Amazon adds webcam support to the Fire TV Cube
Amazon says it wants to help improve an unconventional holiday season with easier video calls.
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With news that amazon is rolling out webcam support for fire tv cube, is there a chance they will eventually bring it to the Firestick ?
I think I read that zoom will eventually be fully fucntioning on Fire TV 'soon' (video and audio)
If they were to bring webcam support to the Firestick 4k, it would be icing on the cake - the 'ultimate' device.
Maybe with the OS 7 update for Firestick 4k next year ? I am not even sure if the Firestick has enough horsepower to support a webcam
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I need to buy a new TV so if I want to use it with Nvidia Shield is there any important parameters of it like input lag or other?
I saw on the forum that it doesn't worth to buy Shield if you don't have 4K TV. Really is it true?
I don't think that I can afford 4K TV
I wouldn't agree that it's not worth buying without 4K, we've only got a 32 inch 720p samsung tv and I'm very happy with the shield.
if you have any issues with audio sync, there's an option to adjust it in the shield's settings.
There's more to TVs and streaming boxes than the amount of pixels they can display. You absolutely don't need a 4k TV to enjoy Shield's other features.
Do I need to find TV with low input lag like for ps console?
I've bought a 6th gen Kindle 8 and noticed that when I load up Amazon Prime Video, I can video videos through my Prime subscription, but not all videos are showing on there.
Things like Sneaky Pete, the videos are listed, but only the Pilot is showing as available to watch. The rest say Unavailable.
A number of TV series are like this.
Has anyone else noticed? Or have the same problem?
They videos show available and play fine on my android phone and NVidia Shield TV - but some show as unavailable when on my Kindle HD 8 6th gen.
Hello there.
So I have a Nvidia shield tv pro which does a great job upscaling HD content to 4k. I currently use a 4k oled television so it works hand in hand.
This weekend I am upgrading to the 2019 model of Samsung QLED 8k television series.
So my question is. How will shield decide upscaling, will both the TV and shield work against each other, which device will have priority in upscaling. Would turning off upscaling on the shield make it better?
Also would things be clearer or better straight from the TV apps due to shield being made for 4k? Currently buying a 8k HDMI cable to put into the shield from the TV too if that helps.
Hopefully I can get some insight.
The Nvidia shield tv only supports HDMI 2.0b which supports 4k at 60hz and either doesn't support 8k or only supports it at 30hz. I doubt the shield supports 8k output atall. I would say to leave nvidias scaling on and see how it does it will upscale to a maximum of 4k on its own then the tv will do the rest.
Always let the TV do the upscaling. The processor and algorithms will be better than the Shield's as the manufacturer knows what to do with the pixels based on its design. All 8K TVs know how to upscale from 4K because there isn't any 8K content.
Hi, after owning a 2nd gen firetv box (not cube) for years, I assumed that it did 4k...
Now the 4k TV has finally arrived - LG C1, I cannot get the ftv to output 4k !
It's set to 4k in settings, but the TV always reports 1080p.
I have several side loaded apps that play 4k, but....
I have been told that the 2nd gen box will only play 4k from Amazon content... Could that be true ?
Any advice guys ?
Thanks
Ps I've a 4k stick on the way, just in case lol
Rooster#1 said:
Hi, after owning a 2nd gen firetv box (not cube) for years, I assumed that it did 4k...
Now the 4k TV has finally arrived - LG C1, I cannot get the ftv to output 4k !
It's set to 4k in settings, but the TV always reports 1080p.
I have several side loaded apps that play 4k, but....
I have been told that the 2nd gen box will only play 4k from Amazon content... Could that be true ?
Any advice guys ?
Thanks
Ps I've a 4k stick on the way, just in case lol
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it does. Might be a network speed problem. Usually mine takes about 2-3 minutes to start playing in 4k. I never had any issues with 4k on my firetv2.
Mmm, that's odd then !
My 4k stick has arrived, and it working as expected... Same WiFi, same location... So I've given up on the box, it can go 8n the bedroom
Thanks for the reply Michajin
I currently have the Amazon Fire TV Cube 2nd Gen, but I'm wondering if the Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K Max is a better option. I have an Xfinity wifi 6 modem with a 1 GB internet plan. The cube has a faster CPU, but the 4K Max supports wifi 6. Which device is the better option?
The Cube and 4k max are both streaming devices, and streaming services max out at ~30Mbps. Even if you are streaming Blu-ray rips you are only dealing with ~65Mbps.
What are you hoping to gain from WiFi6? You should be able pass over 400Mbps with WiFi5 already.
The 4k Max also does AV1 decoding but at the moment that doesn't make much difference since any service providing AV1 also provides alternative codecs of comparable quality.
The 4k Max has an eARC hub option if you want to stream audio from an eARC capable TV to Echo speakers.
The 4k Max has a few more features, but these features will have no impact for most users.