Your Fireplace TV dwelling display could 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 definately’re in all probability accustomed to Amazon altering the structure of the house display from time to time — typically a lot to the annoyance of its customers.

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

This new dwelling display 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 dwelling display structure, which is equivalent to the one seen being examined final 12 months. It would not seem that this new dwelling display has been rolled out extensively, which suggests Amazon is probably going once more testing it with a small group of customers.

Based on AFTV News, Amazon typically conducts small assessments like this to gauge person reactions, so it is potential it’s as soon as once more contemplating adopting this new structure for all customers. You may take a look at the unique Reddit put up beneath.

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

Together with your prime streaming providers moved decrease down, the navigation menu now has ample clean area to the appropriate, 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 button, search icon, stay TV, video games, and My Stuff (your watchlist, purchases, leases, and extra).

Person reactions to the Fireplace TV dwelling display structure are, thus far, fairly damaging, primarily based on responses on Reddit. One Redditor referred to as the design “dreadful” and mentioned that “the helpful stuff that you really want shouldn’t be 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 might really be form of okay with all of this if the apps row have been the highest row.” I agree with this, and I might be extra snug with this modification if it meant I did not need to navigate previous a row of content material I do not care about to achieve my prime streaming apps. This new dwelling display structure remains to be in testing, so it might not ever be rolled out extensively. Primarily based on person reactions on-line, Amazon would possibly need to contemplate taking this one again to the drafting board.

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