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jswinden · 12-19-2014, 04:38 PM

I just got my Fire TV Stick today. I cannot recommend this POS to anyone, not even the North Koreans!

Once set up it takes over my TV and will not allow me to change volume, any TV settings, and worst of all it will not allow my to switch away from the HDMI input on which the Fire TV Stick is plugged in. So plug it in and set your TV to the Fire TV Stick HDMI input port and you are stuck. Fire TV works, but without the ability to change the volume, mute, or make any other TV setting changes. To go to another input port, that is, change back to cable or BluRay player, I have to get up and pull that GD POS stick out of the input port to regain control of my Sony Bravia TV. And not only that but the video quality totally sucks compared to my U-Verse TV reception. The Fire TV Stick provides a very dark and low resolution image, even though it is set to 1080p at 60Hz. What a POS. Even crappy Time Warner Cable reception blows this thing out of the water. My Apple TV is way better. A coloring book is way better! It is going back as soon as I have time to rebox it and take it to UPS.

12-19-2014, 04:38 PM	#45
jswinden Nameless Being	I just got my Fire TV Stick today. I cannot recommend this POS to anyone, not even the North Koreans! Once set up it takes over my TV and will not allow me to change volume, any TV settings, and worst of all it will not allow my to switch away from the HDMI input on which the Fire TV Stick is plugged in. So plug it in and set your TV to the Fire TV Stick HDMI input port and you are stuck. Fire TV works, but without the ability to change the volume, mute, or make any other TV setting changes. To go to another input port, that is, change back to cable or BluRay player, I have to get up and pull that GD POS stick out of the input port to regain control of my Sony Bravia TV. And not only that but the video quality totally sucks compared to my U-Verse TV reception. The Fire TV Stick provides a very dark and low resolution image, even though it is set to 1080p at 60Hz. What a POS. Even crappy Time Warner Cable reception blows this thing out of the water. My Apple TV is way better. A coloring book is way better! It is going back as soon as I have time to rebox it and take it to UPS.