{"id":2727,"date":"2025-05-22T06:23:29","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T06:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oriccabattery.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=2727"},"modified":"2025-05-22T06:23:29","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T06:23:29","slug":"some-fire-tv-devices-are-about-to-lose-netflix-see-if-youre-affected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oriccabattery.co.uk\/Blog\/archives\/2727","title":{"rendered":"Some Fire TV devices are about to lose Netflix \u2014 see if you&#8217;re affected"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n\nYour Fire TV device might lose Netflix support soon<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/e4FGTaQ5FJAf7ZERcFEQPa.jpg\" alt=\"Amazon Fire TV Stick Lite\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(Image credit: Amazon)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fire TVstreaming devices are great. They&#8217;re consistently among thebest streaming devicesand come loaded with features and apps for all thebest streaming services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They&#8217;re so good that you might still use some old versions ofAmazon&#8217;s streaming devices. If you are, thenNetflixmight have bad news for you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In an email to select subscribers, Netflix announced that it was ending support for first-generation Fire TV streaming media players (h\/tHeise).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;According to our usage data,&#8221; the email begins, &#8220;you have used Netflix on a first-generation Fire TV streaming media player in the past 12 months. Netflix will discontinue support for these streaming media players on June 2, 2025.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Fire TV (2014)<\/li><li>Fire TV Stick (2014)<\/li><li>Fire TV Stick with Alexa Voice Remote (2016)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">First, let&#8217;s get into the bad news. If you have a first-generation Fire TV streaming box or a first-generation Fire TV Stick, including models with voice remotes, you&#8217;re going to lose the ability to watch Netflix starting June 2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/39rFCXFt7ydZ6SMV2SDRFn.jpg\" alt=\"A first-generation Fire TV Stick (2014)\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The good news is that these devices are<em>old<\/em>. They launched in 2014 and lost software and security update support from Amazon years ago (Amazon only guarantees support for devices for four years from their date of sale).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So chances are, you either aren&#8217;t using these devices anymore, or you had some idea this day could come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Unfortunately, if you are still using your first-gen Fire TV devices, there&#8217;s nothing you can do to avoid Netflix ending support for your version of its Fire TV OS app. You&#8217;ll need to buy a new streaming device if you want to keep watching Netflix.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That might be a blessing in disguise, though. Right now, every<em>new<\/em>Fire TV streaming stick is on sale, so there&#8217;s never been a better time to upgrade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To replace your old first-gen Fire TV, you could go with the Amazon Fire TV Stick HD.<strong>Right now, you can get it at Amazon for $19.99<\/strong>, which is 43% off the list price.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Fire TV Stick HD will give you everything you had with your first-generation Fire TV device and more, but if you&#8217;re looking for an upgrade, you could go with the Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K instead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Right now, you can get it at Amazon for $19.99<\/strong>, which is 40% off the list price.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Or get a serious upgrade and<strong>get the Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K Max for $39.99<\/strong>. It&#8217;s pricier, but it&#8217;s the Fire TV Stick I use and the one I recommend to anyone with a 4K TV.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe width=\"970\" height=\"150\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your Fire TV device might lose Netflix support soon (Image credit: Amazon) Fire TVstreaming devices are great. They&#8217;re consistently among thebest streaming devicesand come loaded with features and apps for all thebest streaming services. They&#8217;re so good that you might still use some old versions ofAmazon&#8217;s streaming devices. If you are, thenNetflixmight have bad news &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oriccabattery.co.uk\/Blog\/archives\/2727\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Some Fire TV devices are about to lose Netflix \u2014 see if you&#8217;re affected&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oriccabattery.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oriccabattery.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oriccabattery.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oriccabattery.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oriccabattery.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2727"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.oriccabattery.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2728,"href":"https:\/\/www.oriccabattery.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2727\/revisions\/2728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oriccabattery.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oriccabattery.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oriccabattery.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}