Your Hearth TV house display screen might change quickly, and never everybody’s a fan

Should you’ve been utilizing a Fire TV gadget for some time, like a Fire TV Stick, you then’re in all probability accustomed to Amazon altering the structure of the house display screen from time to time — typically a lot to the annoyance of its customers.

Late final yr, Amazon started testing a brand new house display screen structure with a small subset of customers, which modified the navigation bar, eradicating your most visited streaming apps from it and inserting them additional down the house display screen as a substitute (through AFTV News). This could make it just a little extra difficult to get to your favourite streaming apps shortly.

This new house display screen structure was first seen in November of final yr, and never a lot has been heard about it since — till now. A Redditor recently posted about their first-generation Hearth TV Stick 4K receiving a brand new house display screen structure, which is similar to the one seen being examined final yr. It does not seem that this new house display screen has been rolled out broadly, which suggests Amazon is probably going once more testing it with a small group of customers.

In response to AFTV News, Amazon usually conducts small checks like this to gauge person reactions, so it is attainable it’s as soon as once more contemplating adopting this new structure for all customers. You possibly can try the unique Reddit publish under.

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With this new house display screen replace, your prime streaming apps are moved from the higher navigation menu to a decrease place on the house display screen, previous a row of prompt content material (as seen within the picture above).

Together with your prime streaming providers moved decrease down, the navigation menu now has ample clean house to the appropriate, suggesting Amazon might have plans so as to add extra navigation shortcuts, or worse, extra adverts. At the moment, the navigation bar consists of the house display screen button, search icon, dwell TV, video games, and My Stuff (your watchlist, purchases, leases, and extra).

Consumer reactions to the Hearth TV house display screen structure are, up to now, fairly damaging, based mostly on responses on Reddit. One Redditor referred to as the design “dreadful” and stated that “the helpful stuff that you really want shouldn’t be barely seen in comparison with all of the suggestions that are simply de facto commercials.” One other Redditor referred to the replace as making the Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K the “Amazon Commercial Stick 4K.”

One other Reddit remark I noticed states, “I’d really be type of okay with all of this if the apps row had been the highest row.” I agree with this, and I’d be extra snug with this transformation if it meant I did not must navigate previous a row of content material I do not care about to achieve my prime streaming apps. This new house display screen structure continues to be in testing, so it could not ever be rolled out broadly. Primarily based on person reactions on-line, Amazon would possibly wish to think about taking this one again to the drafting board.

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