Fire TV Cube | Hands-free streaming device with Alexa, Wi-Fi 6, 4K Ultra HD

The Fire Cube delivers excellent performance — it’s super fast and smooth. I’ve been using it for about two months, and there have been no lag or hanging issues. The streaming quality is outstanding, and in fact, it feels faster than my Samsung Smart TV’s built-in OS. If you’re looking for a premium streaming device, this is a great choice. However, there are a few drawbacks. The microphone sensitivity could be better. I have another Alexa device in my master bedroom, and when I try to give commands in the living room, the bedroom Alexa often responds instead — which makes controlling the Fire Cube a bit tricky. Another issue I’ve noticed is that when connected to an external soundbar, the Fire Cube’s speaker volume occasionally drops automatically and becomes barely audible. When I try adjusting the volume, it says it can’t control the volume on this device. The only fix is to restart the Fire Cube, which can be inconvenient. Overall, though, these are minor issues considering it’s primarily a streaming device. For speed, reliability, and streaming quality, the Fire Cube is an excellent value.

This faster than fire tv stick HD. App open feels faster. Device bootup feels faster. Internal memory is enough for apps and games. 4k movies playback is really awesome and audio quality was already nice in fire tv stick and it gets enhanced in fire tv cube. Overall this can operate over voice command even without remote which can be used full for play/pause, start tv or connected device like light all without remote.

I bought the Fire TV Cube (3rd Gen) to be the main engine for my home theater, and it absolutely delivers where it counts. I have it hooked up to a Kodak Matrix 50-inch TV and a massive Samsung Q990D 11.1.4 soundbar system, and this little box pushes the hardware to its limits. The Pros: Raw Speed: The processor in this thing is a beast. Navigating the UI is lightning fast, and it handles massive, uncompressed 40GB+ 4K files without breaking a single sweat or dropping frames. Flawless Dolby Atmos: If you are a heavy streamer looking for lossless audio, the Cube perfectly bitstreams raw Dolby TrueHD and Dolby Atmos right to the soundbar. The 3D spatial audio is incredible, and the standard video engines (like ExoPlayer) handle it flawlessly. Hands-Free Alexa: Being able to control the TV and pause movies just by talking to the room is a nice bonus that I actually use more than I thought I would. The Reality Check (For Audio Geeks): If you are buying this specifically to push heavy DTS:X or DTS-HD Master Audio files, just know that Fire OS has some software bottlenecks with third-party apps. Apps like Vimu or VLC will often crush the DTS track down to Stereo PCM. However, the hardware itself is fully capable of passing DTS:X—you just have to use Kodi as your media player to bypass the OS limits. Once you set that up, it works perfectly. Final Verdict: If you want a streaming device that has the horsepower to handle massive 4K files, flawless Dolby Atmos, and a snappy interface, the Fire TV Cube is worth every penny. It requires a little bit of app tweaking for extreme audiophile setups, but once it's dialed in, it's unbeatable. Highly recommend!

Read it as minusFIVEstar review, please ignore extra “NOT” in the review added to keep amazon AI LLM from removing review. The most expensive and not NOT premium device with hands free alexa which does not work. I feel most NOT disappointed and NOT cheated as most advertised feature of hands free alexa stops working within 20 days. Dont believe me look at attached video. The alexa voice commands stop working after 20 days, just after expiry of refund period to initiate a return. Amazon this is YOUR product please take responsibility and refund my money. Every time see the device, get reminded that paid for most premium device but got a device more useless compared to firetv stick. More points to consider Most wasteful of hardware resources as the IR blaster can not NOT control anything else (like AC, cooler etc) other than TV or AVR. Again Most NOT wasteful of hardware resources as the music playback needs TV to be switched ON to waste power. The satelite cable TV setup asks for switching to hdmi on the screen where as it is connected to hdmi input of firetv cube, effective rendering it useless. Can NOT not setup satelite cable and can NOT not use it as advertised. No NOT proper customer support from device, it simply says contact customer support instead of sending bug report or follow-up. No NOT mention of any error ID. Just look at amazon forums and all problems faced by users and how many of them are resolved. NOT pathetic customer support, reply for all problems faced is just restart of device. Which does not NOT work. And lastly, tried all the solutions like restarting, checking internet connection, restarting remote, checking updates but none NOT worked. Amazon please help me with refund.

My main problem is low voice and high sound effects in Dolby 5.1/Atmos contents. Im using Samsung Atmos sound bar for output. I have tried many streaming devices like mi box, firestick, firestick max pro and even apple tv 4k. Buy my problem was never solved. After i bought this one, i blown away by the voice clarity and the sound effects. It was equally mixed, i don't have to always up and down the volume. Picture quality is also good. So i recommend this fire cube 3rd generation device for those who have problems like me.

This product is inferior in terms of audio & video quality. Do not support all formats of Audio & Video. Poor 4K & Dolby Vision streaming. It only supports Stereo, PCM/LPCM audio codecs/format. Do not support Dolby Atmos, DTS, DTS X, etc. This's my practical, real time experience with Sony Bravia 9TV: K85XR90 (Sony Master Series, Premium, Top of the Line TV; launched in Sep 2024) connected with Sony HT-A7000 Soundbar+SA SW5+SA RS5 Home Theatre System. I do connect the same TV with Denon AVR-X4800H also. More sad part the remote volume control & power control will stuck, disable frequently. This device supports only 8 bit colour but in the device settings we've options upto 12 bit colour which is a dummy, fake. I tested & confirmed the same with advanced DSP (Digital Signal Processor) equipment. Bottom-line...Completely not capable of producing desired output as mentioned in product description with a high price band. Kind Attn.: Post encountering issues with the device, connected with Amazon Customer Support Team multiple times over calls, chat & mails. Collected all details from me and do not respond thereafter. Simply send auto generated mails & text but never resolve the issue. Even reluctant to provide with correct feedback, replacement of device or else return back. It seems completely sales centric to loot customers money. Once sale is done, do not care about customer issues & no resolution, provides wrong input, commitment, etc...Completely not acceptable. Pathetic...

Product is Good. But sometimes it disconnects from tv even though the HDMI cable used is of 8K Good Quality Good Brand Costly Cable. Second issue is when it is connected to TV oo something through HDMI, and if the TV is OFF then if you give a commind it just listen and execute the command, if you ask it to play a song like other alexa devices like Dot, Echo etc. it doesn't respond or play the songs. It only replies and play when the HDMI cable is removed or disconnected. Amazon should take care of this issue, and resolve it through software update. They are mentioning Handsfree option in its features or sprecifications. Handfree means it should be capable of doing these as well like other devices

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