The Amazon Fire TV platform has been nearly flawless when it comes to having every app available, only hiccuping notably for the first year of Peacock. Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K Max review: Content and apps I'd prefer that, as the IMDB channels didn't seem to offer me much, sort of the same freebies you find in Pluto TV. That said, Roku remotes have a Sling TV button, which cuts through the need to us Amazon's interface. Digging around in the Settings, I found that I could connect my Sling TV account's channels to the Live TV grid of channels (Settings > Live TV > Sync Sources > select your source), and then I could simply hide the IMDB channels (Settings > Live TV > Manage Channels), and turn the Live TV button into a Sling button. Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K Max review: RemoteĬord-cutters shouldn't overlook the Live TV button, even though it just defaults to the free linear programming on the IMDB app. One oddity, which we found in our Fire TV Stick 4K review, is that Alexa thinks '4K movies' means 'four k movies,' something we wish the digital assistant could translate properly, especially since 4K is in this device's name. When I tried Alexa-based searching again, this time with the word 'Halloween' (to see how many of the Michael Myers movies are streaming online), it gave me the regular results window, as it should have. It kept throwing me to that app, foregoing the search results screen I'd see when I typed that 'Fast & Furious' query in.

I tried this again to make sure I'd not made a mistake. I'd only recommend the former, as the latter would automatically take me to the search result it thought was most correct: Netflix's Fast & Furious Spy Racers, an animated series about 'teen driver Tony Toretto' and his friends. At the search prompt window, the text on screen says you can type in your query or search by holding down the Alexa button on your remote. But when I started to hunt for Fast & Furious movies, I was a little annoyed.

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