Amazon Fire TV 55-inch Omni QLED series 4K | UHD smart TV, Dolby Vision IQ, local dimming, 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

I bought this TV in the black Friday sale a year ago so it seemed like great value to upgrade from my 50" to 55". I was so excited and when I got it set up I was so excited. It was my step away from sky TV and into only streaming services. So I'll start with the positives because it won't take me long.The picture quality is good and sound from the TV itself is decent, not great, but good enough.It didn't take long before the problems started though. First I noticed how everything was so slow. Changing between apps seems to take ages and using terrestrial TV takes minutes for every command.The menu system is fairly intuitive but a bit clunky.I have it connected to my PS5 and using voice command to switch over HDMI inputs is nice but it often mishears me.I decided to buy a couple of amazon speakers as it made sense to keep it within the same ecosystem. Then the real problems started. It made more mistakes - opening the wrong app or carrying out the wrong function like playing the news when I tried to change the volume, the sound would randomly drop out (especially when using my PS5) and I learned that I had to start Netflix and play something for the sound to come back on.The Internet connection randomly drops out and I have to restart the TV to get it back on or sometimes pressure the physical power button on the TV to turn it on and connect to the network. I've had to factory reset it 4 times to solve other issues and force it to get updates - none of which helped the underlying issues.This TV has made relaxing harder work than my old TV and I'm now back with sky TV because watching something on it has become such hard work.My expensive 'smart' TV has become a dumb TV that I use more competent systems on and I'll be changing it as soon as finances allow.Please don't buy this TV.