[Electronics-Talk] Amazon fire sticks

[Jenny Perdue]

Hi,

I have actually been looking to find what the smallest fire TV you can get is. Some of the ones I had never even heard of the brand names. Can anyone give me any explanations or any ideas? Thank you so much.

The smaller the better.

Jenny

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> On Apr 15, 2019, at 7:23 AM, Daniel Perry via Electronics-Talk <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> I've actually got the toshiba fire tv, and I turn the volume down a good bit so that when it says voiceview ready, it won't awaken me. I have a feeling that it's not a bug in the software, but rather the tv updating itself and rebooting.
> 
> -----Original Message----- From: Mike via Electronics-Talk
> Sent: Monday, April 15, 2019 7:37 AM
> To: 'Discussion of accessible home electronics and appliances'
> Cc: Mike
> Subject: Re: [Electronics-Talk] Amazon fire sticks
> 
> 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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