Ours should be here tomorrow. I kinda wish I had ordered 2 when they were on sale.
thanks Dis'ers, for the heads up on this find, btw.
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Ours should be here tomorrow. I kinda wish I had ordered 2 when they were on sale.
thanks Dis'ers, for the heads up on this find, btw.
wvjules
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Mine came in today!
I would like to tell y'all about it, but I can't. It's updating the software.
I know, I had to LOL at that too.
Ok, it took me a few minutes to figure it out.
The stick needs to be within a certain range of the tiny remote. Can't have the tv blocking the stick/remote connection (I had it plugged in behind the tv at first). Need to have an electric plug available, to plug the fire stick in.
The remote is tiny and I had to play with the batteries a bit to get it to work.
To get started, it tells you what button to push.
At some point you have to push the big button inside the top "circle" to really get going. That threw me for a minute---no directions to do it, the stick just sat waiting. Entered the wifi information, then the stick looked for updates...then updated.
Fifteen minutes later, I had to reenter the wifi info. Watched a short video about the stick, then got to play. I got onto the Netflix app and got logged in there, and updated my Prime music. Haven't watched anything on it yet, but it is working just like our PS3 does. (which is good, because I'm babying that thing along, hoping for Gamestop to do a double turn in amount on the system, so I can get $100-150 for it, and put that on a PS4).
The stick needs to be within a certain range of the tiny remote. Can't have the tv blocking the stick/remote connection (I had it plugged in behind the tv at first). Need to have an electric plug available, to plug the fire stick in.
The remote is tiny and I had to play with the batteries a bit to get it to work.
To get started, it tells you what button to push.
At some point you have to push the big button inside the top "circle" to really get going. That threw me for a minute---no directions to do it, the stick just sat waiting. Entered the wifi information, then the stick looked for updates...then updated.
Fifteen minutes later, I had to reenter the wifi info. Watched a short video about the stick, then got to play. I got onto the Netflix app and got logged in there, and updated my Prime music. Haven't watched anything on it yet, but it is working just like our PS3 does. (which is good, because I'm babying that thing along, hoping for Gamestop to do a double turn in amount on the system, so I can get $100-150 for it, and put that on a PS4).
laurafergie
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I got my Fire Stick yesterday. The only thing I had trouble with was opening the remote to put the batteries in, but my DD10 helped me there. 
My HDMI port is behind the TV and did not have any trouble with that and the remote. Plugged it in, it updated for a few minutes, watched the little video and easy peasey. I do not have Netflix anymore, but do have Prime, so listened to music and watched TV. I also entered my account info into Pandora, Crackle and PBS Kids and Video and all worked great. This was the best 19.99 spent ever. I wish I had gotten two.
My HDMI port is behind the TV and did not have any trouble with that and the remote. Plugged it in, it updated for a few minutes, watched the little video and easy peasey. I do not have Netflix anymore, but do have Prime, so listened to music and watched TV. I also entered my account info into Pandora, Crackle and PBS Kids and Video and all worked great. This was the best 19.99 spent ever. I wish I had gotten two.
I got my Fire Stick yesterday. The only thing I had trouble with was opening the remote to put the batteries in, but my DD10 helped me there.
My HDMI port is behind the TV and did not have any trouble with that and the remote. Plugged it in, it updated for a few minutes, watched the little video and easy peasey. I do not have Netflix anymore, but do have Prime, so listened to music and watched TV. I also entered my account info into Pandora, Crackle and PBS Kids and Video and all worked great. This was the best 19.99 spent ever. I wish I had gotten two.
Love mine too and am kicking myself that I did not order 2 when they were $19.99
lakelandgal70
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Ours came yesterday and hubby went right to work setting it up lol. Men and their toys. So far really like it much better than our old dvd player. Gonna play with it some more today but so far so good! Also hubby set up a screen saver to show pictures on our network. Thought that was pretty cool
disneymagicgirl
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wish I had ordered when they were $19. We didn't need one but of course now our smart tv apps are not working suddenly and we can't watch our prime shows in our bedroom. grrrrr
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