I have a Fire TV hooked up via Ethernet to a Samsung 4K UHD capable TV. About 70% of the time when starting a 4K video, the unit shuts down. It won't start again until I pull the power plug and reboot. Regular programming is fine. Anyone seen this before?
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I have connected the Fire TV to my projector using a HDFury HDMI to VGA converter and the Fire TV outputs a 1080p signal. In theory it can handle 1080p, but the picture shows some artifacts. All other devices I have connected this way (DVB-S receiver, WDTV Live) I have set to output 720p and everything works fine.
Now in the Fire TV I cannot set any other resolution option than "Auto", for everything else I get an error "Unsupported Resolution". Any hints? Any way to force 720p on the Fire TV?
I have my new (Oct 2015) Fire TV plugged directly into my television and the screen is constantly flickering/flashing white and sometimes cuts out altogether for a brief second. Clicking something on the remote stops the flickering for about 5-10s before it starts up again.
I've tried replacing the HDMI cable and adjusting the video resolution but the issue continues. I contacted Amazon and they very nicely sent me a new device, but I'm getting the exact same behavior with the new one.
Video playback is actually fine, unless I pause it - then it starts flickering again.
I've used other media players with the HDMI port on my TV and haven't had any issues at all. Is there something different about the output of the FireTV that my TV just doesn't like?
Any ideas?
Hi Guys,
I have a new Fire TV 4k. I learnt about the resolution switch via 'rewind and up' however when its in 1080p24 my TV displays an output but its 60Hz. I cannot seem to get it to switch to 24Hz.
Does anyone have any idea's why?
Thanks,
I've got 8 fire stick tvs in the house and we use Hulu and almost always stream live tv. When some of the tvs are shut off streaming stops while with many others the fire stick continues to stream after the tv is turned off. Crazy data consumption! I know that if we hit the Home button first the streaming will stop but is there any way to just stop streaming on the 4 tvs that continue?
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I used to power my ChromeCast using the USB port on my HDTV.
That worked until I added my FirestickTV.
I now use a "smart power strip" and the ChromeCast/FirestickTV only receive power if the HDTV is turned on.
IDK if there's a setting to power down the FireStick if the HDMI connection is null/dead but good luck!
It sounds like it may be a HDMI CEC issue.
Does anyone have any idea why my fire tv 2 Sloane always does 4k in the downloader app, but switches to 1080p on everything else?? Also, even though it switches to 4k in the downloader app I cannot choose a 4k resolution in the settings.
I'm looking for any suggestions or solutions, but please, it is NOT A TV ISSUE. it happens on both my 4k tvs and my fire stick does 4k without issues on both of the TV's.