Amazon Fire TV Stick

Re:Amazon Fire TV Stick by mcintyre1994 on Monday October 27, 2014 @08:33PM (#8518937)

"Fire TV stick cannot be powered directly by your HDTV and should be plugged into the wall"

That's really disappointing, I'd rather have less power and be able to power via the TV USB port like chromecast. Maybe even a dealbreaker, definitely broke my impulse buy for now.

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Re:Amazon Fire TV Stick by anonymouse123 on Tuesday October 28, 2014 @02:00AM (#8519724)

I'm assuming it means it's the same as the Chromecast, i.e. it isn't powered from the HDMI port.

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Re:Amazon Fire TV Stick by ripter on Tuesday October 28, 2014 @12:09PM (#8521695)

Chromecast is typically powered by the USB port on the TV, not the wall. I'm not going to buy this if I need to plug it into the wall.

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Re:Amazon Fire TV Stick by dragonwriter on Tuesday October 28, 2014 @12:27PM (#8521794)

> Chromecast is typically powered by the USB port on the TV, not the wall.

Chromecast is powered by USB, whether that comes from the TV or the wall depends on whether the TV has a free USB port (which requires having a USB port to start with.) I suspect lots of Chromecasts are used with older, pre-USB TVs (the popularity of TV USB ports largely coincides with Smart TVs, and Chromecast adds more to a TV that isn't already a Smart TV.)

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