Today is likely the last day to get the Amazon Fire TV on sale for $49.99 or the Fire TV Stick on sale for $29.99. Amazon has not revealed exactly when the current sale will end, but today is the 7th day of the sale and similar sales in the past have ended after a week. If you’re wondering if the new Fire TV with 4K and HDR support is right for you, take a look at this article from earlier this week that discusses the pros and cons of the new model.
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Also Note that Directv Now has the Fire TV 4K promo that only requires you to prepay for “1”month of service (=$35 minimum).
Today I did the DirectTV deal, via eBates. eBates gives you $16 cash back, over and above the free FTV3. So it comes to $19. I’ll ebay it for profit if I do not like the device.
You would have done even better had you gone through Befrugal. Befrugal is offering $22 + $10 sign up making the Fire TV 4K cost $3
And the apple tv 4k cost $73!!
I didn’t want to setup yet another account.
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You were right Elias.
I got my FTV3 from the Direct TV deal. It sucks! It doesn’t seem to play back 4k media any better than the FTV2. Actually I think it is even worse. In addition, with no usb/sd card port, and the fact that the new OS blocks apps like “apps2fire” from working, it is a huge PITA to get things like Smart Youtube Tv installed.
After messing around with it for an hour or so, I have already listed it on ebay. Good riddance.