Fire TV vs. fire stick

[79wjd]

Does anyone have any personal experience with both? I currently have a fire stick (that I can exchange for a fire tv) hooked up to my 4K tv (yes I know the fire stick doesn't do 4K). Anyway, I get a bit of occasional stutter when streaming over my fire stick and I was wondering if it has to do with the stick being underpowered, overheating, or something unrelated to the stick entirely.

I mainly stream off a plex server that's hosted on my freeNAS server and that's where I seem to notice the stutter to be occurring. It seems to happen when I stream both large movies (raw 40gb blurays rips) and small low quality tv episodes (200mb).

[terrytek]

the fire tv is much more powerful has better storage and more ram. so i would go with the fire tv.

[79wjd]

the fire tv is much more powerful has better storage and more ram. so i would go with the fire tv.

I don't necessarily need any of that other than more cpu power (if it's a lack of power in the fire stick that's causing the stutter). The only other consideration would be 4K, which is only I the fire to but I don't really are about that for now.

[johnny5c]

Does anyone have any personal experience with both? I currently have a fire stick (that I can exchange for a fire tv) hooked up to my 4K tv (yes I know the fire stick doesn't do 4K). Anyway, I get a bit of occasional stutter when streaming over my fire stick and I was wondering if it has to do with the stick being underpowered, overheating, or something unrelated to the stick entirely.

I mainly stream off a plex server that's hosted on my freeNAS server and that's where I seem to notice the stutter to be occurring. It seems to happen when I stream both large movies (raw 40gb blurays rips) and small low quality tv episodes (200mb).

This worked on mine.. On the server app go to settings/player and uncheck experimental player. 

[79wjd]

This worked on mine.. On the server app go to settings/player and uncheck experimental player. 

I decided to try Plex on my TV itself and it doesn't seem to suffer any of the lag/stuttering issues I was getting with the fire stick. So it's possible that it was a wifi or CPU issue with the fire stick. I'll probably return the fire stick since I can do pretty much everything straight from my TV (Android TV) and I'll just pick up a fire stick in the future if/when I want a jailbroken media streamer/source. 

[johnny5c]

I decided to try Plex on my TV itself and it doesn't seem to suffer any of the lag/stuttering issues I was getting with the fire stick. So it's possible that it was a wifi or CPU issue with the fire stick. I'll probably return the fire stick since I can do pretty much everything straight from my TV (Android TV) and I'll just pick up a fire stick in the future if/when I want a jailbroken media streamer/source. 

I had problems with the wifi dropping out on my Fire TV stick so ended up replacing it with a Chromecast and it's worked flawlessly since.  Also have two Samsung smart TV's and never had a problem with the Plex app.

[79wjd]

I had problems with the wifi dropping out on my Fire TV stick so ended up replacing it with a Chromecast and it's worked flawlessly since.  Also have two Samsung smart TV's and never had a problem with the Plex app.

Yeah, supposedly there is a known wifi issue with the fire stick caused by a poor antenna/poor signal due to it's position against the TV or some combination of the two (connecting it via an HDMI extension supposedly alleviates the issue for some people). 

[johnny5c]

Yeah, supposedly there is a known wifi issue with the fire stick caused by a poor antenna/poor signal due to it's position against the TV or some combination of the two (connecting it via an HDMI extension supposedly alleviates the issue for some people). 

I tried using a extension, both 6" and 3' and it didn't make any difference on mine.  I just built a new house that has multiple CAT6 runs in each room so still might try a Fire TV and hardwire it.