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Published:
January 9, 2020

Amazon Fire TV For Dummies

Overview

Enjoy more entertainment with this friendly user guide to making the most of Amazon Fire TV!

Find and watch more of the shows you enjoy with Amazon Fire TV For Dummies. This book guides you through Fire TV connections and setup and then shows you how to get the most out of your device. This guide is the convenient way to access quick viewing tips, so there’s no need to search online for information or feel frustrated. With this book by your side, you’ll quickly feel right at home with your streaming device.

Content today can be complicated. You want to watch shows on a variety of sources, such as Hulu, Amazon Prime, Netflix, and the top premium channels. Amazon’s media device organizes

the streaming of today’s popular content services. It lets you use a single interface to connect to the entertainment you can’t wait to watch. This book helps you navigate your Fire TV to find the content you really want. It will show you how to see your favorite movies, watch binge-worthy TV shows, and even play games on Fire TV.

  • Get the information you need to set up and start using Fire TV.
  • Understand the basics of how to use the device
  • Explore an array of useful features and streaming opportunities
  • Learn techniques to become a streaming pro

Conquer the world of Fire TV with one easy-to-understand book. Soon you’ll be discovering the latest popcorn-worthy shows.

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About The Author

Paul McFedries has been involved with computers for more than 40 years. He has been a programmer, database developer, consultant, and website developer, and now devotes his time to helping others understand technology. His 95-plus books, covering everything from Amazon Alexa to web coding, have sold more than four million copies worldwide.

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CHEAT SHEET

Fire TV makes your life simpler by bringing a bunch of streaming services under a single roof. However, that simplicity hides a complicated system that takes a while to master. To help you smooth out that initial learning curve, this Cheat Sheet offers a handy reference to a few important Fire TV things. Here you’ll find a quick guide to the most important Fire TV settings, a list of 50 — yep, 50 — of the most useful Fire TV–related Alexa voice requests, and a comprehensive glossary of words and phrases related to Fire TV and streaming stuff.

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This article offers you a ten-step program for using Fire TV to go cable-free. If that sounds like bliss to you, then read on, cord-cutter, read on. Did you know that a cord-hater is someone who dislikes paying for cable TV? That person may then become a cord-shaver, who takes steps to reduce her cable TV bill.
You may think there’s something, well, odd about this article. After all, isn’t it a tad weird to be talking about Fire TV privacy and security when all you’re mostly doing with Fire TV is watching TV shows and movies? Does binge-watching The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel require privacy? Do you have to ratchet up your security settings just to view Despicable Me 2?
Electronics such as Amazon’s Fire TV devices — the Fire TV Stick, Fire Stick 4K, and Fire TV Cube — are streaming media devices.Explore the two-sides-of-the-same-coin ideas of streaming media and streaming media devices, which are at the core of the Fire TV experience. Do you really need to know this background to use Fire TV?
Fire TV makes your life simpler by bringing a bunch of streaming services under a single roof. However, that simplicity hides a complicated system that takes a while to master. To help you smooth out that initial learning curve, this Cheat Sheet offers a handy reference to a few important Fire TV things. Here you’ll find a quick guide to the most important Fire TV settings, a list of 50 — yep, 50 — of the most useful Fire TV–related Alexa voice requests, and a comprehensive glossary of words and phrases related to Fire TV and streaming stuff.
In this article, you explore the Fire TV landscape from hot-air-balloon height. From this perspective, you learn what Fire TV is, how you get it, and how to choose a Fire TV device if you haven’t jumped on the bandwagon as yet. You also take a tour of what Fire TV can do and learn how the Alexa voice assistant fits into everything.
Listen to the article:Download audio What is the Amazon Fire TV Stick? The Amazon Fire TV Stick is a device joining the ranks of home entertainment streaming technologies. The Fire Stick plugs into your TV’s HDMI port giving you access to your favorite TV shows, movies, subscription services, music, photos, and games.
Before you can use Alexa to control your Fire TV device, you need to download the Alexa app, enable it to communicate via your smartphone or tablet's microphone, and then introduce Alexa to Fire TV.The Alexa app is a program that you download to your smartphone or tablet. With the Alexa app, you can connect your Alexa devices to your Wi-Fi network, provide Alexa with your location, connect to smart-home devices, provide the details of your Amazon account, and much more.
If you have a Fire TV Cube, you need to position the device optimally, connect the device to your TV, and then trudge through the setup procedure. The following discussion explains all. Photograph courtesy of AmazonAmazon’s Fire TV Cube. How to position your Fire TV Cube After you’ve liberated your Fire TV Cube from its packaging, one obvious question arises: Where the heck do you put it?
Your Fire TV Edition comes with an Alexa Voice Remote that you use to navigate the Fire TV interface (either by pressing buttons or by using voice commands). Before proceeding with the Fire TV Edition configuration, remove the back cover of the Alexa Voice Remote, insert the two batteries that came with Fire TV Edition, and then reattach the back cover.
If you have a Fire TV Stick or Fire TV Stick 4K, you need to connect the device to your TV and then run through the setup procedure. The following discussion takes you through all the steps. How to connect Fire TV Stick to your TV Your Fire TV Stick connects to your TV’s HDMI port, which on most TVs is labeled HDMI.
Whatever Fire TV device you own, if you’re like most people, you probably think that what Fire TV brings to your home is an easily configured and navigable streaming media device. That’s certainly true, but Fire TV comes with a “bonus” feature that lots of people miss: It turns your TV into a smart speaker, which means it can listen for, understand, and carry out your voice instructions or questions.
No device is completely infallible. This article explains ten of the most common problems related to Fire TV software and hardware, and shows you how to solve every one of them.Fire TV devices, such as the Fire TV Stick, Fire TV Stick 4K, and Fire TV Cube, are extremely simple, spartan even, when viewed from the outside.
Alexa can do an amazing range of things, but as a Fire TV user I’m sure your main concern is using Alexa to locate, play, and control the playback of movies and TV shows on your Fire TV device. Here, I go through a few ways to use voice requests to interact with movies and TV shows. Remember that if you’re interacting with Alexa through a Fire TV Cube, an Echo smart speaker, or a similar Alexa-enabled device, then you need to precede each utterance with the wake word Alexa.
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