Editors Liked
- Dolby Vision, Atmos, HDR10+, and HDR10 for 50 bucks
- Impressive performance at a low price
- Responses are lightning fast
- Remote can now power TV on/off, control volume, and change channels on some cable boxes
Editors Didn't Like
- Amazon needs to chill with the self-promotion
- No Google Play apps
- The menu system is still too bloated
- Requires inconvenient power adapter
- The selection of 4K, HDR and Dolby Vision TV shows and movies is worse than on Apple TV 4K or Roku
The Fire TV Stick 4K doesn’t look like much from the outside, but I’d go so far as to say it’s one of the best HDMI streaming dongles for the money right now. Its unrivaled support for 4K Ultra HDR formats is almost worth the price of admission alone — it’s the only player that has 4K, HDR10, Dolby Vision, HDR10+, and HLG on tap, and it significantly undercuts set-top boxes such as the Apple TV 4K ($180) and the Roku Ultra ($100), neither of which can play back HDR10+ content. In this respect, it even bests Roku’s competitively priced Premiere and Premiere+.
As reviewed by VentureBeat