{"id":306191,"date":"2025-10-15T19:59:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T19:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/306191\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T19:59:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T19:59:10","slug":"amazons-fire-tv-stick-4k-is-now-the-4k-plus-which-is-still-confusing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/306191\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon\u2019s Fire TV Stick 4K is now the 4K Plus, which is still confusing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Sure, the original name was confusing (is 4K better or worse than 4K Select?), but a mere name change in a lineup of four identical gadgets isn\u2019t enough. It assumes you\u2019re willing to do the mental gymnastics of recalling where other \u201cPlus\u201d products sit in their respective lineups, and what that might mean for this device\u2019s capabilities. It doesn\u2019t solve Amazon\u2019s biggest problem, which is that it still sells three 4K-ready sticks within $10 of each other. Without a legible strategy, it probably shouldn\u2019t have introduced the 4K Select in the first place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">The differences between Amazon\u2019s 4K-ready Fire TV Sticks are small. The 4K Select includes half the RAM of the 4K Plus and the 4K Max, meaning it\u2019ll almost certainly be slower to navigate between menus and jump into apps. I haven\u2019t tested it out, but I don\u2019t think there\u2019s a good reason to buy it currently, or ever, especially during the many times that the pricier 4K models are discounted throughout the year. Right now, you can buy the superior 4K Max for $34.99 with a coupon code.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">It should go without saying that there is absolutely no reason for any current or previous Fire TV Stick 4K owners to get this new one, as packaging aside, nothing else has changed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sure, the original name was confusing (is 4K better or worse than 4K Select?), but a mere name&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":306192,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2431,171,50,6584,242,158,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-306191","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-amazon","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-streaming","12":"tag-tech","13":"tag-technology","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115379959530824090","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}