New Fire TV Stick for New Zealand

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#300794 5-Oct-2022 08:14

Just announced:

Amazon has announced new Fire TV devices and a local experience for customers in New Zealand, including its new Fire TV Stick 4K Max, and a full HD streaming media device, Fire TV Stick. Both devices come with Alexa, thanks to the included Alexa Voice Remote, with dedicated power and volume buttons to control your compatible TV.

Fire TV Stick 4K Max features a quad-core 1.8GHz processor and 2GB of RAM. It’s the first Fire TV streaming stick to offer Wi-Fi 6 support, which means smoother streaming in 4K when multiple Wi-Fi 6-connected devices are in use.

Fire TV Stick 4K Max is also the first 4K Fire TV device in New Zealand and supports 4K UHD, HDR, and HDR10+ streaming, as well as Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos. It offers Live View Picture-in-Picture, which allows you to check your compatible smart cameras without interrupting your TV viewing, and shows your Ring video doorbell view when someone is at the door.

The HD-only Fire TV Stick comes with a 1.7 GHz quad-core processor and streaming in up to 1080p Full HD at 60fps with HDR compatibility. The dual-band, dual-antenna Wi-Fi supports 5 GHz networks for more stable streaming and fewer dropped connections than standard Wi-Fi. Fire TV Stick also features Dolby Atmos support for immersive sound with compatible content and speakers.

Both Fire TV Stick 4K Max and Fire TV Stick will feature the latest Fire TV experience, which offers a personalised user interface (UI). It also features a simplified Main Menu bar, and the ability to pin your favourite apps for quick access. Features like App Peeks let you explore content from popular apps within the UI itself, while Find allows you to discover content by categories like TV Shows, Movies, and Kids & Family. With User Profiles, Fire TV will deliver a personalised experience for up to six members of a household, providing individual content recommendations, viewing history, watch lists, preferred settings, and more.

Fire TV gives you access to thousands of apps, Alexa skills, and channels, as well as thousands of movies and TV episodes. Enjoy favourites from Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+, TVNZ+, ThreeNow, Neon NZ, Sky Sport Now, Spark Sport, and more. Listen to songs, playlists, live radio stations, and podcasts through services like Spotify and Amazon Music. Subscriptions may be required for certain services.

Fire TV Stick 4K Max will retail for NZ$ 109 and Fire TV Stick will be NZ$ 89. Both devices are available to purchase from today at all leading consumer electronics retailers including Noel Leeming, JB Hi-Fi, PB Tech and Harvey Norman.

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#2977592 5-Oct-2022 08:55

About time too. Pricing isn't too bad as the Max costs AUD$99.

The apps are starting to appear in the Amazon store - I need to confirm if they'll install on an existing stick if I update my devices region/store

For some reason an NZ address isn't letting me use the AU Kindle Marketplace.

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#2977597 5-Oct-2022 09:13

the big thing with this is the support to play AV1.

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#2977614 5-Oct-2022 10:11

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#2977644 5-Oct-2022 11:05

Ok I can get ThreeNow and I can see Spark Sport and the SkyTV Apps but TVNZ+ is still a problem.

Streaming quality on ThreeNow is generally good for OD, but poor for TV3 Live.

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#2977645 5-Oct-2022 11:09

Do these allow any sort of casting?

My parents are after some sort of streaming device, but they'd like casting. I think an AppleTV may to too rich for them (though they both have iPhones). I'm looking at a Chromecast with GoogleTV.

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#2977654 5-Oct-2022 11:35

trig42:

Do these allow any sort of casting?

My parents are after some sort of streaming device, but they'd like casting. I think an AppleTV may to too rich for them (though they both have iPhones). I'm looking at a Chromecast with GoogleTV.

They aren't optimised for casting. Why do they want casting when the device already has the required apps?

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#2977673 5-Oct-2022 11:55

Interesting. If they are now selling the TV sticks locally does that mean they'll also ship the new Gen-3 Fire TV Cube direct to an NZ address?

Its good that the local streaming apps won't need side loading anymore, though.

I'd like to get all the UK and NZ streaming services that I use onto a single device and Fire OS has an All-4 app which rather annoyingly doesn't exist on Android TV.

I used to rock a Gen 2 Fire TV (the flat box, pre-sticks) before changing to an Nvidia Shield.

Everyone used to complain about the front screen "adverts" on Fire OS devices but Android TV pretty much does the same thing these days.

Just need bit streaming for TrueHD/Atmos and DTS-HD together with Dolby Vision Profile-7 support for it to be my ideal device. Both of which are probably unlikely to happen.

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#2977745 5-Oct-2022 13:12

No word on Cube.

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#2977760 5-Oct-2022 13:43

Says "Pre-Order" on PB Tech?

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#2977764 5-Oct-2022 14:01

Love how PB use this image full of unavailable services on their page.

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#2977770 5-Oct-2022 14:14

reven:
the big thing with this is the support to play AV1.

Only Fire TV Stick 4K Max supports, is it not?

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#2977772 5-Oct-2022 14:16

gzt:
reven:

the big thing with this is the support to play AV1.

Only Fire TV Stick 4K Max supports, is it not?

correct the 4k Max is currently the only fire tv device that supports AV1. which they bury this info a lot, this is the number 1 selling point for me for this.

side note: anyone got any discount codes for noelleeming?

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#2977788 5-Oct-2022 15:21

reven:

correct the 4k Max is currently the only fire tv device that supports AV1. which they bury this info a lot, this is the number 1 selling point for me for this.

side note: anyone got any discount codes for noelleeming?

I picked up the Max on a Prime Day deal (£33 vs £55) while in the UK in July. Great little device for the money. Need to find some AV1 test streams to test it with.

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#2977844 5-Oct-2022 19:07

evilengineer:
I'd like to get all the UK and NZ streaming services that I use onto a single device and Fire OS has an All-4 app which rather annoyingly doesn't exist on Android TV.

We imported a 4K one and use it for uk TV apps, problem is it seems to only allow one region and the country apps are region locked, well the UK ones are anyway. So on ours I can only have the UK channels and can't get anything else without resetting the account and starting again. Android tv I believe you can get around this but the issue there is all 4 is missing and that's the one we use by far the most. I don't think there's currently any devices that allow all the apps from both countries from their store.

Not sure about the Android tv devices and of you could set up the vpn and get casting to work for all 4, but I don't want to spend $100 to find out.

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#2977968 5-Oct-2022 20:51

everettpsycho:
evilengineer:

I'd like to get all the UK and NZ streaming services that I use onto a single device and Fire OS has an All-4 app which rather annoyingly doesn't exist on Android TV.

We imported a 4K one and use it for uk TV apps, problem is it seems to only allow one region and the country apps are region locked, well the UK ones are anyway. So on ours I can only have the UK channels and can't get anything else without resetting the account and starting again. Android tv I believe you can get around this but the issue there is all 4 is missing and that's the one we use by far the most. I don't think there's currently any devices that allow all the apps from both countries from their store.

Not sure about the Android tv devices and of you could set up the vpn and get casting to work for all 4, but I don't want to spend $100 to find out.

I have one with UK/UK/NZ apps

You have a distinct Amazon account for the devices and you change the region. Once apps are added they stay in your Amazon account and can still be accessed. No need to reset the device.

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