Amazon - Fire TV Cube 16GB 2nd Gen Streaming Media Player with Voice Remote - Black

I loved my 1st gen Fire TV Cube but found it was starting to be sluggish so upgraded to the 2nd Gen. Works must faster however when watching 4K action sequences there is a horizontal line that ‘tears’ the screen. I know this issue is with the Cube because when watching the same content thru that native Samsung TV app this does not happen. Not sure if I got a bad Cube or if anyone else has this issue?

I have been using Amazon fire stick for the past couple of years and ran out of storage space so I decided to upgrade to the Amazon cube. I really like this product it’s easy to use and I enjoy the voice commands. Strongly recommend.

This is as fast and as good as any Streaming device out there, I've tested the new shield Pro and other devices, this one is just as fast, the main thing I like is I love the Alexa/Amazon setup, the only thing you can't do with it is, it will play 4K Movies & Shows as will the 4K FS, but only on Netflix, Hulu, Youtube and other places, but it won't play the bigger 4K files or the biggest ones you can using Real Debrid on Cyberflix and other apks and on Emby and Plex servers, those 4K files are too big, for some reason only the Shield Will play those properly with the internet speed of over 100, otherwise your set to do anything you want on this device, get a good memory stick if you need more storage, It's my main device, 1080p is just fine for me and most 4K.

I’m an Apple fanboy. I have an iPhone, an iPad, and a MacBook Pro. But I have to say, the Amazon Fire TV environment just has more apps, more usability, and just works better. Not to mention, the remote is leaps and bounds better than the AppleTV remote. The Fire TV Cube just takes what’s great about the Fire TV Stick 4K and an Echo Dot and mashes them together with an even better processor. I couldn’t be happier with my decision to sell my AppleTVs and get these instead.

I simply love the Amazon fire cube. I have 2 of them. I had an insignia 55 fire TV back in the day and absolutely loved the functionality of having the fire system built right into the TV. Thing is insignia TV's are cheap and picture quality is not the best. Now I have 2 Vizio P series quantum's and the quality is amazing but ask anyone with a Vizio "smart" TV and they will tell you it is far from smart. That's where the cubes come in. I can ask Alexa to turn my TV on, switch inputs, change volume, tell me the weather and so much more. Gives me all the same features I loved about the insignia and Toshiba fire TV's 10/10 would reccomend.

I may not care for Jeff Bezos as a person, but his people put out some truly amazing devices. Plug and play is an understatement. You can almost throw the box at your TV and it works. The remote can be tuned to both th TV and sound bar within minutes and you're off to some excellent channel surfing. I have high speed wifi through Comcast, but I've completely eliminated all their programming services. Saves a ton on the cable bill. I use a combination of YouTube TV and the Fire Box to give me all the stations I need, and binge watching 100's of different programs that I had forgotten about. Yes, Its a little bit more difficult in the beginning to maneuver between the services and programs, but at over $1,000 savings a year over cable programming, it's an acceptable tradeoff. Pretty sure you won't be disappointed in any way.

This gives you Firestick plus Echo capability in one unit. It's small and non-intrusive. It "hears" very well in our living room / kitchen area. It integrates well with your other home theater items, but when it turns your TV on via voice command it wants Fire to take over versus letting the TV run the show. It would be nice if that was programmable. I also wish it would retain names for the various TV HDMI ports it can switch between when it faces a restart or power failure. My wife cannot remember to say "HDMI1" instead of "TiVo". I also wish Alexa had more good jokes to tell me!!! ;-)

Hands down its better than the first version I had for sure. It used to frustrate me to no end and I thought about replacing it many times. this one works way better and I have no real issue with it. I still can get the follow up mode to work quite right but all the voice commands work like a charm, it can actually here my commands, and it serves double duty as one device for both my echo and fire tv needs. the added volume controls are very welcomed as well. Whether it is connected wired or wireless it does what is supposed to do about 90% of the time and I got it on sale so that makes my purchase even better.