![]() When it comes to picture and sound quality, the news is mostly very good. I had no problem getting Asphalt 8 up and running, but don’t expect a powerhouse games machine. Where the Apple TV gives you access to Apple Arcade, Amazon’s app store only covers a subset of Android games and you won’t find major titles such as Call of Duty: Mobile or Genshin Impact represented. The other advantage – enough performance to play Android games – isn’t much of a selling point within Amazon’s ecosystem. Bear in mind, however, that rival Roku and Fire TV 4K Max products don’t exactly feel slow. If you have a relatively old or low-end 4K smart TV, the smoothness and snappiness will be a revelation. With the new octa-core CPU and 2GB of RAM, switching from screen to screen or menu to menu is limited only by the speed of the app or service and your internet connection. You have to be fairly careful and direct about the language you use but, as well as search, you can turn the volume up and down for TV speakers or a connected soundbar, or switch between the Fire TV and whatever source you have connected through the HDMI input, be it an Xbox or a TV set-top box. Otherwise, Alexa voice control can be a real time-saver. Sure, it works with Discovery+, but we need it for Netflix and Disney+ as well. ![]() However, I did sometimes find myself presented with a screen full of episodes to choose from, or even dumped at the profile selection page.Īnnoyingly, Amazon profiles still don’t sync up with profiles from most other services, which seems to me to be a weakness of the system. This worked brilliantly on Amazon series – it had no problems finding my place in The Peripheral or Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power – but only moderately well with Disney+, NowTV or Netflix content. The Alexa integration makes the content more accessible rather than browsing around with the remote control, it’s often simpler to use voice search to locate shows and movies or ask Alexa to play the next episode.
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