word – no training necessary. Bada Boom, bada bing. You know that moment of dread you have when you have to set up any machine…well, you needn’t put yourself through the anxiety. Fire TV Stick does the ugly work for you. The streaming quality is awesome. And considering I’ve watched at least four different movies since I got it yesterday and haven’t paid a dime for those movies…I’m gonna say the Fire TV Stick has been a great value and it is just now coming up on 24 hours that I received it. 4 movies in and delivery was same day prompt! I waited so long to get one. Why I waited, I’ll never know. I love my Fire TV Stick. Oh, and did I mention you can take your stick with you? Might not work in all countries. But as a dogsitter I’ll just bring my stick to my client’s house and don’t have to worry about what I want to watch regardless of my client’s programming. They don’t have to pay for any movies I might watch. Awesome.

Great device, but may not be for Plex users
For various reasons, I decided it was time to at least try a different streaming device, and I figured a FireTV Stick would be the obvious solution.I wanted a responsive device, and to try to ensure this, I figured I might as well go for the top model of the FireTV Stick, so I ordered the 4K Max. This device does not at all disappoint in that regard! It is very snappy while navigating through the UI and the various streaming apps I utilize, so I’m very pleased with that.It comes with a short HDMI extender, which is a great touch because it makes using a “stick” form device such as this not interfere with being in the way of your other HDMI ports.Make sure you use the power adapter it came with (or a USB adapter capable of outputting 2 Amps) because you will run in to problems quickly if it doesn’t detect enough amperage. I rather wish it came with a longer cable, as it is not uncommon these days for a TV to be wall mounted, but that’s just my own opinion.Setup is very easily done and has nice guidance every step of the way. Even getting the remote to work with my TV was super easy and included in the first time setup guidance. The remote ended up only being able to control my TV’s power and volume, which is not a big deal, and I’m sure most individuals who buy this intend to use it as the main source of media to play on their TV.Streaming from various services is an absolute blast and I’ve had no issues there.I rather wish there were more big name options for aftermarket remotes, it seems like there are for every other major streaming device, but on the other hand I’ve never personally heard of anyone’s FireTV remote having issues.If you have a non-smart TV or an aging smart TV that is getting laggy, the FireTV Stick will serve you well for years to come, go for it!The FireTV Stick 4K Max also has an option for a service that allows you to play games from your PC on your TV, I am intrigued to try the trial of that at some point just to see how it is.***For Plex users:**** This is in no way, as far as I can tell, any fault of the device itself. Certain movies will get stuck and after a while make an error pop up, and certain shows will result in the audio playing but the screen being stuck black when the auto play starts the next episode. I have tried everything, and I mean everything. Everything else has never given me this issue. I have gone so far as factory resetting the FireTV Stick, rebuilding my media libraries, cold starting every device on my network, and gone through every single setting in the Plex app. This has resulted in my second issue with the autoplay being seemingly resolved, but again I do not think it is the device itself, or anything on my network, because I have installed what is essentially a media player that can connect to network shares and everything plays with no issue that way. So, yes, it seems to be an issue with the Plex app itself. Unfortunately, it seems forums are full of Plex users experiencing such things on FireTV devices. Again I cannot fault the device or Amazon for this in any way. Unfortunately though it leaves me trying to decide if I should just continue using the player application on my FireTV Stick, which is connected to the only TV I use, and that is mostly what I use when I’m watching anything. If I do that, I have very little reason to run Plex, but I like its layout and I’ve put a lot of time and effort over the years in to getting it just the way I like it. I can hope that an upcoming update fixes things, I could buy a Plex Pass and see if this improves things, I could switch to Emby and pay their monthly charge, or I could purchase a different streaming device…..it’s a tough spot….