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Amazon “Fire TV” remotes - DESIGNED to be thrown away!

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Martin Miranda:
what is designed to be thrown away?
ultrasonic welded plastic...
now i understand.  :-\

duckduck:

--- Quote from: MrMobodies on January 06, 2022, 06:19:26 am ---<SNIP>

I have never known a remote to stop working ever.

</SNIP>

--- End quote ---

I have repaired our Roku remote about 4 times before finally buying a replacement, and we just got a new remote for our cable box to replace the failed one.

Now, the problem of the young child spiking the remote like an angry footballer when asked to turn off the TV certainly points to some parenting issues...

EDIT:

That's a shame about the Fire remote. I'm sure that Amazon sells their hardware at a discount (using the disposable-razor-blade sales model). I was pleasantly surprised to find that replacement (3rd party) remotes for the Roku were only USD7 or so. Shenzhen FTW!

CJay:
Stuff the repairability, what's the chipset in there, can it be hacked and repurposed?

eti:

--- Quote from: duckduck on January 11, 2022, 07:38:40 pm ---
--- Quote from: MrMobodies on January 06, 2022, 06:19:26 am ---<SNIP>

I have never known a remote to stop working ever.

</SNIP>

--- End quote ---

I have repaired our Roku remote about 4 times before finally buying a replacement, and we just got a new remote for our cable box to replace the failed one.

Now, the problem of the young child spiking the remote like an angry footballer when asked to turn off the TV certainly points to some parenting issues...

EDIT:

That's a shame about the Fire remote. I'm sure that Amazon sells their hardware at a discount (using the disposable-razor-blade sales model). I was pleasantly surprised to find that replacement (3rd party) remotes for the Roku were only USD7 or so. Shenzhen FTW!

--- End quote ---

Oh... Ohhh yesss... I'd forgotten ALL about my Roku 4 remote and it's flimsy side-mounted tactile buttons which broke off... that's another one.

Gyro:

--- Quote from: Sal Ammoniac on January 10, 2022, 10:41:19 pm ---Forget the remotes... Amazon Fire TV devices themselves are designed to be thrown away!

This is how it works: Amazon designs and sells a Fire TV device, like the Cube. It mostly works fine and the UI is responsive. They then come out with a series of newer models with updated, faster CPUs and more RAM. They add new features to the software that takes advantage of the increased CPU power and additional RAM... But now the older devices run like dogs and the UI is slow and laggy and nearly unusable. The only viable solution is to upgrade to the latest Fire TV device.

Rather than continuing on the Fire TV treadmill, I've switched to a Nvidia Shield TV Pro. Hopefully it won't have the planned obsolescence issue Fire TV does.

--- End quote ---

That's a hell of a lot better than the experience with the White NowTV boxes (subsidised Roku LT boxes) in the UK. They could be used with the main free UK streaming services but NowTV decided that they were no longer up to the job and stopped supporting them. Of course their last firmware update was used to disable the ability to enter developer mode by a remote button sequence, preventing them from being converted into a Plex media server or something else vaguely useful.

Power them up now and the just sit there like dumb bricks, displaying on the TV screen a message that they are no longer supported . Premeditated e-waste creation!

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