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Question About Fire Stick To Watch Apple TV

NickNack — Mon, 29 Jun 2020 16:21:02 GMT

When I bought my new iPhone recently it came with a free year of Apple TV. There are shows I'd like to watch on it but don't enjoy watching TV on my laptop.

I just ordered an Amazon Fire Stick so that I can watch Apple TV. Am I correct in thinking that I just connect it to my TV and can watch it without unhooking my Comcast Cable box (on one TV) or Tivo box (on another TV)? I'll do without it if I have to do anything like that. I'm not very electronics savvy.

Re: Question About Fire Stick To Watch Apple TV

Mz iMac — Mon, 29 Jun 2020 16:23:45 GMT

@NickNack Yes, you are correct.

I have a FS plus Verizon FIOS.

Re: Question About Fire Stick To Watch Apple TV

NickNack — Mon, 29 Jun 2020 16:25:39 GMT

Thank you @Mz iMac !

Re: Question About Fire Stick To Watch Apple TV

Jordan2 — Mon, 29 Jun 2020 21:23:31 GMT

@NickNack wrote:
When I bought my new iPhone recently it came with a free year of Apple TV. There are shows I'd like to watch on it but don't enjoy watching TV on my laptop.

I just ordered an Amazon Fire Stick so that I can watch Apple TV. Am I correct in thinking that I just connect it to my TV and can watch it without unhooking my Comcast Cable box (on one TV) or Tivo box (on another TV)? I'll do without it if I have to do anything like that. I'm not very electronics savvy.

I have both a Firestick and a Roku. You do have to set up the Firestick, but you just follow the on screen prompts, if I can do it anyone can! I have HBO through Verizon Fios and therefore entitled to HBO Max. For whatever reason Roku and Amazon do not have agreements for the HBO Max app so you can't see it on those devices. If you have an Apple or Android product you can.

Re: Question About Fire Stick To Watch Apple TV

Reever — Tue, 30 Jun 2020 02:49:19 GMT

@NickNack wrote:
When I bought my new iPhone recently it came with a free year of Apple TV. There are shows I'd like to watch on it but don't enjoy watching TV on my laptop.

I just ordered an Amazon Fire Stick so that I can watch Apple TV. Am I correct in thinking that I just connect it to my TV and can watch it without unhooking my Comcast Cable box (on one TV) or Tivo box (on another TV)? I'll do without it if I have to do anything like that. I'm not very electronics savvy.

In my opinion nobody needs these "sticks" that I keep reading about. Nothing wrong at all with Cable TV. I have subscribed since 1968 and will continue to watch my Tv using mainstream methods. The modern devices are too confusing, too complex and not worth the hassle.

Re: Question About Fire Stick To Watch Apple TV

glb613 — Tue, 30 Jun 2020 16:16:48 GMT

@Reever wrote:
@NickNack wrote:
When I bought my new iPhone recently it came with a free year of Apple TV. There are shows I'd like to watch on it but don't enjoy watching TV on my laptop.

I just ordered an Amazon Fire Stick so that I can watch Apple TV. Am I correct in thinking that I just connect it to my TV and can watch it without unhooking my Comcast Cable box (on one TV) or Tivo box (on another TV)? I'll do without it if I have to do anything like that. I'm not very electronics savvy.

In my opinion nobody needs these "sticks" that I keep reading about. Nothing wrong at all with Cable TV. I have subscribed since 1968 and will continue to watch my Tv using mainstream methods. The modern devices are too confusing, too complex and not worth the hassle.

They are not too confusing, too complex or worth the hassle. I stream because there isn't any decent programing on cable. Learn new things and keep up or you'll be left in the dust is my motto.

Re: Question About Fire Stick To Watch Apple TV

NickNack — Tue, 30 Jun 2020 12:25:09 GMT

@Reever wrote:
@NickNack wrote:
When I bought my new iPhone recently it came with a free year of Apple TV. There are shows I'd like to watch on it but don't enjoy watching TV on my laptop.

I just ordered an Amazon Fire Stick so that I can watch Apple TV. Am I correct in thinking that I just connect it to my TV and can watch it without unhooking my Comcast Cable box (on one TV) or Tivo box (on another TV)? I'll do without it if I have to do anything like that. I'm not very electronics savvy.

In my opinion nobody needs these "sticks" that I keep reading about. Nothing wrong at all with Cable TV. I have subscribed since 1968 and will continue to watch my Tv using mainstream methods. The modern devices are too confusing, too complex and not worth the hassle.

@Reever I prefer to try to keep up with the times.

Re: Question About Fire Stick To Watch Apple TV

FrostyBabe1 — Tue, 30 Jun 2020 20:04:45 GMT

@Reever wrote:
@NickNack wrote:
When I bought my new iPhone recently it came with a free year of Apple TV. There are shows I'd like to watch on it but don't enjoy watching TV on my laptop.

I just ordered an Amazon Fire Stick so that I can watch Apple TV. Am I correct in thinking that I just connect it to my TV and can watch it without unhooking my Comcast Cable box (on one TV) or Tivo box (on another TV)? I'll do without it if I have to do anything like that. I'm not very electronics savvy.

In my opinion nobody needs these "sticks" that I keep reading about. Nothing wrong at all with Cable TV. I have subscribed since 1968 and will continue to watch my Tv using mainstream methods. The modern devices are too confusing, too complex and not worth the hassle.

Oh yes, they're just horribly, horribly confusing. NOT!

From out of the box to watching a movie, it took me all of 10 minutes, if that, to install my Fire Stick.

I prefer to live in this century.

Re: Question About Fire Stick To Watch Apple TV

gardenman — Wed, 01 Jul 2020 10:47:36 GMT

And cable TV has evolved a lot since 1968. Back then cable TV was typically a single coax fed from an antenna farm and you used the TV tuner to select channels (a max of 12 channels.) A while later a dual coax system came along with an A/B switch that still used the TV tuner but essentially doubled your channels by switching from A to B. Then came the first analog cable boxes which upped the channels you could get to around fifty or so, up from the 24. Then came the first digital cable boxes that offered a hundred channels, and now modern cable boxes can get a thousand or more channels and also stream through them.

The streaming devices are no more complicated than a modern cable box and in most cases are easier to use with fewer buttons and everything prompted onscreen. You barely even have to look at the remote for most streaming devices. Just plop your finger atop the left/right/up/down buttons to navigate to what you want to see then press the enter button, typically in the middle of the other four, and you're watching it. My old cable remote had almost a hundred buttons on it and remembering channel numbers, or finding the right button to activate the channel guide was a pain. The voice select option was often hopeless and channels like NBC, MSNBC, NBC Sports, etc. all sound enough alike that getting the right one could take several tries.