My firs stick is a little over a year old. I have it plugged in and when I watch Netflix or Hulu the show will just pause itself and then when I play it again there will be no sound. I have to get up and unplug it from the HDMI port and plug it back in and then it'll only play for a few minutes before it does it again. Sometimes it'll do it on the home screen when you can hear the "clicking" when going from app to app. My tv is about 8 years old so my question is if it is the firestick, netflix/hulu, or just my tv?
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For as long as I had this aftv it has the sound cut in & out maybe 50% of the time. I thought it was a bug/defective unit since no other streaming device has issues. A reboot ALWAYS fixes the sound issue.
Last nite I pretty much confirmed its the tv causing this because I had set the sleep timer, but was still watching xbmc. I turned the tv back on. The video was still playing but sound cut in & out.
I have tried different cables, though I only have a couple of hq hdmis. There is no firmware update I could find for this tv. Taking a chance someone might know of a trick to fix this VERY annoying issue.
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For as long as I had this aftv it has the sound cut in & out maybe 50% of the time. I thought it was a bug/defective unit since no other streaming device has issues. A reboot ALWAYS fixes the sound issue.
Last nite I pretty much confirmed its the tv causing this because I had set the sleep timer, but was still watching xbmc. I turned the tv back on. The video was still playing but sound cut in & out.
I have tried different cables, though I only have a couple of hq hdmis. There is no firmware update I could find for this tv. Taking a chance someone might know of a trick to fix this VERY annoying issue.
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I've been losing audio sometimes too. I have my FTV hooked to my Yamaha receiver with HDMI. I figured out that my receiver needs to be on first, before I wake up the FTV. If I wake the FTV up, and then turn on the receiver, I have no audio. Make sure you power on your TV first, then wake up the FTV. If that doesn't work, try the opposite. Wake up the FTV, then turn on the 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?
Ok so I bought a hdmi to usb-c cable so I could download movies from netflix for offline use and plug it up to my tv and watch them, but I tried and it for a couple of seconds it'll play on my phone but i get a black screen on my tv then my phone pretty much says video playback error
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.
I've made a Home Theatre with the FireStick TV 4k and the Echo Plus (2 times) systems. But everytime i ask Alexa to play Music (with TV off) it starts music, and turns the TV on. Thing that considering that all was made in the Bedroom, it is annoying. Sleep music is so not possible, as the TV turns on, and makes a lot of Light. Is there a solution you know of?
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