2020-12-14, 20:39
Its a shame really, the Fire TV Stick 4K was a great budget Kodi device upon its release thanks to its proper colour space switching and up to 7.1 PCM decoding/output support but over the last 2 years Amazon has steadily made it worse. First removing the ability to output multichannel PCM and now removing support for IEC encoding (and as a result DTS) as well. The FTV4K is still a great streaming device but for local playback its just too handicapped. This latest change was the last straw, I returned my recently purchased FTV Cube (didn't work right anyway) on the weekend and finally broke down and bought a Shield TV Pro 2019. I'll keep the FTV4K hooked up since I prefer its Prime Video interface to the Android TV one but the Shield will now be my primary device.