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Posted 23 August 2016
Amazon Fire TV with 4K Ultra HD £64.95 @ Argos
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Amazon Fire TV with 4K Ultra HD.
Amazon Fire TV, now 4K Ultra HD compatible. Discover thousands of movies and TV episodes, plus sports, news, music and games from Amazon, Netflix, Demand 5, Spotify, Youtube. Com and more. Enjoy movies and TV episodes in HD or stunning 4K Ultra HD with your 4K UHD TV with content from Amazon, Netflix, and more.
Say it and watch it with voice search, simply say the name of the title, actor, director or category into the remote control and start enjoying movies, tv shows, and games from amazon.
No more waiting for your movies and shows to buffer. Asap learns what amazon movies and tv episodes you'll want to watch and buffers them for playback before you hit play. With a quad-core processor and dual-band wi-fi, streaming is fast and fluid.
8GB memory.
Video formats:
BBC iPlayer.Netflix.Amazon Instant.YouTube.Vimeo.Rent from the largest selection of HD movies.
Interfaces and connectivity:
HDMI port.Wi-Fi enabled.
Photo formats:
JPEG.
General information:
Remote control included.
Argos catalogue 448/7708
- Youngy
Amazon Fire TV with 4K Ultra HD.
Amazon Fire TV, now 4K Ultra HD compatible. Discover thousands of movies and TV episodes, plus sports, news, music and games from Amazon, Netflix, Demand 5, Spotify, Youtube. Com and more. Enjoy movies and TV episodes in HD or stunning 4K Ultra HD with your 4K UHD TV with content from Amazon, Netflix, and more.
Say it and watch it with voice search, simply say the name of the title, actor, director or category into the remote control and start enjoying movies, tv shows, and games from amazon.
No more waiting for your movies and shows to buffer. Asap learns what amazon movies and tv episodes you'll want to watch and buffers them for playback before you hit play. With a quad-core processor and dual-band wi-fi, streaming is fast and fluid.
8GB memory.
Video formats:
BBC iPlayer.Netflix.Amazon Instant.YouTube.Vimeo.Rent from the largest selection of HD movies.
Interfaces and connectivity:
HDMI port.Wi-Fi enabled.
Photo formats:
JPEG.
General information:
Remote control included.
Argos catalogue 448/7708
- Youngy
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sorted byStill heat added though as good price.
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So maybe click and collect for tomorrow - could be wrong
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While true, last time I looked decent 4k bluray players will run you around £300 minimum. It's almost like when the PS3 came out and it was cheaper to buy one of those than a dedicated bluray player at the time. If you're after a 4k bluray player its still probably the best value.
I feel the main reason they chose not to support 4k was the lack of blurays and how very few people have the bandwidth to stream 4k when the consoles were released.
The FireTV costs £20 more, but does have USB and MicroSD slot, which allows data transfer.
Kodi and Mobdro both work on FireTV and FireStick.
If you have a smart tv that is 4k then the amazon video app will have a dedicated section for 4k videos
Kodi runs fine on both stick and box, but if your a sports person the processor on the stick doesn't cut it even when changing acceleration settings you get ghosting effects in certain links/streams, box though no issues.
And with having USB or Sd slot put kodi on a stick or card and install it that way
I mainly use my Harmony remote to control it, via Harmony Hub. Works well.
Any model Harmony which works with the Harmony Hub. It's the Hub you need, likely your infra-red one will control it if required.
So tempting and heated though I think £50-£55 is about the most I'd pay considering, apart from the 4K the specs aren't all that generous (8GB storage) but undoubtedly one of the better streaming boxes out...
The new xbox one slim now has a UHD bluray player. The New Ps4 Neo is going to be 4k capable (not really powerful enough to play AAA games at 4k though)
Xbox one Scorpio will be an ultra powerful console capable of full 4k games (but won't be on sale untill about a year)
So 4k is coming.
Yes it can.
Sure I know it's coming, it's been coming for ages now as 4K sets starting coming out as far back as 2013, possibly further, just a bit frustrating that the devices and content seems to be appearing at a snails pace in comparison. I realise the base PS4/Xbox One specs put 4k gaming far out of the question but I'm sure they could play back 4k video, which by comparison is FAR less demanding, even the low spec processors in the average smart TV can do it. I suspect part of the issue is HDMI 1.4 but used to it's max capacity you can get 30fps at 4k, enough for the vast majority of video. Hence it's a tad annoying asking those who bought the base models to buy new consoles even just for basic 4k video playback, I'm sure the base models could do with a little software tweaking...
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All the content providers (Netflix, Amazon, Sky, BT) have so far required HDCP 2.2 support.
Even if you have a 4K HDMI 2.0 TV, if you don't have a HDCP 2.2 complaint socket you'll be stuck at 1080p.
Works very well and 4k looks good, although there is no HDR support.
Add the cost of an HDMI 2.0 cable to the price above.
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yes runs much better too.
He is correct but so far the selection is very limited, same goes for netflix UHD section although at least they have most of their originals in 4k like daredevil,stranger things,house of cards etc
Seen The 5th Element in 4K too, Samsung smartTV streamed it straight from USB drive plugged into it.
I bought the Fire TV 4K as, at the time, the built-in apps didn't include YouTube and I had some lipsync issues. All fixed since though and I don't have much need for the 4k Fire TV, other than Kodi, but that isn't 4k anyway I don't think.
Does Kodi on FireTV 4k support 4k UHD?
Kodi will play them from any available source, including USB.
Yes, easily done, used same method as with firestick
VLC will also play .MKV and H265 flawlessly on the Fire TV
If your TV is HDR then this box works in HDR. Some Amazon and Netflix stuff are already supported Problem for me the content is limited to stuff like Mozart in the Jungle and that Nazi show.
No, really, it doesn't. Why make stuff up that simply isn't true and misleads buyers?
4K at 30FPS hurrah not.