January 2020
Beginner to intermediate
256 pages
6h 9m
English
Content preview from Amazon Fire TV For Dummies
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Chapter 1
Understanding Streaming Media
IN THIS CHAPTER
Getting a grip on streaming media
Figuring out streaming media devices
Making sense of how streaming works
Talking about streaming apps and hardware
Electronics such as Amazon’s Fire TV devices — the Fire TV Stick, Fire Stick 4K, and Fire TV Cube — are streaming media devices.
If that sentence makes perfect sense to you, then you may want to move on to Chapter 2 because the next few pages probably won’t tell you anything you don’t already know. However, if you’re scratching your head in bafflement, get comfy and prepare to be de-baffled!
In this chapter, you explore the two-sides-of-the-same-coin ideas of streaming media and streaming media devices, which are at the core of the Fire TV experience. Do you really need to know this background to use Fire TV? Will having a working definition of streaming benefit you when you’re binge-watching Fleabag? Well, okay, the honest answer is “No” on both counts. Or, I should say, the answer is “No” if you don’t care about getting the most out of your Fire TV investment, you’re not the ...