Okay so here it is this generation three of the fire stick they've made some great improvements on this that's what made me buy it um I'll show you the old fire stick after I get this one to unbox to show you the differences but let's go ahead and rip it open and see what it looks like okay once you get everything out of the box this is what's included in here you get a hello booklet this is uh the HDMI adapter that helps you to plug it in and maybe get it away from your tv is a little bit instead of just being sticking straight out of your tv just gives you some extra room so it's kind of like an extender this here is the wall plug-in so that you can power your device here is the new remote control uh this is a cable that goes connects into your fire stick and then they give you two amazon batteries here and then this is the fire stick itself let's go ahead and uh unpackage the remote and put the batteries in there okay batteries in and then just slide the back on here just like so okay so right off the bat you can see that there are some new buttons that have been added here on the new fire remote uh fire stick remote they have the amazon prime video button which um is native to their platform it's got a Disney plus button there a Hulu and a Netflix button it's got the fire tv branding on the bottom here and then on the old remote it's got the amazon branding also it's got a plus and minus symbol there which will control the remote.
or the volume on your tv versus the old remote did not do that you had to buy like an extra device that hooked up on the side there to do that this here was the extender that I had to have on the old remote like so to be able to you know to control and turn off the tv on and off and uh turn it up and down so now you don't need that it's all in one remote just like so so I think that it's definitely worth the upgrade if you want to just buy the remote or if you want to go ahead and upgrade to the newest fire stick here and purchase the latest and greatest.
you're probably going to get you to know all the updates and it's going to be a better processor so um and for the price I mean it's worth the upgrade um, you could turn the tv on and off here with the power button.
What you could not do before with the old remote did have the microphone icon here this one here has the universal symbol there to activate your um device and then but they have the home buttons the back buttons are like your settings button and then it's got the rewind fast forward play and then here on the side there's a mute button and then a tv button there I'm not quite sure what that tv button is yet but I will be diving into that so there's a difference is between the two remotes all right so let's go ahead and finish setting this up what I'll do is I'll plug in my fire stick to my extender here plug that into an HDMI port plug this cable into this and then plug it into the wall all right so the next step it says introducing the all-new fire tv experience.
Uh you'll have a new main menu you'll get to personalize your fire tv with profiles and then you get to decide what to watch with what they call find is that new destination to search and discover movies tv shows apps free content and more okay so here is where you could add your new profile if you want to add one for your kids I'm just going to go ahead and bypass this for now and just click on my profile is okay so here it is this is what the new layout looks like at the top, you'll see that it does have like a scrolling bar that shows some featured content right here is right here in the middle you'll have found where you can search tv shows fan kit kids and family content sports.
Action movies horror movies uh you'll click over here to where it says live and this is where you can find any kind of like live tv whether you want to watch your crime your WWE it's got the walking dead and the kitchen so that's kind of a nice little feature for those you who don't have maybe a local cable or any type of live content and then you'll find some of your most popular apps right here on the top uh your Netflix your prime video Youtube Amazon music.
okay over here is where you'll find your gear icon is where you'll be able to access all the controls to be able to customize your fire stick go back to the home menu here all right so on the home menu, you'll just scroll down and then it's got some featured items that that puts you know like I recommend it here and you'll just scroll down or scroll over to see some of the content that they do have you'll scroll down and one thing that fire tv does that I don't know if I'm a big fan of it is they put the sponsor stuff on here uh to try and promote make some extra money but this one here is for paramount plus and it's sponsoring their adhere on the fire stick but you scroll down more and it's got like an on now, this is where that live tv feature is in place it's got your prime amazon originals some of the particular content that amazon has that's exclusive to their platform is right here and similar to Netflix whenever you do get on there it'll have where it starts automatically playing like their commercial at the top uh prime movies that things that you'll like here they have some suggested movies now whenever here's a little tip for you whenever you are watching some of this content like i say I'll Click on that one there that says flight right there at the bottom left you'll see where it says watch now with prime you want to make sure that that says with prime so that way you can watch it for free um otherwise sometimes you have to pay for these movies um that if they're not with amazon prime but usually it'll give you a warning it'll have a price or something of how much it is before it'll charge you all right so recently watched right here is where you could pick up on some of the movies that you were already watching it's got our kids and family tv section here yeah let me turn that down so I can talk all right it's got the imd tv if you're into that popular tv here free recently added movies with IMDb right here it's got a new section selection where you can watch live news networks it's got action comedy with some of the more popular ones that have just come out recently on streaming uh it's got popular movies here from prime like the secret unbreakable bombshell serenity so it's got some pretty good movies here to watch there's.
Gemini man and then, of course, Skyfall or James bond you'll go down here recommended by your app so based on the preferences that it thinks that you may like on ones that you've already downloaded before it's got some recommended apps here sponsored apps I like showtime Hulu these are all ones that you do have to pay for these prime tv drama here in case you're into that particular genre tv rated movies or top I mean top-rated movies tv shows that thing that will like it'll suggest it here and then it's got top-rated tv here so there are a lot of different categories that are offering so there's plenty of content to watch on the amazon fire stick all right so go to go back up to the top you just click uh the home button on your remote control and it takes you right to the top here so this uh new the format here it'll take some getting used to if you're used to using.
The old fire tv stick but I think that this is a little bit cleaner looking and I think it I like that they just have your main apps right here at the very top where you can just scroll over to them this button right here will be where you select all the tv apps that you have available we'll go ahead and click on that and see which it shows and then you'll see here it's got all cattle categorized down here this pop-up here is apps that's still downloading for me but right here are all the apps that I have installed on the stick all right now say you do want to customize this top bar here to put uh you know like prime video first what you would do is you would select your prime video button and on your remote control there's a button right you can't really see it because of the the light but there are three lines in a the row that's the like settings button, you'll click on that on the top or on the bottom right corner, you'll see where it says move or move to the front or you can hide for all apps so if you wanted to move it you'll take you'll click on move and then you'll just put it right there in front of Netflix or wherever you want to put it and then you just click on the circle again and then it stays just like so all right back to the home the menu here but yeah this gives you a pretty good look at what the new fire stick has to offer what it looks like I think they did a pretty good job with updating it and making it look a little bit better than what it did before so hopefully.
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