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dahliaclone

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We have an Amazon Fire Stick on our main living room tv and love it. Our bedroom tv used to have a Chromecast but it was their first iteration and it's since went kaput.

If we get a second Fire Stick for the bedroom tv, can we sync that to the same account as the other Amazon Fire Stick in the living room? Will there be issues if there are two Fire Sticks on the same account being used at the same time? Can we have both TVs on the same platform (Hulu, Netflix, YouTube TV, etc) but on different channels?

These are probably easy answers but I am not tech-y with this stuff so any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
 
We have a firebox in our living room and a fire stick in our bedroom. Kids have an Xbox down stairs and a PlayStation. They are all synced together.
 
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We have two. No issues. You can sign into both with the same account. Only limitation is in your streaming service number of streams.
 
You should be able to have the same Amazon account on both sticks. YouTubeTV you should be able to stream at the same time (you can have up to 5 or 6 “accounts” on the same subscription). Same with Hulu I believe. Netflix is a no unless they changed in the last few years.
 
GMackey32 said:
You should be able to have the same Amazon account on both sticks. YouTubeTV you should be able to stream at the same time (you can have up to 5 or 6 “accounts” on the same subscription). Same with Hulu I believe. Netflix is a no unless they changed in the last few years.
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Hulu is dependent on what package you have. Our son uses our accounts at college for Hulu and Netflix’s. I have had an issue when I wanted to watch it and the kids were watching it on laptops or iPads in their rooms and I believe the oldest went to his girlfriend’s and they watched something there. I watched Netflix then.
 
dahliaclone said:
We have an Amazon Fire Stick on our main living room tv and love it. Our bedroom tv used to have a Chromecast but it was their first iteration and it's since went kaput.

If we get a second Fire Stick for the bedroom tv, can we sync that to the same account as the other Amazon Fire Stick in the living room? Will there be issues if there are two Fire Sticks on the same account being used at the same time? Can we have both TVs on the same platform (Hulu, Netflix, YouTube TV, etc) but on different channels?

These are probably easy answers but I am not tech-y with this stuff so any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
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I have 2 firesticks and a Roku stick. All running the same stuff. Most of the apps like Hulu limit the number of devices or locations you can use the app. Hulu Live especially will limit networks. You only get to change the network on your account 4 times a year. I found this out when I bought a new router and had to use one of my changes. This limitation does not carry over to the Hulu app on mobile devices, just the sticks.
 
My roku stick and roku ultra blow away the fire stick my other family members have.

My favorite part is the headphone jack. I can watch a loud action movie without waking my sleeping wife or baby when they are in the same room
 
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cyfan92 said:
My roku stick and roku ultra blow away the fire stick my other family members have.

My favorite part is the headphone jack. I can watch a loud action movie without waking my sleeping wife or baby when they are in the same room
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I've got a couple Firestick 4ks and they work well. Certainly no lag during operation. The nice part is I can pair them with my bluetooth headphones which lets me watch content without disturbing anyone.
 
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cyfan92 said:
My roku stick and roku ultra blow away the fire stick my other family members have.

My favorite part is the headphone jack. I can watch a loud action movie without waking my sleeping wife or baby when they are in the same room
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Agreed. We've been exclusively a Roku family until a couple months ago when Amazon had the Fire Stick on sale and I decided to try one. It works fine, but Roku is vastly superior. I hate there's no bandwidth saver that will automatically shut off after a period of time. If you leave it on it will run forever. Also, the Fire Stick seems to not be able to remember where I left off in a show. I'll click on it to resume and it will start an episode like 10 episodes back. Ridiculous.
 
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cyfan92 said:
My roku stick and roku ultra blow away the fire stick my other family members have.

My favorite part is the headphone jack. I can watch a loud action movie without waking my sleeping wife or baby when they are in the same room
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I like the Roku better. The only issue I have is for whatever reason there is an audio delay when streaming with the Roku occasionally. It happens across all apps. Resetting the Roku fixes it, but its annoying to do after you've started watching something and realize the audio is slightly behind whats happening on screen. If it wasn't for that issue, I would agree the Roku is way better than the firestick.
 
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Im another one that likes the Roku a million times better. We started the streaming thing with two FireTVs and a FireTV stick. Now that we’ve added a couple TVs with Roku built in, I’m ready to just toss the FireTVs and buy Rokus for the other three TVs as well.

The FireTV boxes do work significantly better than the FireTV stick though.
 
NorthCyd said:
I like the Roku better. The only issue I have is for whatever reason there is an audio delay when streaming with the Roku occasionally. It happens across all apps. Resetting the Roku fixes it, but its annoying to do after you've started watching something and realize the audio is slightly behind whats happening on screen. If it wasn't for that issue, I would agree the Roku is way better than the firestick.
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Never had that issue. Could it be ISP related?
 
ruxCYtable said:
Agreed. We've been exclusively a Roku family until a couple months ago when Amazon had the Fire Stick on sale and I decided to try one. It works fine, but Roku is vastly superior. I hate there's no bandwidth saver that will automatically shut off after a period of time. If you leave it on it will run forever. Also, the Fire Stick seems to not be able to remember where I left off in a show. I'll click on it to resume and it will start an episode like 10 episodes back. Ridiculous.
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I had the complete opposite experience. We had Roku first and hated it. Love the Fire Stick. But I do have family that really like the Roku a lot
 
ruxCYtable said:
Never had that issue. Could it be ISP related?
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Maybe, but it never happens on the firesticks. I searched it and I'm not the only one with the issue. I tried some of the recommended solutions but nothing seems to work.
 
ruxCYtable said:
Never had that issue. Could it be ISP related?
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I'm in the same camp as the folks who prefer the Roku over the Fire, but I also have had the audio issue mentioned. It hasn't happened in a long time so it may have been updated.

If it weren't for the ability to side load the Fire, I wouldn't even own one. The Roku is a much better product with native software installed.
 
When people are saying they 'sync', that is not entirely true. You have multiple devices using the same login. No problem. But you will need to install the apps you want to use on each one and login on each one. The streams will not be 'in sync' either. My LR firestick is within earshot of our kitchen/dining room firetv. They are a second or two off and it can be very annoying. Other than that, we love firetv.
 
ruxCYtable said:
Agreed. We've been exclusively a Roku family until a couple months ago when Amazon had the Fire Stick on sale and I decided to try one. It works fine, but Roku is vastly superior. I hate there's no bandwidth saver that will automatically shut off after a period of time. If you leave it on it will run forever. Also, the Fire Stick seems to not be able to remember where I left off in a show. I'll click on it to resume and it will start an episode like 10 episodes back. Ridiculous.
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Neither of these are true.
 
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ruxCYtable said:
Yep. They are. There is NOT a bandwidth saver option on the Fire Stick. If there is, tell me where.

Mine NEVER starts on the same episode I left off. Ever. And I have two of them that do the same thing.
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What application? Amazon? Or Netflix, or something else?
 
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