Amazon has updated its Fire TV Stick 4K Max for 2023. The specs are a little better. The shape of the stick itself is slightly different. It’s pretty much the same Fire TV experience you’ve come to know and love.
But it’s the addition of the Ambient Experience — great screensaver backgrounds and useful widgets — that really make this stick stand out. And right now, the Fire TV Stick 4K Max is the only way you can get the Ambient Experience, without buying a whole new — and much more expensive — Amazon Fire TV Omni television.
And you get it all for well under $100.
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Still a great stick. It'll be really interesting to see if any of the others get the Ambient Experience. (I wouldn't bet on it though.)
I use all these apps and recently MovieArk which has a great selection of movies and live TV channels with the selection improving all the time
Please add Flickr customization to the ambient screensaver options. I want some cloud-based option for making a photo/video slideshow when the TV is idle.
My new Firestick won't update due to WiFi 6 (i think)….i use a projector. Could this be the issue?
Can I use the firestick in multiple houses at the same time or can it only be used in one home
Can you jailbreak all fire sticks
In other words, a nothing burger
The New Tv stick of Amazon that comes with the mediatek chipset helps it to drive various operations and give an enhanced productivity
It has a quad-core mediatek processor and a wireless uptick from Wi-Fi 6 to 6E
The new Fire TV Stick 4K Max is a beast! It's like having a cinema in your pocket with Dolby Atmos audio and Alexa at your service. Loving every moment of it! A good purchasing upgrade along with mediatek performance speed.
Good quality vid, tho consider putting more light to ur face, to balance exposure to match with background. Anyway u can work on lightening ur scenes and it will look beautyfull and professional. 😛
I was told you had to get the Max 4th gen what's that???
Great stuff
You didn't touch upon the storage aspect as intended at the start of the video 😉
This thing is the biggest piece of crap. I just ordered it and checked the box to populate it with everything I signed up for thru amazon. First thing nothing was loaded this thing didn’t even know I was a prime member. After about 3 hours of use the actors mouth and the sound didn’t line up. Next I could no longer watch regular cable tv. amazon helper said it’s not are problem call hbo I never even watch hbo thru max. I went back to the fire stick this 23 addition replaced and things went back to slow moving one I had. Don’t discard your old one if you try this piece of junk.
Thanks for the video, how do i know i am buying the latest version if the name is the same?
I hear amazon are moving away from Android, get these while you can,
Why doesn't work, I am having extreme basic problems
Can you disable HDR on this or is it forced?
Amazon had it for $39.99 today (Nov. 13) so I bought one to replace the old Fire TV 4k stick I had. It was worth it for the ambient feature, faster processor and more storage.
What a terrible attempt at a review, you failed to review the main features of the device and talked about things no one really cares about.
New fire stick remote sucks!
No sideloading makes this pointless.
No type C? No thanks!
Might be a stupid question but I'm failing to find an answer, do I need this mission power adapter thing or is it pointless?
This guy talks in High Rising Tone too much, it’s unbearable.
Was gonna buy this to upgrade my girlfriend’s aging fire stick because she is OBSESSED with samsung’s frame TVs, but seeing that the ambient mode is pretty useless…yawn. I’ll buy us an apple TV instead of
will it turn a tv off ? like after i fall asleep i have the old max and it will just stay on and display a black screen…
Can you get FrndlyTV with fire stick
Does this work with HDR10+ on youtube.Only streamer that seems to work with youtube hdr10+ is the apple tv 4k 3rd gen
Great video, so my older fire stick has been updated, and every program especially those on Fubo, displays an orange bar showing the program is being recorded. and each time we turn on the tv, we need to make sure we are not recording. Is this part of the new update? Thanks
i just want to get rid of my direct tv and enjoy tv again any advice?? i don’t have a Amazon account what if i got one from say walmart or best buy HELP thank you
I have commented elsewhere miracast is unfortunately disabled in this version. Worth noting if you use this feature.
I have a 2023 LG OLED tv and surprised that watching the same Amazon Prime content with the 4k max seems brighter and more vivid than with the LG’s own app.
Do not buy this fire stick or any other Fire TV device. Amazon is changing its operating system and side loading will be a thing of the past in which most people use this device for.
I've always found that firesticks are limited to 100mb/sec. my computer which is located 1/2 meter from my firestick has 250mb/sec wifi but firestick never gets above around 80mb/sec
I’m thinking of getting this for FuboTV, which has looked like crap on the last couple Samsung TVs I’ve had. I had a Toshiba fire tv in 2021 and Fubo looked great on that, so I’m wondering if since this is a fire stick Fubo would look better on it if maybe the stick was doing the video processing instead of the tv.
Can anyone tell me if this would be the case?
I'm trying to cut the cable. Problem is I don't understand anything about what is being said here. Where do I start?
Been thinking about getting a new stick for a while now. Nothing wrong with my old one, but it is almost 5 years old now and it is starting to show its age.
If I don't care about the ambient experience and all that, is this worth upgrading from the 2021 4k max or is there not much of a difference?
For the holidays i just ordered It for $49
I have the fire stick original and it's super slow and the remote barely responds and it's slow
Can you get it without Alexa? I hate Alexa and Echo!