It was very easy to set up, Amazon ships it already associated to your account, so it was already registered, so all I had to do was add it to my network. I like the fact the FireTV stick has the option to place this on my 5Ghz network so there was less buffering and the picture was crisp.
This also has screen mirroring which worked very well; it uses Mirrorcast (which the settings even state), it worked well on my Nexus 5, although Chromecast still has the better way to cast. I also have a Roku3 that recently got screen casting, but that is really buggy that I never use it, I can see me using screen mirroring on the FireTV stick.
I do have the full version of Allcast which I used on my Roku3 and that works vey well, I installed the Allcast Receiver on my FireTV stick, and it works great too.
Also, like Google Play, you can push apps via a web interface by logging into your Amazon account and pushing apps to the FireTV, you choose this from a drop down if you have other devices listed.
Most of the apps I tried were not games, I got a lot of games over the last two years, as I would get the Amazon free apps of the day, I might not install them on my Android device, but I had them in the Amazon cloud , and the ones compatible showed up, so far for the Fire TV stick there aren't a whole lot, the ones I wanted to play needs a controller, I don't have one, I played a chess game on it, and I don't know if it was the app or the stick., but it was buggy. A space shooter game I had in the cloud stated it was available to use with the Amazon remote, but it was not very usable, I need the controller.which brings me up to say this is a door into the Amazon store, I can watch Netflix, etc. but Amazon Prime movies, Music, etc. show up first, Now, I am tempted to buy the controller to play with the games I want to try, which is what Amazon wants you to do.
Like the Chromecast, the screensaver that comes up can show Amazon's own photos or you can have your own photos from the Amazon cloud come up if you have any stored in Amazon's photo storage cloud.
I do not have the voice controller, but I tested the Android app on my Nexus 5 and it worked very well.
So far for the price I paid, it is a very good product, but again it is a door into Amazon's store first and foremost, but that is not a bad thing, it is just what it is.
This also has screen mirroring which worked very well; it uses Mirrorcast (which the settings even state), it worked well on my Nexus 5, although Chromecast still has the better way to cast. I also have a Roku3 that recently got screen casting, but that is really buggy that I never use it, I can see me using screen mirroring on the FireTV stick.
I do have the full version of Allcast which I used on my Roku3 and that works vey well, I installed the Allcast Receiver on my FireTV stick, and it works great too.
Also, like Google Play, you can push apps via a web interface by logging into your Amazon account and pushing apps to the FireTV, you choose this from a drop down if you have other devices listed.
Most of the apps I tried were not games, I got a lot of games over the last two years, as I would get the Amazon free apps of the day, I might not install them on my Android device, but I had them in the Amazon cloud , and the ones compatible showed up, so far for the Fire TV stick there aren't a whole lot, the ones I wanted to play needs a controller, I don't have one, I played a chess game on it, and I don't know if it was the app or the stick., but it was buggy. A space shooter game I had in the cloud stated it was available to use with the Amazon remote, but it was not very usable, I need the controller.which brings me up to say this is a door into the Amazon store, I can watch Netflix, etc. but Amazon Prime movies, Music, etc. show up first, Now, I am tempted to buy the controller to play with the games I want to try, which is what Amazon wants you to do.
Like the Chromecast, the screensaver that comes up can show Amazon's own photos or you can have your own photos from the Amazon cloud come up if you have any stored in Amazon's photo storage cloud.
I do not have the voice controller, but I tested the Android app on my Nexus 5 and it worked very well.
So far for the price I paid, it is a very good product, but again it is a door into Amazon's store first and foremost, but that is not a bad thing, it is just what it is.
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