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Originally Posted by CRussel
I'm using and enjoying my Fire TV Cube. It's replaced the second generation Fire TV and does well. It was stupider than absolutely necessary at first, but that's improved noticeably over time. Being able to change inputs to the TV with voice is a plus as is being able to go directly to Hulu or a specific program. Navigation with voice is still basically useless, but I have the remote for that.
One thing I wish they'd fix is the ability to resume when the screen saver has activated. That's annoying. "Alexa, resume" should just work.
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Originally Posted by OtinG
I press the Play button on my remote to resume after the screen saver displays. That works on both the Fire TV 2nd Gen. and the Roku. So I wonder if "Alexa, play" would work? You would certainly expect "Alexa, resume" to work, but we are dealing with Bezos Bozos so I'm not surprised it doesn't.
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Well apparently Amazon changed how the Fire TV works in this case. I was watching the Amazon Prime add-on service called BritBox last night via my Fire TV 2nd Gen. I was binge watching the first two series (seasons, years) of "Last of the Summer Wine" and on multiple occasions I paused the play and went to do something else. When I came back the Fire TV had gone into screen saver mode even though it was only a few minutes since I paused play--as in perhaps 3 minutes. It goes into screen saver way to quick IMO. Pressing the Play button did absolutely nothing. That used to resume play. I don't have a Resume button, at least on the universal remote I use. So each time I had to press the Home button then navigate back to the show I was watching. Really clunky if you ask me! Another Bezos Bozos moment for sure!!!! He really needs to find programmers who actually know how to program and who actually use the devices they are programming... The main reason I use my Roku box most of the time is because it is way easier and way more intuitive to navigate within. Roku has a much better user interface that actually works, although it could use a lot of improvements as well.