I was excited to get the New Fire TV 4K Cube 3rd Gen, but this upgrade was more hype than substance. Watch our video and we'll show you what this Fire Cube IS, and tell you what it SHOULD'VE been.
And SPOILER ALERT: If you’re still rocking a Gen 2 Fire Cube, you may want to hang on to it.
The Gen 3 is better, (on paper) but while using it, although the menus and buffering were snappier than the Fire Sticks, it wasn't noticeably different than the Gen 2 Cube. When it came to the "up-scaling", I found it to be brighter and have a yellow(ish) tint, so I turned it off. I like movies to be in rich color, but have dark blacks, not gray black like this feature was delivering. Full disclosure, your mileage may very, but I wasn't a fan. I do like the 16Gb of storage, but that's the same size as the Fire TV 4K Cube 2nd Gen.
The HDMI was nice and I like that I can put my AppleTV, or Xbox through the pass-through, and only occupy (1) HDMI Port, but that's not a deal breaker. The Ethernet is only 10/100, (not a Gigabit like the Apple TV and NVIDIA Shield have had for years). And the USB isn't even 3.0, it's USB 2.0, and only takes USB sticks in FAT 32, (unless you side-load a special app to play media). The USB for a Web Camera was nice, but buggy. I can see my brother on Drop-Ins, and he can hear me, but I couldn't hear him. And Amazon tech support was no help in trying to troubleshoot this issue. After troubleshooting ourselves, Rennie said, "Just tell it to route all audio to the Cube" and that seemed to work, (like 4 out of the 7 tests we did). I'm hoping this is something Amazon can fix in a future update, and I did call them back and share what we found, so they could pass it on to their development team. But it's not ready for Prime Time, and isn't replacing my Echo Shows anytime soon.
So, did you get yourself a Fire TV 4K Cube 3rd Gen? If so, let us know in the comments if you think it's worth the hype. Or are you holding out for the Voice Remote Pro, to upgrade your existing Fire Stick or Fire TV Cube 2nd Gen? Let us know that as well.
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TIME CODES FOR THIS VIDEO
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[00:02] INTRO
[00:06] SPLASH SCREEN
[00:17] FIRE TV 4K CUBE 3RD GEN
[00:42] UNBOXING
[01:33] First Look at the Gen 3 beside Gen 2
[01:56] Let's talk about Ports
[02:57] What's up with the new packaging?
[04:48] FIRE TV 4K CUBE 2ND GEN VS 3RD GEN
[07:06] Tommy's Take
[08:45] Tommy's Pro Tips
[09:16] FINAL THOUGHTS
[10:45] OUTTAKES
[11:40] OUTRO
[11:50] SOCIALS
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