Opened up. It has a sleeve (upper left), the Fire TV Stick and remote in a little tray, and underneath the quick start guide, the USB cable, batteries and HDMI port extender.
Thanks for that peek inside the box. I have a quick question (to start): How long is the USB cable? Thanks again.Betsy the Quilter said:Opened up. It has a sleeve (upper left), the Fire TV Stick and remote in a little tray, and underneath the quick start guide, the USB cable, batteries and HDMI port extender.
The USB cable, which plugs into the provided power adapter (updated my OP to include that), is just shy of 5 ft (60 inches) long by my measuring, including ends.SeymourKopath said:Thanks for that peek inside the box. I have a quick question (to start): How long is the USB cable? Thanks again.
CeqAbq, The X Files tv show episodes can be downloaded to my Fire HD. That would be an example to check to see if it can be downloaded to the Stick. Thanks for testing this.CegAbq said:Seymour - I'm supposed to get my Stick today and I'm wondering the exact same thing.
I only have the original Fire so cannot d'l any Prime content that I haven't rented or purchases, so I'm really hoping I can d'l to the Stick.
I tried downloading a movie I own, Gladiator. These are the screens on my Fire HDX and on the TV screen using Fire TV:SeymourKopath said:CeqAbq, The X Files tv show episodes can be downloaded to my Fire HD. That would be an example to check to see if it can be downloaded to the Stick. Thanks for testing this.
Bummer. Thank you very much for checking that out. Maybe down the road, a future firmware update will add the downloading capability. One can always hope.Betsy the Quilter said:I tried downloading a movie I own, Gladiator. These are the screens on my Fire HDX and on the TV screen using Fire TV:
The first one clearly shows I can download the movie I own to my HDX
The second one has no download options, though it clearly recognizes I own it (see upper right hand corner).
I also checked some TV shows that I downloaded to my HDX to take to England with me in September, so I know they worked.
Here's the screen for one of the episodes on Fire TV:
There were more watch options shown in the above pic. Selecting that brings up this screen, still no download options:
Since last night, I've been looking through all the information online and all of the screens on the Stick and the only thing I've seen any mention of downloading are games. Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't think so.
True. But my hope was with downloading to the Stick I could free up space on my Fire for other stuff, like Spotify music downloads.Now, if one can download to a Fire, presumably one could then mirror them to the Stick.
Yeah, real bummer. I was hoping to be able to travel with Prime movies on the Stick that I hadn't purchased.SeymourKopath said:Bummer. Thank you very much for checking that out. Maybe down the road, a future firmware update will add the downloading capability. One can always hope.
True. But my hope was with downloading to the Stick I could free up space on my Fire for other stuff, like Spotify music downloads.
You can also access Prime videos via the TiVo -- I've done so. So, like you, I'm not sure what good, really, the stick will be. I've not even taken it out of the box yet, actually. I'm thinking of giving it to the Boy for Christmas -- but he's got an old TV so I'm not sure it would even work. I don't know that he does much movie watching and I know he's got hundreds of thousands of songs on his iThings and via Pandora and Spotify.CegAbq said:Totally think I have too many gadgets .
Got my Fire Stick today and set it up this evening. (And yes, thank goodness for the Android Remote app).
To be honest I haven't done a lot with it - just initial intro and looking around a bit, checked out my AIV watchlist, list of new Prime video content, etc.
Everything worked great and was easy to set up. (Still a bit bummed that I can't d'l some video content.)
BUT ... my home has 2 smart TVs and a TiVo. I get all of the content from the Smart TVs that is available on the Stick. The TiVo has a partnership with Xfinity/Comcast (which is my ISP) and I can get everything that Xfinity offers on the smart TV that is connected to my TiVo box.
Now that one can also access Prime videos on Android tablets (of which I have too many), then I'm having to think about what the Stick gives me over the other "thingys". One thing I can think of is if I'm travelling somewhere & am with other people who also want to watch something, I could connect the Stick to their TV and access the content while away from home. ... However, one of my high-resolution tablets has an HDMI-out port, so that could just be connected up instead of the Stick.
But I've got 2 daughters who might be able make some use of the Stick (Son already has a Chromecast).
We'll just have to see. But, again, I do think I have too many gadgets .
I'm not one of The Elect who has a Fire Stick (sounds like a black powder rifle!). But my understanding is that you can use an app on most recent Kindle Fires to control it. And probably some smart phones, but I don't know specifics.Daniel Cane said:I like it, but there's one big flaw. The remote. It is so small that I have a hard time with it. I thought it was just me, but my wife has trouble too and her hands are small.
Anyone use the other remote with it? Is it bigger? Think it would be worth buying?
If I was understanding correctly, it has to be a TV.Leslie said:I am sorry if this is a really dumb question but...can you plug the Fire Stick into a HDMI port on a computer and have it work? Or does it have to be connected to a TV?
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Yes there's a 'remote Fire Stick' app . . . . .different one for Fires and for android phones. App for iThings coming, apparently.The Hooded Claw said:I'm not one of The Elect who has a Fire Stick (sounds like a black powder rifle!). But my understanding is that you can use an app on most recent Kindle Fires to control it. And probably some smart phones, but I don't know specifics.