Featuresīoth devices offer Dolby Atmos, the current king of surround sound formats, plus the usual formats, both lossy and uncompressed, for stereo music. That's a shame from a neatness point of view, but while the Amazon device is cumbersome for a stick-shaped streamer, it’s more compact and easier to hide than the Apple. There is, though, an HDMI extender in the box that can mitigate the latter issue, as well as improve wi-fi performance.Īmazon also recommends that the Fire TV Stick 4K should be powered via the mains, rather than your TV’s USB socket.

That means it may protrude past the edge of your TV if plugged into one of its sideways-facing HDMI sockets, and it can be a bit of a squeeze if the adjacent sockets are also occupied. Though much smaller than the Apple TV 4K, at 10cm long, the Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K is actually quite large for a stick-shaped streamer. Ensuring it has some cool air will be useful though – we had no issues with overheating, but the ring of slim vents on the underside are there for a reason.

But this isn't an unwieldy set-up: it’s 10cm square and 3.5cm tall, and its remote works without line-of-sight, which means it can be easily hidden away. In practical terms, the biggest difference is that the Apple TV 4K doesn’t simply attach to your TV.

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