Question 1

What is better, the 4K or the 3rd gen?

Accepted Answer

The 3rd gen user interface is noticeably slower than the 4K. The 3rd gen also has the same design flaw as the 4K for multi-speaker setups, in that it sends stereo content to the receiver in a 5.1 "wrapper" that the receiver can't process using, e.g., Dolby ProLogic; the only workaround is to set "Surround Sound" to "Dolby Digital" which has the side effect of downgrading Dolby Digital Plus content to the lower-fidelity legacy format. This flaw has been known since at least the end of 2018 yet Amazon purposefully built it into its latest device.

Question 2

Is this 3rd gen 4K or just HD

Accepted Answer

Unless you have a 4K television and the content you're watching was shot in 4K, then you're only going to be viewing HD anyway so you may as well get the 3rd gen stick with the updated security, etc. Everyone is always all over the 4K simply because it says 4K but unless you have a 4K display to watch the 4K video, you're not getting 4K anyway. And most 4K televisions are not true 4K anyway.

Question 3

What comes with it?

Accepted Answer

This fire stick lower performance than my old first generation firestick. I would not buy this again. with the new fire stick my stereo sounded less powerful. it seemed like the out put or frequency coming from the stick was lower than my old fire stick (less power or what ever) I put back on the old stick and my stereo sounded great again. To me the new one is just lower end or just junk.

Question 4

Will this support full 4k and HDR content or is that only on the 2 gen?

Accepted Answer

This is a 1080p streaming stick which works just fine with 4k TV. In fact if you use it with a 4k smart TV the TV itself up scales any 1080 p content to 4k resolution. So instead of using the factory 4k streaming apps provided by your smart TV manufacturer you use the 1080p fire stick and you will be surprised to find your data usage is far less than using the 4k streaming apps and you will still view content in 4k because of the 1080 up scaling processor. The reason for up scaling 1080p images to 4k is because network digital broadcasts in 1808p still at this point. So you can experience 4k without streaming in 4k. Try it and see for yourself. The savings on data usage is the best kept secret of all.

ASIN	B08C1W5N87
Item model number	S3L46N
Manufacturer	Amazon
Product Dimensions	8.59 x 3 x 1.24 cm; 31.75 g

Fire TV Stick with Alexa Voice Remote (includes TV controls), HD streaming device

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