Before the Fire Stick we were paying roughly $220 a month with cable. With just the stick and Amazon Prime it was nice but not nice enough to drop cable. After a lot of research and an easy install, I took the install at mykodi.net to convert my fire stick into the media masterpiece. It installs Kodi, with a lot of great addons that allow you to get any movie you want, even stuff in theaters. Every TV Show on demand, Live TV, and a lot more with no subscriptions. It's been great. I dropped cable to just internet month ago and haven't looked back since. It's saving me about $160 a month.

This is one of the best streaming device. It is $39 and it streams Netflix/prime/plex/games and a lot more. Thus far it's been a smooth operating device

I initially thought I had bought a lemon because of a persistant error I kept getting when trying to download Apps. I went to the built in Help on the device and looked for a contact number. There was a button you could click for them to call you so I gave that a try. A call center operator called me within 30 seconds and asked a few questions, then forwarded it up to a tech support person. He did something on his end to fix the issue and I have had no problems at all since. The Fire TV Stick works better than my ChromeCast and Roku 2, and I'm still exploring the great features!!!

Amazon Fire TV Stick is a Must for Non-Smart TVs. It brings new level of entertainment channels/apps and more. I tried Chromecast But I prefer Fire TV stick for 3 reasons. This review merely comparison between Fire TV Stick and Chromecast. 1. Kodi Support : Kodi is an external app that can be installed on Fire TV stick. It's truly Great app and everyone must try. Unfortunately Chromecast don't support Kodi/custom app installation. It's really a Deal Breaker. I have Samsung Smart TV, still I bought this for Kodi Support. Now I watch Indian (Tamil) Movies / Live TVs / TV Shows / Radio Stations at no cost. 2. Remote Support : Fire TV stick has dedicated remote that's helpful to enter text and navigate thru menus. You don't need mobile or tablet to operate the stick. Chromecast requires external device. 3. App store : Amazon App store has lot of apps (+ few Games) But Chromecast doesn't have dedicated app store to download/install required apps. When google releases the app for Chromecast, it'll automatically installed on Chromecast. Still No of apps supported by Chromecast is not upto any other app store. (Amazon / Samsung app store). Extra features. 1. Games : Can install and play games with Fire TV stick with Remote even though Amazon App store has limited good games (I recommend Asphalt). You can buy Amazon Game Controller which is similar to XBox One Controller. It's Great to play with the controller rather remote. 2. Alexa aka Voice Search : Fire TV comes with Alexa (like Siri in iPhone.) It understands many commands and executes well. (Even I have accent, still it interprets well) Eg. What's the weather outside? What's the time in India? To command Alexa, you need Mobile or voice remote (Sold separately.) It's Really Awesome Feature. I'd recommend Fire TV stick to Non-Smart TV users. It's a Must. Smart TV users who wish to expand the channels/platform, Kodi via Fire TV stick is the way to go.

For the price its a great deal and for what it can do it is very portable if you have the 100 to upgrade to a "box" i would recommend it but this for 39.99 is a very good media device it stays out of the way and is very user friendly also if you want to run kodi on it you can if you keep it small only reason for 4* is i hate the remote its small and not very easy to type in anything other than that great lil tv streaming device