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Originally Posted by Jessica Lares
Neither. I was looking around the Appstore seeing what I'd put on it. The Amazon and Netflix stuff would have been great. I felt like I was going to take a gamble with everything else looking at screenshots and reviews.
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There are 490 apps for this stick at launch. Besides Netflix and Prime, there are 81 entertainment apps including YouTube, PBS, Crackle, Hulu Plus, YuppTV, and the Smithsonian app. Plex, should you be interested in running a server, brings a long list of apps on its own. If sports are your game, there are NBA Game Time and MLB.com. For news, there are CBS News, Sky News, Bloomberg, and HuffPost Live
Games differentiate the Amazon streamers from the rest. The stick supports 238 of them. The Sonic games are all terrific. Tetris, You Don't Know Jack, and Terraria are popular.
Sort the list by highest rating and you will find less familiar hits like Hill Climb Racing, PBA Bowling Challenge, and Carmageddon.
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Originally Posted by Jessica Lares
I got cold feet.  I want to get the TV box/stick investment right the first time. |
Forget about this. You are not going to get a perfect streamer for less than $100 for a very long time -- never mind $19.
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Originally Posted by Jessica Lares
BTW, they now have the store set up to show you all the apps that will be capable with it. 215 of the Fire TV apps aren't going to work with the stick at this rate. Yikes. Not that I would want all those apps, but the majority of them are things people might have liked the $20 price point for. Can already see the reviews!  |
Most people get hung up on app count, but, after sampling a lot of apps, people end up using ten to twenty apps.
While I strongly prefer the FTV box to the stick, it is hard not to find $19 of value in a stick that streams Plex. This one does that, Netflix, Prime, YouTube, Hulu Plus, MLB.com, NBA Game Time, CBS News, Sonic, and Tetris.