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Beware of the screen size that doesn't fit.
The 1st generation firestick had an option to calibrate/resize the picture so that the edges don't get cut off. The 2nd generation firestick adds "Alexa" as a new feature, but they also took away the option to calibrate/resize the picture. Instead that screen says to adjust your TV so that the picture fits. My TV has absolutely no display setting that is compatible with the firestick! So I am stuck with the edges of the screen being cut off. Reading a bunch of forums about this where other people complain about the same issue, evidently Amazon was aware of this issue at least 9 months ago and they told customers that they were going to release a fix for this problem in an upcoming release. Well 9 months later, there still is no fix for this problem, despite the fact that they did release new firmware, which basically re-arranged the menus on the firesick from the left to the top.. This picture size issue won't affect everybody because every TV renders the screen differently, and I'd like to believe that most TVs may be able to resize the screen after you go through the menus on the TV so that the video signal from the firestick fits the screen. But I have a TV made by Sharp that just won't fit the screen properly from the firestick. The people who make the Firestick certainly had to have known that this would be an issue, because they had the feature to calibrate/resize the picture in the 1st generation firestick. Why is that useful and nescessary feature missing on this 2nd generation firestick? So I give it ONE STAR... until Amazon pushes out new firmware that fixes this problem.
June 2017 · Electronics · verified purchase
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Fire TV Stick with Alexa Voice Remote, streaming media player - Previous Generation
4.5★ · 315,583 ratings, as of 2023
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