Amazon Fire TV 43-inch Omni QLED series 4K | UHD smart TV, Dolby Vision IQ, hands free with Alexa

I've had this tv for about a month now and have used it mostly for viewing Internet services. I am familiar with the amazon fire tv experience having previously had fire tv sticks for my 40 inch panasonic viera and 24 inch Sony bravia. I like the experience of fire tv and its was a big reason why I choose to buy this television. Its easy to operate and find the app you want such as prime tv and Disney etc. The picture quality is great and has the latest dolby vision. The sound from the internal speakers is OK and is better than my previous panasonic however I have attached my pioneer av receiver to it via hdmi arc so I dont use the internal speakers. I have had no problems with the synchronisation between picture and spoken sound on the av reciever. It's easy to set up the remote to operate your av equipment etc.The only problem I can really point out is what other reviewers have pointed out is that using the terrestrial tv guide is a bit slow. It takes what seems like an age to bring up your the tv guide however once you have been using the guide and channel swapping it speeds up a bit. I have noticed that while scrolling down through the tv channels four at a time speeds things up rather than one a time and waiting for each one to load.I am overall very pleased with the television the internet services and fire tv experience is great and unless you are a big terrestrial tv person I think you will be very pleased with the product if you decide to purchase it.Addition to review December 2024.This was a great TV for the price I paid. However amazon have it for sale at the moment and in the description its says newest gen. This is correct however they have not released a 2024 version which would include the freely app. This version 'newest gen' is not compatible with freely. Be absolutely certain about the model you are buying as this generation of the amazon qled 'The first version' does not support the UK freely app.

I bought the 50 inch version for £380 as a prime day offer. I'm very pleased with the picture, it's not up there with the very top end tvs but it's still very nice, and given the price I paid it's extremely good value. The sound is very good too with quite a bit more more bass than my previous tv. I'm not sure where the speaakers are located but they have done a very good job as it sounds like the sound is coming from behind the screen.I do find it slightly sluggish when navigating around the home screen and within the apps. It's perfectly usable and most people would find it perfectly acceptable, but it's quite as zippy as the fire tv cube I had before was.The Freeview implementation is a bit of a mixed bag. It's very nicely integrated with the home screen, there are tiles showing what's on each channel and when you highlight the tile what's on the channel starts showing. On the downside it can be quite slow, the guide can take a while to populate and it can take 4 or 5 seconds from selecting the programme to it appearing, although it does seem to speed up when you having been using it for a while. That's not a problem for me as I use apps virtually all the time and freeview very rarely, and I'd imagine that to be the case for most people these days.Alexa is built in which means it integrates with other Amazon products with no setup required. If someone presses your ring doorbell for example you get a view of the camera in the top right.I wasn't sure whether to rate it 4 or 5. For the price I paid it's definitely a 5 star product, for the higher prices it's been at since I'd say the responsiveness brings the score down a bit. 4.5 would be more appropriaite than the four I gave but that option isn't available.

I wanted to get a new tv & wanted to get this one for a while & i’m glad i did, its a great tv, good sound, good graphics, hands free so don't need to touch remote, alexa is responsive and works well, overall I think it’s a superb tv & I’m really glad I bought it, I will also be getting the voice remote pro to go with it shortly, this 4k fire tv is highly recommended from me

This tv is rubbish, the picture is ok but according to other reveiw other brands leave this behind for the same price point. It's really sluggish and sometimes you can be sat there for minutes while you wait for the tv to do what you asked it to do. The remote is super sensitive so a slight knock and your telly is stuck opening some other app and what ever you set up to watch has gone. You have to re start it find the place where you left off, this super annoying buy the tv and find out. And lastly the thing that drive me absolutely bonkers is keeps switching off, and you can't disable this feature either. Amazon keep removing reviews that mention this flaw because that is what it is. So one minute you pause what you are watching and go flick the kettle on by the time you come back tv off and you have to restart the app you are watching and watch ads etc just to get back to the place you were at. Toilet breaks same problem, take a phone call pause your tv and your sat in the dark because your tv decided to turn itself off. So you can't watch this tv without ambient lighting on because you never know when your TV is going switch itself off and leave you in the dark. Definitely dangerous if you ask me.