
That first Fire TV Stick, bequeathed to Tested Technology at the launch in the summer of 2015 was still going strong this year, thanks in large part to frequent updates from Amazon. They may get outdated in a year or two but so what? Buy the next one for the price of a few coffees.Įxcept that’s not what happened in our household. So buy a TV with a decent picture and leave it to little gizmos like the Fire TV Stick to take care of the clever stuff. Fine if manufacturers keep their TV firmware regularly updated. The problem with so-called “Smart TVs”, we argued, is that while the screen technology should be good for at least five years, the electronic smarts get outdated very quickly. We reviewed the first Amazon Fire TV Stick back in 2015 and praised it for being a cheap “disposable” add-on that could turn a regular TV into a Smart TV.



