Just by using Amazon's own Prime you have access to just about any movie you can think of, whether it be streamed on Amazon's £79 per year subscription or rented or bought from the shop part of Amazon Prime Video. Via the innumerable apps and channels you can watch everything from child-friendly UFC cage fighting on pay-per-view, to the extreme violence of Peppa Pig. The amount of stuff to watch on this thing is enormous. It also duplicates the Fire TV's controls, should the remote get lost, or its twin AAA batteries run dry. If you download the Amazon TV app for Android and iOS, setup is extremely simple, because you can use your phone keyboard to type in the IDs and passwords for your various streaming accounts (Amazon Prime, Netflix, Spotify, Tidal and the like).Įntering text via the remote and on-screen keyboard isn't nightmarish or anything, but the app is definitely the way to go.
If you're sat watching telly with the remote to hand, there's no reason to not use it (other than showing off your arch Amazon-powered smart home setup, of course). However, I found it easier and more reliable to use the button. If you have Echo devices already you can bypass the mic button and just call out commands. Amazon's voice assistant works in the same way as on the Echo Show or Spot, with visual accompaniment to its usual selection of news, weather and Skills. The button with the microphone summons Alexa.
The tactile, no-frills remote controls all the Fire TV action and also the volume and standby controls of your TV (it works with practically all relatively recent tellies). The stick plugs into a vacant HDMI port either directly or – if that is too fiddly – via a short extension cable. There's not a great deal to be said here, clearly.
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