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Re:Amazon blocks long-running FireTV capability, Breaking ap... by mh- on Saturday February 24, 2024 @11:32PM (#39497682)
Wow, thanks for pointing that out - didn't realize I'd had these ATV 4Ks since 2017. They feel a bit sluggish.. probably just that everything else got faster.

Time to upgrade.

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Re:Amazon blocks long-running FireTV capability, Breaking ap... by bogwog on Sunday February 25, 2024 @10:16AM (#39501407)
> They feel a bit sluggish.. probably just that everything else got faster.

Either the 4K videos of today are "heavier" than the ones from 2017 somehow, or Apple's system updates have slowed down your ATVs to convince you to buy new ones.

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Re:Amazon blocks long-running FireTV capability, Breaking ap... by nemo8551 on Sunday February 25, 2024 @01:48PM (#39503531)
On this I will say they are far more snappy than they used to be, battery life is great if you ask me.

But in real terms I moved my home streaming app of choice to infuse. Between that app and the Apple TV 4K I’ve had since just before they moved the remote to usb c it’s been great.

I will say that it is tucked inside a cupboard and hooked up to Ethernet but aside from that it’s leaps and bounds ahead of the other solutions I looked at /tried over the last few years.

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