Amazon's New Fire TV Stick Gives You 4K Streaming For Almost $100 Less Than Apple TV 4K

Ahead of its October Prime Big Deal Days, Amazon has announced its latest streaming device, the Fire TV Stick 4K Select . The new 4K Ultra HD streaming stick will be priced at $39.99, which is a good $90 less than the 3rd generation Apple TV 4K 's cheapest model. It's now available for pre-order and starts shipping on October 15th. It's part of a broader Fire TV lineup refresh announced at Amazon's product-centric event on September 30th. It arrives along with redesigned Fire TV Omni QLED televisions and upgraded Alexa+ software.

Right off the bat, this new 4K Select comes at a cheaper starting price than the standard 4K stick (typically $49.99, though currently on sale for $24.99) or the 4K Max stick (usually set at $59.99, but on sale now for $39.99). That technically makes the Fire TV Stick 4K Select the most affordable 4K streaming device at launch, but if you can't wait a couple of weeks, you can get the 4K stick or the 4K Max on sale right now for the same price or cheaper.

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Digging into the specs for the Fire TV Stick 4K Select

The new 4K Select supports HDR10, HDR10+, and HLG and is powered by Vega, Amazon's new smart TV operating system. With this, it supports fast app launching, cloud gaming services like Xbox Gaming and Luna, and Alexa+ voice integration.

Worth noting before you buy an Amazon Fire TV Stick : It only has 1 GB of memory compared to 2 GB for the Fire TV Stick 4K and 4K Max, and only supports up to Wi-Fi 5. (The 4K and 4K Max support up to Wi-Fi 6 and 6E, respectively.) You get the same amount of storage as the base 4K model — 8 GB — which is less than the 4K Max's 16 GB. Live view picture-in-picture from the 4K and 4K Max models is also unavailable, as is Dolby Atmos audio.

At first glance, the Fire TV Stick 4K Select looks an awful lot like a 4K version of the Fire TV Stick HD. The Stick HD can't support Xbox Game Pass and can't give you 4K Ultra HD picture quality, nor will it work with Alexa+, but the fact remains: the two have the same supported video and audio formats, the same remote, the same amount of storage and memory, and the same Wi-Fi support.

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