2019-02-21, 03:28
I found an important drawback in Fire TV Stick 4K -- it has no hardware decoding support for VC1 codec, and it is not speedy enough to decode it in software. This means that many or actually most of the Bu-ray rip ISOs will not play. In comparison both Fire TV 2 and Fire TV 3 (pendant) can hardware decode VC1 with SPMC, MrMC and the latest Kodi Leia 18.1. This make it a no-go with Kodi for me. I am keeping my Fire TV 3 pendants as they are the only Amazon hardware that does 4K, HDR, plays Blu-rays and has decent deinterlacing for mpeg2 live TV streams from my HDHomerun.