Your Fireplace TV dwelling display might change quickly, and never everybody’s a fan

If you happen to’ve been utilizing a Fireplace TV machine for some time, like a Fireplace TV Stick, you then’re in all probability accustomed to Amazon altering the structure of the house display every now and then — generally a lot to the annoyance of its customers.

Late final 12 months, Amazon started testing a brand new dwelling display structure with a small subset of customers, which modified the navigation bar, eradicating your most visited streaming apps from it and putting them additional down the house display as an alternative (through AFTV Information). This may make it a bit extra difficult to get to your favourite streaming apps shortly.

This new dwelling display structure was first seen in November of final 12 months, and never a lot has been heard about it since — till now. A Redditor just lately posted about their first-generation Fireplace TV Stick 4K receiving a brand new dwelling display structure, which is equivalent to the one seen being examined final 12 months. It does not seem that this new dwelling display has been rolled out extensively, which implies Amazon is probably going once more testing it with a small group of customers.

Based on AFTV Information, Amazon typically conducts small assessments like this to gauge consumer reactions, so it is potential it’s as soon as once more contemplating adopting this new structure for all customers. You possibly can take a look at the unique Reddit put up under.

Model

Amazon

Decision

4K

Audio codecs

Dolby Atmos

RAM/storage

16 GB

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Amazon will not inform you about this draw back of proudly owning a Fireplace Stick, however I’ll

The Fireplace TV Stick has a obtrusive problem.

Fireplace TV customers aren’t happy with the brand new dwelling display

Amazon would possibly wish to rethink this one

With this new dwelling display replace, your prime streaming apps are moved from the higher navigation menu to a decrease place on the house display, previous a row of advised content material (as seen within the picture above).

Along with your prime streaming providers moved decrease down, the navigation menu now has ample clean house to the suitable, suggesting Amazon might have plans so as to add extra navigation shortcuts, or worse, extra advertisements. At present, the navigation bar consists of the house display button, search icon, stay TV, video games, and My Stuff (your watchlist, purchases, leases, and extra).

Consumer reactions to the Fireplace TV dwelling display structure are, to this point, fairly adverse, primarily based on responses on Reddit. One Redditor known as the design “dreadful” and stated that “the helpful stuff that you really want is just not barely seen in comparison with all of the suggestions that are simply de facto commercials.” One other Redditor referred to the replace as making the Amazon Fireplace TV Stick 4K the “Amazon Commercial Stick 4K.”

One other Reddit remark I noticed states, “I might really be kind of okay with all of this if the apps row had been the highest row.” I agree with this, and I might be extra snug with this modification if it meant I did not need to navigate previous a row of content material I do not care about to succeed in my prime streaming apps. This new dwelling display structure continues to be in testing, so it might not ever be rolled out extensively. Based mostly on consumer reactions on-line, Amazon would possibly wish to think about taking this one again to the drafting board.

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