Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K Max streaming device, Wi-Fi 6, Alexa Voice Remote (includes TV controls)

AMAZON 4K FIRE STICK outperforms satellite, cable and internet TV with 5G compatibility
Excellent AMAZON quality 4K FIRE STICK works perfectly on a 10 year old 40” 1080P legacy SAMSUNG HDTV and 5 year old 22” 1080i VISIO HDTV providing a higher resolution than SATELLITE TV, CABLE TV, or TERRESTRIAL digital HDTV antennas!AMAZON’S 4K FIRE STICK is 5G COMPATIBLE with no video lag on fast motion, complex animations, and outdoor live news coverage! AMAZON PRIME programming is so easy to use with colorful menus and groups of programming categories like sports, news, music videos, PRIME AMAZON MGM studios, and classic movies.

Great item
Works great. Happy with it. Quick shipping

Worth upgrading?
I thought the original Firestick TV 4K was a pretty good budget media player and so when I found out they were releasing a new model I couldn’t help but see if things really improved and if the benefits of the added wi-fi 6 would also play a big factor in its improvement.I conducted all my testing on the 5ghz signal about 20 feet away from my wifi 6 supported router. First, I tested basic streaming apps like netflix, hulu, and youtube. Not once did I notice a drop in quality and the connection never failed so I saw this as a good sign.I also tested some live tv on my hd home run ota device via Kodi’s plug-in and while it wasn’t a very long test things seemed to be running fine. I also tried out the new live tv feature which lets you sync live tv apps like sling tv into the main menu so you don’t have to open the app to start surfing for channels. It’s a really neat feature. It doesn’t support the hd home run app but hopefully it will at some point.Like my last test with the previous fire stick, I had to test out my personal media and the results were certainly interesting. I started with a DVD iso using the mpeg-2 codec and found that it loaded almost instantly if not in just seconds. The previous firestick had very long loading times so this was definitely a surprise. Unfortunately, blu-ray rips with the vc-1 codec still stutter with playback so you may want to consider going with the firecube tv 2nd generation but there is a workaround I’ll talk about later in the review.The big test was with Ultra Hd rips that use the H265 codec and it’s working..but not to my surprise. Kodi unfortunately was not handling playback very well even after I updated to a newer version that released the same day I started testing. I had to use MrMC($2.99 on the app store) for playback and had no hiccups and that is surprising given this app is a fork of Kodi.I also tested on Plex and found the vc-1 transcode to h264 was working as well as the h265 which used direct play. Bear in mind that when you transcode with Plex the PC you run the server software on has to have a good CPU(at least 3ghz or above in my opinion) and additional users on Plex can contribute to playback issues so also keep this in mind.I also tried some games on the new fire stick as well. Amazon now supports RetroArch on the market place and so I took some time to see how well games were running on the emulation cores. I was only able to get one NES core to run which is messen and the firestick struggled to reach the proper frame rate on the games I tested.SNES was better. I used the latest snes9x core and found that games were running at the original frame rate and I could even use the run-ahead feature to lower the input latency. Next, I tested PSX games on the PSXRearmed core and things seemed to run well. I was able to do some enhancements like upscaling to what I believe was 480p and even did overclocking but found that it couldn’t push certain games to run at a consistent 60fps. It was really too much to expect from the CPU and I’m surprised it didn’t tank the performance when I tried.Finally I tested a Dreamcast game using the Flycast emulator and from the initial test I knew 3d accelerated games that ran at 60fps were just not going to make it lol…so I gave up.So is the Firestick TV 4k Max worth the upgrade? To be honest, I’m not quite convinced it is. I tried using the original Firestick TV 4k before the max arrived and was shocked to find out that it ran the H265 codec just like the new stick! I swear it was not working before! It had been a while since I ran any personal media on the older model and so I guess improvements were made?I do think the wifi 6 feature can make a small argument for the upgrade especially if you have a house full of users streaming content but it’s hard to give a definitive yes to the upgrade.