Your Fireplace TV house display screen might change quickly, and never everybody’s a fan

If you happen to’ve been utilizing a Fire TV system for some time, like a Fire TV Stick, then you definitely’re in all probability accustomed to Amazon altering the structure of the house display screen on occasion — typically a lot to the annoyance of its customers.

Late final 12 months, Amazon started testing a brand new house display screen structure with a small subset of customers, which modified the navigation bar, eradicating your most visited streaming apps from it and inserting them additional down the house display screen as a substitute (through AFTV News). This might make it a bit of extra sophisticated to get to your favourite streaming apps rapidly.

This new house display screen structure was first seen in November of final 12 months, and never a lot has been heard about it since — till now. A Redditor recently posted about their first-generation Fireplace TV Stick 4K receiving a brand new house display screen structure, which is equivalent to the one seen being examined final 12 months. It would not seem that this new house display screen has been rolled out extensively, which implies Amazon is probably going once more testing it with a small group of customers.

Based on AFTV News, Amazon usually conducts small exams like this to gauge consumer reactions, so it is potential it’s as soon as once more contemplating adopting this new structure for all customers. You may try the unique Reddit publish beneath.

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With this new house display screen replace, your high streaming apps are moved from the higher navigation menu to a decrease place on the house display screen, previous a row of advised content material (as seen within the picture above).

Along with your high streaming companies moved decrease down, the navigation menu now has ample clean house to the fitting, suggesting Amazon might have plans so as to add extra navigation shortcuts, or worse, extra advertisements. At present, the navigation bar consists of the house display screen button, search icon, dwell TV, video games, and My Stuff (your watchlist, purchases, leases, and extra).

Person reactions to the Fireplace TV house display screen structure are, up to now, fairly destructive, primarily based on responses on Reddit. One Redditor known as the design “dreadful” and stated that “the helpful stuff that you really want just isn’t barely seen in comparison with all of the suggestions that are simply de facto ads.” One other Redditor referred to the replace as making the Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K the “Amazon Commercial Stick 4K.”

One other Reddit remark I noticed states, “I’d really be form of okay with all of this if the apps row have been the highest row.” I agree with this, and I’d be extra snug with this variation if it meant I did not should navigate previous a row of content material I do not care about to succeed in my high streaming apps. This new house display screen structure continues to be in testing, so it might not ever be rolled out extensively. Based mostly on consumer reactions on-line, Amazon may need to contemplate taking this one again to the drafting board.

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