# Amazon Fire TV

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazon-fire-tv/685180>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [April 2, 2014, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazon-fire-tv/685180 "2014-04-02T16:56:38Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2014, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazon-fire-tv/685180/21 "2014-04-04T18:01:58Z")

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Any moreso than Netflix?

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**Author:** ![Raza](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raza/32/213_2.png) [@Raza](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raza)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2014, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazon-fire-tv/685180/22 "2014-04-05T16:42:42Z")

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**I’m returning mine.**

The reasons are entirely my own preferences and quirks; I’d still recommend it to someone for whom the device makes sense.

**The good** : easy to setup, the UI is indeed snappy, and generally the UI is intuitive.

**The bad** : the remote’s navigation wheel is noisy; very much so. Continually clicking right to navigate a list of shows would be audibly aggravating.

**My real reason for returning it** : Amazon’s instant video offerings apparently suck, and the voice search (which is convenient and returns accurate results) only seems to include Amazon offerings. I chose at least 20 different TV shows, from decades-old NYPD Blue to more recent things like GCB, and every - single - one of them required paying as much as $4 an episode. Absolutely everything that I wanted to watch (and I focused on TV series, because I seldom have the patience to sit through a movie any more) was pay-per-view.

I can watch Netflix or Hulu on several other devices already hooked to, or part of, my TV; I don’t need to spend $100 on another. Granted, it IS a nice device all-around, and for someone who does not already have a Roku or other streaming device, I would recommend the Fire TV, but only if the potential user was OK with the Amazon-centricity.

But I was expecting a lot more useful content from Amazon’s video services. I’ve been a Prime member for over 2 years and have never used their Prime video services before; apparently, I haven’t missed anything.

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