The Fire Stick is a central repository for all your content.
That includes all the streaming services you are most familiar with, including Amazon Prime Video, Hulu, Netflix, and HBO Now, along with network TV apps, sports, and, of course, thousands of less common niche channels you may not be familiar with. The new Fire Stick remote does add the ability to control your TV volume, though it lacks the shortcuts to Netflix or other often-used services.Īmazon says that the Fire TV Stick adds “tens of thousands” of channels to your TV. The remote itself hasn’t physically changed much since the first Fire TV for PC app was introduced, and it lacks the premium feel of the Roku remote or Google’s new remote. Rather than storing files, though, it’s a full-featured streaming player, able to turn any television with an HDMI port into a Smart TV. The Fire TV Stick is shaped like an oversized USB flash drive and plugs directly into your TV’s HDMI video input. Similar in many ways to the Roku Streaming Stick, the FireTV stick is the entry-level product in Amazon’s streaming media player family, typically priced at about $40. The Amazon FireTV Stick is a streaming video player sold by Amazon.
