[Electronics-Talk] Amazon fire sticks

[Star Gazer]

Thank you Dan. 

Sent from my iPhone

> On Apr 16, 2019, at 9:15 AM, Daniel Perry via Electronics-Talk <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> it actually only seems to happen on amazon prime, and I did some research since the last time you and I spoke, and it turns out that you can indeed skip the adds by simply pressing the skip button. I'll verify this to be sure but I'm almost positive that you can skip them. I know that was a concern of yours because of your children which makes lots of sense.
> 
> -----Original Message----- From: Star Gazer via Electronics-Talk
> Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2019 8:51 AM
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> Subject: Re: [Electronics-Talk] Amazon fire sticks
> 
> How often do the adds appear on the Toshiba Fire tv?
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
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>> On Apr 15, 2019, at 7:37 AM, Mike via Electronics-Talk <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>> 
>> I bought the 24 inch Insignia fire tv with Alexa built in. The problem was
>> about 2 times a week in the middle of the night it would say voice view
>> ready! This was with the tv shut off! This is a soft wear problem. No one
>> could figure out how to stop this. My tv was in the bedroom & I was not
>> going to be woke up by the tv 2 times a week. The ecko show does the same
>> thing, but you can tell it to go home & that stopes the behavior for the
>> most part but not 100%. I sent it back & got the fire stick with Alexa
>> remote & really like it.
>> Mike
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Electronics-Talk <electronics-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of
>> Star Gazer via Electronics-Talk
>> Sent: Sunday, April 14, 2019 5:43 PM
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>> Cc: Star Gazer <pickrellrebecca at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [Electronics-Talk] Amazon fire sticks
>> 
>> Thank you. We are trying to decide, and you may know, if the firestick will
>> work with our tv, we got it in 2012. We are trying to decide if we want a
>> firestick or spring for the tv with the firestick built in, husband isn't
>> sure he wants involuntary adds.
>> Are you sure there isn't a youtube app for the firestick? Sounds like an odd
>> oversight.
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Electronics-Talk <electronics-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of
>> Melissa Kane via Electronics-Talk
>> Sent: Sunday, April 14, 2019 4:58 PM
>> To: Star Gazer via Electronics-Talk <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
>> Cc: Melissa Kane <mdsmith32811 at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [Electronics-Talk] Amazon fire sticks
>> 
>> The Fire Stick is very accessible, in my experience. We have used our with
>> Sling TV, CBS All Access, PBS, Amazon Prime, and probably a couple other
>> apps as well. I just which there was a youtube TV app for the Fire Stick.
>> 
>> 
>> Melissa Kane
>> 
>>> On 4/14/2019 1:30 PM, Star Gazer via Electronics-Talk wrote:
>>> 
>>> Sent from my iPhone how accessible are these? We want to try them.
>>> 
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