Fire TV Cube with Alexa Voice Remote Pro

Tired of how long it takes to open this app or that. So I got a fire Cube. Everything in one place. Alexa opens most everything for me now. I can spend my time watching instead of constantly pressing buttons on my unresponsive tv remote. The fire Pro remote rocks. I can open streaming services with one button, I assigned two more on the remote, which was great. They say this has more buffering and a better picture. Don't know. Do know it looks incredible and the Cube hasn't choked on a stream yet. I'm very, very pleased with the Cube.

I upgraded all my firesticks to this cube... I am so happy! There is no buffering or lagging and all the other issues I was having with my outdated firesticks! I love that when I walk into the room I just tell Alexa to turn the TV on. The setup out the box was so easy as it was already set up to work with my existing products. I also love how my ring shows up on the TV when someone rings the doorbell. Overall, I am very happy with this product!

Upgrade from fire stick to fire cube! Works great!

Had the Amazon Firrsticks on my TV's throughout the house. I loved when I purchased this for the living room. I like the ease of changing things such a channels and volume with just my voice and not needing a remote. Purchased another for the Master Bedroom and Family room. As you can see it is not a large bulky item it is easy to put on a shelf near tv. Then a box containing a new one. I use the firestick's for when we travel now.

I bought this Fire Cube on a whim, based on the hardware specifications and I'm glad I did. Pairing this up with a 65-in LG OLED TV 2 Amazon echo studio first generation and one echo sub and I've got one heck of a nice looking and sounding setup. My ultimate goal is to get true Dolby Atmos via a 13.1 surround sound system my currently have not set up but I'm confident the fire cube will work fabulously. I would generally say this device is easy to use, if you can use a fire stick you can use the fire cube. My problem is however when I pay full price for an item I should have an option to turn off ads. Granted they are not full screen but make the main menu / home menu seem very cluttered. I should be able to turn the ads and the recommendations off so I can only see what I want. Additionally the limitation on the number of favorited apps is kind of lame. With everything going to streaming apps and still coming out cheaper than cable or satellite I should have more space to have my apps on the home screen rather than ads or even more infuriating ads for the apps I can't add to my favorites because I already have the favorites bar filled. Why not let us customize the home screen? Voice commands tend to work really well and I've gotten used to Alexa + and apparently it's gotten used to me. The only issue I have there is no matter what I choose for the wake word it randomly will pause whatever I'm watching because it thought it heard the trigger word even if I said it to Ziggy. I mean how many freaking conversations can you have that involve any words that come close to saying Ziggy? It's a minor nuisance and it's rare. Outside of that with Alexa + any of my other devices can also control the fire cube which is nice because if I'm in the other room longer than I expected I can tell the nearest echo to pause the TV. Volume control has become a little bit wonky the last couple weeks. Somehow it switches to try and control the television volume rather than the home theater setup with the Echo Studios and Subwoofer. Something that was quite surprising to me is it's range with IR control. I have a really expensive Logitech remote that I have not had to use once since getting the fire cube as the fire cube seems exceptionally capable of controlling any nearby devices. This may change as the surround sound unit that is currently being set up for full theatrical style Dolby Atmos is in the room behind the living room. This may require me either simply get the additional IR blaster extension device or go back to the Logitech remote. And while the remote that comes with the fire cube is quite nice, the pro version of the remote is much better in function and actually feels a lot more sturdy and just seems like it has a much better build quality. Totally worth the price and definitely worth the addition to the fire cube. I'm picking up a second fire cube to hook up to a really nice computer gaming monitor for my bedroom, since I don't have a TV in there and I can play Xbox game pass games, in addition to the fact that the fire cube supports higher frame rates adaptive frame rates and other game related features, I see it as a great inexpensive way to play Xbox series X games without buying another Xbox or moving the Xbox into my bedroom. The additional HDMI in is fantastic because I can plug in the Apple TV and verbally I can just tell the fire cube to switch to HDMI and Bob's your uncle Apple TV. I find a lot of times I switched to the Apple TV because of its home screen layout and customizable folders so you can sort all your apps nice and neat, but the downside is just keeping track of that tiny remote from Apple. To be clear I'm not a fanboy of Apple or Alexa so the only comparison I will make between the two is the fact that Apple had the foresight to allow you to put all of your apps out there on one screen, let you move them around and sort into folders that you can put custom titles on such as games, streaming services, etc. And no ads none. So quick summary, the Amazon Fire Cube is a really nice device. Hardware wise it seems to be very well thought out and implemented, and some of the updates have brought cool features like being able to set up a home theater using the studios, the downside is the clutter of the home screen. It's not like a fire tablet where I pay an extra fee to not see ads on the lock screen, I'm paying full price right out of the gate and once it's set up you're greeted with ads for shows that a lot of times you can't watch because you don't subscribe to that service ads for apps you may already use and it can't get rid of, or ads for apps You have no interest in. And if you have a Fire TV recast, it is a nice addition and works fantastically, it's the only part of the home screen that makes any sense. It shows you the last channels you watched to quickly switch to them or you can go to the guide. Outside of that Amazon should let us turn all these ads off, or give us a discount for renting the movie or downloading the app or heck a discount on a purchase from Amazon but I'd rather be able to just simply not see the ads especially the bar ads that decide the home screen. Grapes aside, I still really recommend the Fire Cube over the sticks simply because the Cube is still and Echo device when the TV is off. Two in one.

MUCH faster and stable than the FireSticks so less time waiting and more time watching 📺 Also has much more storage than the sticks

This cube and the one purchased in 2020 did not last very long. Started having buffering issues.

My old fire tv cube was lagging and just running sluggish in everyway. I decided to retire it to the bedroom tv that does not get used as much and by this newer version. I can say it was money well spent. everything is now running great. Lag issues have disappeared along all of the other quirks. I am guessing they have done some improvements with the processor and other components in the cube. It is still funny with voice recognition at times, but nothing that makes it a deal killer. use the Alexa app and it becomes your hub for all of your smart devices like lights, thermostat, door bell camera, security camera etc. Great but at a reasonable price for what it does.