It turns out you CAN sync this new stick with the old gen 4K remote. It sets up in a snap and works perfectly. Best of both worlds. I may just accidentally "lose" the new remote. In a trash can.
Would love to see another new nvidia shield tv device soon with upgraded specs even after all these years it's still the OG android tv device that's still to beat.
@@2431carl no *Android TV box* can touch it yes. Because other Android TV box makers are stupid only putting in cheap weak chip. Android phones and tablets surpassed Nvidia Shield TV years ago..
I sold my Nvidia Shield TV Pro 2019. It doesn't do emulation better than literally every device in my house. Other devices can emulate even more recent powerful consoles that Nvidia shield TV can't..
Sorry to disagree but the Nvidia shield is hardly a great device especially since it’s not the greatest out today. Nvidia shield has many flaws starting with those ads it still has. Plus it a lack of updates for the Android OS. I traded in my Nvidia shield pro because it’s completely useless. I wouldn’t but this device again
@@mmert138 right I just got one to use in my bedroom for Amazon Luna. Had it not been $35 bucks I wouldn’t have gotten. Back in 2019 I brought like 3-4 on prime day at steep discounts.
I'd like to see you incorporate lossless 4k streaming from a local plex server as additional testing. I've had to upgrade my roku devices to a shield pro to get flawless non-transcoded direct 4k rips to play across my lan. I recently tried my old fire tv and it seemed to fair a little better than the roku devices... but still ultimately gave out. All of these devices handle 4k streaming from services just fine. And even my down Plex server if I compress them with handbrake first. But it takes true gb ethernet or fantastic wifi possibly to handle lossless. Even though the roku devices are on strong 5ghz signals, they won't pull faster than 80 to 90mb/s. And lots of forum posts out there agree with these findings.
@@tatsumaru12345 alright I remember last time I tried to do it you had to install apps run code and still wouldn’t work right. I’ll have to try it again
I remember seeing a tutorial on how to install an Android custom ROM for Raspberry Pi 4 that was a mix of LineageOS and Android TV, and it seemed to me that the adverts won't load on devices without GMS.
I just got 4K FireStick for my projector,works great 👍 i also have an older version which works but it's kinda slow..I want Fire Cube but don't have money 💰...
Thank you. you make great and informative videos but you forgot to leave a link to the OTG Extra Storage in the description. What is the extra storage used for? Do you put video files on it and if so what format and encoding do they have to be for the firestick to read them?
Can you do comparison/performance of Moonlight streaming? As I understand, on older Fire Stick 4K, the HW decode was buggy/limiting factor which added latency and became borderline acceptable experience. With the addition of WiFi 6 and different HW on Fire Stick 4K Max, curious to see if there is any improvements. Thanks.
Just an update, I purchased the 4K max just to test Moonlight. Unfortunately, I saw no improvement over the previous gen 4K. Hardware decoding time was between 30-40ms as I experienced. Networks latency was 1ms .
When you test the emulation for n64 with retroarch could you see if you could figure out why Vulcan won't stick(stay switched on) , and why the parallel core won't work?
Really great for the price, I enjoy playing all my favorites on N64, PS1, PSP, Dreamcast and even undergoing testing emulators for Gamecube and PS2 on this MAX stick its amazing
I really liked playing games on my computer instead of the fire stick. I really liked the video how you download asphalt 8 on the fire stick same as my computer! You're the best!
Frame skip for God of wars causes the cut scenes to crash the game. So if you can't play it without frame skip. You're better off not playing it. People need to stop telling us you can play God of war with frame skip you can't.
Wish I knew the max version was coming out! Just purchased the 4K model 3weeks ago. It’s still great but I’m using it on a 4K projector and any little bit of upgrade to quality helps. Oh well maybe Black Friday or cyber Monday it will go down some in price.
Strange device, but if you're interested, WAIT UNTIL NEXT MONTH! Around black friday, all amazon devices always go on a mega sale. But the 4k max, beyond getting the newest updates, wifi 6, official otg support 'was unofficial before,' and native av1 support, I don't know if I'd reccomend the extra change from the 4k stick IF you already have it. If you're buying now, I'd get the max. There may come a point streamers might require av1 support. Like youtube, you're only getting 8k if you have a av1 player. Looks alittle better too. I will say the 4k stick is behind in updates, even if it has the same hardware as the lite/regular. Like bluetooth volume control isn't a thing yet. But probably is on the max.
The two key improvements here are hardware accelerated AV1, which is soon to be ubiquitous and WiFi 6 for more efficient streaming. Hopefully the next Google Chromecast with Android TV will up the ante with a USB-C 3.0 port and S905X4 SOC.
Considering AV1 is not supported by any Snapdragon phones, iphones below 12 support or GPUs under Intel’s Xe, RTX 30-series or RX 6000... I'm not sure the word SOON is being used wisely... Give it 5 years.
@@danieldelillo They use Mediatek Processors which are really good in the last year or two and do support AV1 along with VP9, HDR10+ Natively why not use the Cheaper and at least on low to Mid-High devices have better specs and cost to performance over SnapDragons (Qualcomm has really not given the 400 & 600 series as much love or support as they need to as countries like India, Bangledesh, Sudan etc are all 3rd or 2nd world countries trhat cant afford Flagships or even decent desktops or laptops so they need cheap and affordable phones also if you ever wondered by Android/Google only gives an average of 1 to 3 OS updates it is because Qualcomm only supports their SoC's for that long meanwhile Mediatek and a few other SoC designers will offer SoC Support for upto 4 to 5 years and while not often having as powerful cores or features are often not bad in the last generation or two especially when they are 1/2 to 1/3 the cost of Qualcomm's Offerings in the same performance range!
@@danieldelillo AV1 is used by Netflix & RU-vid especially on Chrome Browsers & Android Apps. While it is not as good as h.266 but is equal too h.265 if not slightly better and is Royalty Free making it a wise choice too use on a large scale saving Millions of Dollars a year!
Grand Theft Auto 3 runs natively on Fire OS. (It's on the operting system list of wikipedia, maybe still an emulator is used by Rockstar Games). I'm not sure if it's worth to check though. It will probably run fine.
Hmmm I just got the new 4k max. My old 4k stick played that God of war PSP better than In your video, I haven't tried to play it on the max yet. But with the settings I use I think I'll be able to get it looking like PSP quality.
The fire stick has been around for a while and all they can come up with is 2 gigs of RAM And 8 gigs of storage? I'm sure they'll be plenty of videos on how to stop buffering like the previous version
Amazon continues to be just stupid with only having 8GB of Internel storage capacity If only they would make It like 32GB of internal storage capacity but there are plenty of other companies out there who only have 8GB of Internel storage capacity like Anker and Walmart who have the same specs on their devices as well.
Hey, whenever you post the specs of an arm device, try to include the microarch label (A72,A55,A55). Bc the frequency doesn't meant anything without the microarch. Also the node used if you have the info. Nice vid!
The main reason for me to buy the 4K MAX was Wi-Fi 6 and the speed performance are horrible for me 😩 I’m getting more speed on my iPhone X then the new Firestick 4K MAX 👎👎 disappointing for the Wi-Fi speed.
I need to know right this second if this 4K MAX fot all of the Emulsions shown here is BETTER than the Google Chromecast with Google TV of which you did a video on in the past. Which is the BETTER of the two specifically for the emulations. Pretend that the two competing devices I mention here cannot do anything else. If the owner of this channel opinion on this, that would be great!
Awesome video ETA, wondering if there's a front end you can slap on here instead of using retroarch or stand alone emulators? I'd love to see that video
Wow no USB C 🤦🏼♂️ what were they thinking 🤔 Amazon should be ashamed of themselves for going with that Atrocious Micro USB. All that money Amazing had and they cheap out? I will just keep the 4k stick I have it's doing fine as well as my Nvidia Shield. 🤗 Thanks for Sharing ETA Prime. Love your work Bro 👊
Sorry ETA. You already sold me on an emulation station build with way more horsepower. But damn, this is one of those recommendations that actually doesn't cost $500. Probably cheapest way to run 64 emulation.
@@blingVolcano VGA to HDMI adapter if you have old PC that doesn't support HDMI. Or if you have a combination of a old CRT TV. It would be VGA to AV adapter. PC gamers don't sit at a desk. Get that image out your mind.
I like your videos very informative I used a review you did on the MSI GF76 Katana to help me decide to buy it any way I was wondering if you have tried RetroX emulator I have it installed on my Firetv as as a 4k Firestick and it works pretty well I have only done light emulating with it like Nes and Snes some Sega and N64 and it seemed to work pretty well if you get the chance I would like to see your review on RetroX on Firestick possibly running more advanced games I would myself but I don't have the Roms
a unity version of a dragonquest game was on the amazon store, I'd regard that as a great game. er, it probably doesn't work on newer versions of android than the one it was made for though.
I have a shield tv pro, and I would've loved for you to test streaming playback more in depth... Does it play MKV, mp4 dolby vision files? What about HDR, or HDR10, etc. Does it playback every audio codec like atmos, DTS, DTS-X, DD etc. Hope you can reply to this !
I bought a standard fire stick non 4k last year and it sucks, it is soooooooo slooooooow and delayed on everything, idk why they would stock that one it's so bad not sure if I'll ever go back to fire stick due to the complete obsolescence
That BENQ monitor looks like EW3280u , should have a video for it, like streaming Netflix 4K content with HDR , or pair with a 5700g build , play a 4K30 film and run AFM(BFRC) to make it 4K60, that should be nerdy enough for "AMD YES" crowd
I upgraded a few years ago to the 2018 4K. If they do a trade in offer again I may be tempted to get these due to the WiFi6 alone. Last time I was able to get these for about $20 each with a trade in, hard to pass up if that can be done again.
3:00 Finally Added a Search bar? We already had a Search bar (since the 1st generation FireTV stick), all you have to do is click left button on the remote a few time (while at home screen) till the Search option pop up.
That interface is revolting. Can't see any reason to use a fire stick over a box with stock Android. Even something like the TiVo box rolls this thing.
@@kalabash4952 That depends on your use case. These are good as affordable devices with all the DRM, HDR, Stability, Codec and high end audio support most people will ever need.
Um probably because it's not marketed as an emulation device? It's way faster going in and out of apps, and navigating the UI, which is the entire point of the upgrade.
@@kobeandgary It's just that... marketing nonsense! The CPU on this is barely faster than Fire Stick Lite, which could of been had for as low as $18. The major improvement is the extra little bit of ram to deal with all the extra bloat Amazon putting on these things, which can be disabled, so NO it's really not WAY faster! IMO, it's not worth the price bump and it's a disappointing update.
