Prime Day 2020

[dlphg9]

Deberg bumped the 2018 Prime Day thread, but why not just make this year's Prime Day a thread of its own. **** Prime Day Megathreads!

Anyone gotten anything cool or have your eyes on anything cool?

[loochy]

bunch of crap i dont need


im not falling into prime day trap this year

[DaneMcCloud]

For some reason, I’d never paid any attention until this year.

I purchased an entire Ring system a few weeks ago that I’ve yet to install. Amazon has the Ring 3 Doorbell for $60 dollars less than I paid less than two weeks ago, so I called and had my money refunded.

Walmart started their deals yesterday morning and had a $199 dollar Ninja Blender for $59 dollars but by the time I saw the promotion at 5pm last evening, they were sold out.

There are some crazy cheap TV deals right now, too.

[luv]

Our TV is just old enough (2016) that it doesn't consistently like newer apps, so I got a Fire Stick for $20 off.

We have bluetooth headphones that you put around your neck and the ear buds come out and go in your ears. Since I can never get ear buds to stay in my ears, I never pull the ear buds out of it and turn the volume all the way up so I can faintly hear the music while I walk. While browsing, I found some bluetooth ear buds that have the hooks that goes over the ears for $14.99, so I thought I'd give them a shot.

Otherwise, nope. Nothing big.

[htismaqe]

Originally Posted by luv

Our TV is just old enough (2016) that it doesn't consistently like newer apps, so I got a Fire Stick for $20 off.

We have bluetooth headphones that you put around your neck and the ear buds come out and go in your ears. Since I can never get ear buds to stay in my ears, I never pull the ear buds out of it and turn the volume all the way up so I can faintly hear the music while I walk. While browsing, I found some bluetooth ear buds that have the hooks that goes over the ears for $14.99, so I thought I'd give them a shot.

Otherwise, nope. Nothing big.

I hope you like the Fire Stick. I threw ours in the trash. One of the worst "tech gadgets" I've ever owned.

[Lzen]

Originally Posted by htismaqe

I hope you like the Fire Stick. I threw ours in the trash. One of the worst "tech gadgets" I've ever owned.

I have one in our basement tv. It's ok, I guess. I much prefer the Rokus in our other TVs, though.

[htismaqe]

Originally Posted by Lzen

I have one in our basement tv. It's ok, I guess. I much prefer the Rokus in our other TVs, though.

Ours was slow as hell. Sometimes it would take 15-20 seconds just for a button press to register and navigating from one app to another took forever compared to our other smart devices, even my ancient VIA-based Vizio TV.

The deal-breaker though was Netflix. My mother-in-law used the Fire Stick and she's a Netflix binger. About once a week, the Netflix app would great her with the login screen but entering the username and password would just cause the app to freeze.

I had to go into the app settings, clear the cache data manually, and then log her back in.

ONCE A WEEK. Sometimes more often than that.

[Lzen]

Originally Posted by htismaqe

Ours was slow as hell. Sometimes it would take 15-20 seconds just for a button press to register and navigating from one app to another took forever compared to our other smart devices, even my ancient VIA-based Vizio TV.

The deal-breaker though was Netflix. My mother-in-law used the Fire Stick and she's a Netflix binger. About once a week, the Netflix app would great her with the login screen but entering the username and password would just cause the app to freeze.

I had to go into the app settings, clear the cache data manually, and then log her back in.

ONCE A WEEK. Sometimes more often than that.

Ah, I see. Well, I've never had those issues, though I can't say I've ever used it for anything other than Youtube TV. I'll have to ask my daughter if she has used it for other things and if she's experienced problems.

[Sorce]

Originally Posted by htismaqe

Ours was slow as hell. Sometimes it would take 15-20 seconds just for a button press to register and navigating from one app to another took forever compared to our other smart devices, even my ancient VIA-based Vizio TV.

The deal-breaker though was Netflix. My mother-in-law used the Fire Stick and she's a Netflix binger. About once a week, the Netflix app would great her with the login screen but entering the username and password would just cause the app to freeze.

I had to go into the app settings, clear the cache data manually, and then log her back in.

ONCE A WEEK. Sometimes more often than that.

That was my experience as well, had a 1st gen fire stick so maybe they have improved. Now I have roku's on all my TVs and the work great.

[redfan]

Originally Posted by htismaqe

...firestick issues
ONCE A WEEK. Sometimes more often than that.

I def would've trashed ours long ago if this were the case. As it is, we've ran all of our apps through the stick (hooked to a no-smarty tv) and have never had any issues.

[morphius]

Originally Posted by htismaqe

Ours was slow as hell. Sometimes it would take 15-20 seconds just for a button press to register and navigating from one app to another took forever compared to our other smart devices, even my ancient VIA-based Vizio TV.

The deal-breaker though was Netflix. My mother-in-law used the Fire Stick and she's a Netflix binger. About once a week, the Netflix app would great her with the login screen but entering the username and password would just cause the app to freeze.

I had to go into the app settings, clear the cache data manually, and then log her back in.

ONCE A WEEK. Sometimes more often than that.

I haven't had that problem at all, every once in a while I will have to bounce it, but it has been pretty solid for a few years I've been using ours. Disney and CW are a bit slow on it, but netflix and everything else work fine.

[Deberg_1990]

Originally Posted by htismaqe

I hope you like the Fire Stick. I threw ours in the trash. One of the worst "tech gadgets" I've ever owned.

I’ve never owned one of those. I like the Rokus and Apple TV’s a lot though.

[htismaqe]

Originally Posted by Deberg_1990

I’ve never owned one of those. I like the Rokus and Apple TV’s a lot though.

Me too.

I've had just quite a few different device platforms - Native Samsung/LG/Vizio, standalone Android, Roku, and Apple TV.

The only one arguably worse than the Fire Stick for me was the standalone Android and it was a $10 Chinese brick that just wasn't executed well.

[DaFace]

Originally Posted by htismaqe

Me too.

I've had just quite a few different device platforms - Native Samsung/LG/Vizio, standalone Android, Roku, and Apple TV.

The only one arguably worse than the Fire Stick for me was the standalone Android and it was a $10 Chinese brick that just wasn't executed well.

I'm a big fan of the new Chromecast fwiw. The biggest thing is that it puts content first and "apps" second. For example, you have one cohesive watchlist of all the stuff you want to watch regardless of where you can watch it. If a show then moves providers, it'll still be on your watch list - just linked to the new service. It's super nice to not have to use JustWatch or whatever to track things down.

[BWillie]

Originally Posted by Deberg_1990

I’ve never owned one of those. I like the Rokus and Apple TV’s a lot though.

My Roku is the shit. So easy to use. Great interface. I'm thinking about just totally getting rid of Direct TV and use YouTube TV so I can just use one device and never have to go back from HDMI 1 HDMI 2 etc.