UPDATE: NTFS and FAT32 drives work fine on this device.

Thank you, I've been waiting for your review on this

As of May 2023, NTFS is available with few limitations, works directly with a thumb drive, and on powered external storage devices(didn't test SSDs). Apparently, the USB port of the Cube simply can't power enough not even external drives. So armed with an OTG cable I was able to power an old Seagate external drive and plug into Cube. Works like a charm. Install VLC or Just (Video) Player and can use it as any $300 media player. It plays Dolby Vision and Atmos, no DTS:X so far but supports the other DTS profiles.

Thanks for this review Chigz. I have the 2nd gen Cube. So be passing this one by.

Thank you for your information and superb break down of the Amazon cube generation 3.

This is the most complete Fire TV Cube 3rd Gen test yet, thanks for testing emulation !

Great overview, thanks for this review, helped me tremendously. Just a small remark, and since this is a tech channel, when you said 100 Megabyte LAN you obviously meant Megabit per second and not Megabyte. It's a mistake most people make but mind that one (Megabyte) is 8x the other (Megabit).

1) NTFS was available as initially delivered but it required accessing that memory with an app like a file manager or directly from a playing app. That changed immediately with a revision graded OS within a week and NTFS is very nicely available by just plugging in the USB2. USB2 with NTFS is fast and supports large files. 2) More importantly, the video quality as played at 4K is extremely good even when it represents upscaled 720p, 1080p or 480p. The great colors and resolution seems slightly better since the latest upgrade software although better than simply terrific is hard to measure. 3) Overall it beats the video upscaled from standard HD from my other streaming devices including: googleTV with Chromecast 4K, Fire Stick 4K, ROKU Ultra 4K, Nvidia Shield TV 2017. 4) I have no need to pay more for 4K because it doesn't get me better video than the upscaled versions I'm watching. That might not be true with a super big screen TV but my living room won't accept such a TV and I'm fine with 50" and the Cube 3. 5) There's no chance I'd pay double the price for the Nvidia Shield TV Pro. (I paid $100 intro price for Fire Cube 3rd Gen). Wifi works terrifically with it and I have no interest in stringing a Cat 6 cable to get fast ethernet because I'm getting 160 Mb/s from wifi coming from the other end of my house.

Disappointed that in this day and age they've used 100Mb ethernet and USB 2 ports. What a shame. These are dealbreakees for me. I'll stick to my old Nvidia Shield.

I just read the specks sheet you showed and the chrome cast with google tv 4k is really good and I got it to BTW but I only use 1080p

I have a question: what boxes do you recommend for only iptv service

Best review.thank you

Great job sir!

Did you not test the upscaling ? I have nvidia shield and its upscaling works very good one thing that lets the shield down it doesnt support HLG :( so also have firestick 4K plugged in for that

Best tech channel out there

I've a m7 Pro 4k I want to upgrade to a better box what would you suggest of around £40 look forward to your reply.

Great review

The home screen could be declutter by customizing favorite apps using the options button.

Hey Chigz, just got myself this firecube.... When I'm using my skyq box with the cube's HDMI in port I get pictures but no sound..? Any ideas what it could be please?

Hi. I'm trying to record shows on my IPTV service. Using a thumb drive plugged in to the USB port on the cube 3 I just cannot get it to work. Do I need to do something with ADB?. Any suggestions would be much appreciated

Hi , i need your help. i have the fire cube 3rd genaration . i notice while playing HBO max ,Netflix, Disney plus i get dolby atmos but on amazon prime video i do net get dolby atmos . i run a test sound from the settings i got atmos but not on prime video . please could you help me to solve this issue ? thank you in advance .

Chigz Tech Reviews Thanks Much !

That could also be your memory stick with the read and write speeds as well.

Has anyone tested TIDAL masters quality setting on this? My google tv only supports Hifi not masters quality. Would love to know. Thanks

I had NO idea it could do all of this and wondered why it cost so much more than the likes of a Firestick. Amazon often do eextremely aggressive pricing discounts, e.g. I believe I paid £40 for a Ring Doorbell and the 8" display, and also paid £15 for a Firestick.... I wouldn't be surprised to see this price at under £100 this year; It's already been down to £112 (install the "Keepa" chrome extension and it will add an unobtrusive chart which shows the price history of any product you are looking at; this has informed my buying and led me to save hundreds of £££ last year). I used to have an NVidia Shield Tablet type, and the Nvidia Shield Portable Handheld (it was like a pre-historic Steam Deck with a 90's style chunky controller form factor).... no idea where they are ... I think the tablet is in a drawer somewhere after it stopped charging, along with a Google Android tablet of some variety).... I look back at some of my old gaming setups and wonder what the heck happened. Totally off-topic... I guess this would be totally useless to me, but I'm still very interested and I wonder if there's an Nvidia device that competes at a similar price.... or would it make more sense to wait a bit and opt for a Gen.2 deck? Does the Fire TV Cube 2022 offer advantages over a Shield? I feel like it would have superior file compatability and potential, whereby if they discount it to £100 it would be a no-brainer I'd think? Anyway - great video! Perhaps I'll just stick with my firestick (which is is super snappy and responsive, voice control etc...: brings my formerly-flagship Sony Screen up to date, as the UI is sluggish nowadays, and it's only 1080p. but it's still got incredible image quality as a £1000+ 42" screen from around 10 years ago, it was somewhat 'top end' - at the espense of screen size of course. It was the first Sony TV to featur the XMB (same UI as the Playstation 3)... in other words I can't think of what Iwould do with the Fire TV Cube, it's not like my TV would benefit from 4k, and this motorola x30's snapdragon chipset appears to be more powerful than the fire TV ; although I should compare specs. I could just WiFi direct from mobile ot my current tv and still emulate games I think? ... interesting stuff to look into once I tear myself away from OpenAI GPT3 :D

Good video I have the Fire TV Cube 2nd Gen and love it but this is nice.

Hi do you know if the new cube runs GameCube games via Dolphin?

on my firestick 4k max i get dolby atmos on prime video ?

This is not a worthy upgrade over the 2nd generation in my opinion. But if you are wanting a cube, it's a no brainer to buy this generation, though it's like that amazon will have some specials on that gen 2 to get rid of them.

Loving the improvement in looks, but that's about as far as it goes. For a few quid extra the Nvidea offers 1GB/s Lan, 4x faster read/write speeds and roughly 50% increase on Antutu score. Only real win for the Cube (IMO) is the ability to use WiFi6. It does have DDR4 instead of 3, but it has 2gb instead of 3. Really can't see what they've tried to achieve here by way of enticing users of other style TV Android boxes. Not at the price anyway. My V2 cube does everything I need it to as it is since the WiFi rarely fails and isn't capped at 100, unlike the lan port. If I was to be tempted to upgrade, it would either be an Nvidia Shield Pro, or wait until around 2028 when Amazon finally give us the updates to compete with it.

In the days were 256gb storage is the size of a fingernail, 16gb is just farcical...

2GB Ram in this is such a shame. If not 8GB, it should have at least 4GB RAM.

Not for me FAT32, USB 2.0 in 2022 and them Ethernet speeds are a big suprise....I'll stick with my two Nvidia Shields more than happy...keep up the good work my man.

i like the built in lan, and the USB could be nice, but the gen2 is mounted on my wall behind the TV. I don't care about the design. is this actually worth spending $140 for still only providing 100mb LAN.

This is a great device!!

Can stremio be sideloaded to this?

Thanks for the good review. The Beelink GT King II (with Android 11 Amlogic A311D2 Octa Core LPDDR4 8GB 64GB Support 4K 60fps BT5.0 1000M USB3.0 etc.) has been available for a while now. Is there a chance you might review it? I haven't seen any real reviews on this thing and you are my first stop.

i have a 4k smart tv ,is there any reason why i should buy this,

I have a hard drive with about 1000 movies, mostly mp4’s, but some have other formats and codecs. Is their a box that has all the streaming apps, but could also contain all of my movies? I know I could have a network setup with a PC but are their other convenient options? Haven’t looked into but any suggestions welcome.

Hello have you tried runnig Gamecube emulators like Dolphin ?

Awesome video bro as always, so this makes the appletv 4K gen 3 king of streaming boxes in a few days 😊

Is that supported to this device full hd tv not 4k???

Maybe somethign that's worth adding to the pinned comment? I've read since mid December DTS HD, Dolby True HD Passthrough was added!!

Can the cube broadcast music on its own like an echo. Don’t want to have the tv and sound bar always turned on to listen to music? Thanks

This looks like Eon set top box from Vivacom in Bulgaria.

Can it do Atmos via Plex?

Great information may go with nvidia shield

Google rv or fire tv? €22 vs €29,99 I just use, or Amazon Prime video, Netflix or Disney and KZfaq and google movies(for my star wars movies)....It has no casting right? I use now a Chromecast ..... Back in the days i used Xbox or tv...but my tv only have Netflix left, and i don't have Xbox at the current

Thanks

have you tested the cube using a soundbar? how does this work while playing music? when you say alexa play music, then does the tv need to be turned on first and then the music is played on the soundbar? or how does this work thanks

Got one and hate it, not as stable as previous gen. Buffering issues non stop, that's with Wifi 6 and also tried plugged in direct to GB lan. Buffering is stupid bad. Esp on Peacock shows just top every 5 min. Also sound is huge issue Dolby Atmos going from that to another and sound cuts off have to restart the Cube to get sound back. Ordered the New Apple to try it and plan on sending this back once it arrives.

I am getting this Soon Bro!!!

I like this new fire cube, but why only 16gb that is the only downside….

Is the new Fire-stick 4K max as good as this box - which would you recommend?

In Bulgaria we have a Eon tv from Vivacom.

Great job I've got the 2nd gen and a shield so I'll pass on this one for now

As always, very informative.Thank you. P.S. can you download and play IPTV on this cube?

wonder if you can use the IR Extender that came with the FireCube 2.0 , on the 3rd gen model

I wish I knew about these before I got a smart tv. I had a perfectly good tv from 2016. It just wasn't smart. I could have just used one of these.

Can Miracast be Installed on Mecool KM2 I Need Screen Mirroring Support is there any way to mirror without Internet usage (Please if You have any other Screen Mirroring method other than Chromecast for Android do help)

I recently bought the AppleTV 4k and while it’s fluid and quality is second to none whilst watching films etc I still yearn for something I can stream straight off the bat from my phone or install an app that the App Store seemingly doesn’t want to allow. Would a switch to this or the latest Shield do the trick do you think?

Shield FTW

What the hell Amazon? 100mps ethernet and USB 2.0. They cut corners all the time, and this could have been a great device, but for the prices, it's not. Don't waste your money. For the price, the Shield still blows it away. And that interface is still gawd awful.

What is the display you are using? Is it HDR compatible television or monitor?

It's slightly better than the 2nd gen but very disappointed with the spec's. Usb 2.0 100mb Internet fat32 not ntfs. Late 2022 can't beat the 2019 nvidia shield

Support sound passthrough with dts-hd ma or dolby digital truehd?

Why include USB-C when the included power adapter is already efficient enough? The reason why we got so many ports included, such as an extra HDMI IN, USB, and Ethernet, is because they want to combat the use of dongle adapters the previous Generation Fire TV Cube had used, and USB-C doesn’t serve any purpose at all.

Hi Mr. Chigz, I own the shield, however, I'm looking for a box that can also do HDR10 and HDR10+ and the Cube can, but not the Shield. It is an important difference to my eyes...

Bought one the other day. Still have no clue what or why ! 😆

Does this support true dolby Atmos or it decodes to Dolby digital +?

Can you use the HDMI to connect a soundbar????? ARC???

The Power port should not be a Con, it' s just power, as long as it powers the device and is not some strange non standard connection it's OK, as long as it has the current to power a USB Hard Rive it's just fine. The Ethernet Port being only 10/100Mbps and USB only out dated Stone Aged 2.0 that came out in 2000 and is only half duplex. USB 3 came out in 2008 so it's not like it's a brand new expensive luxury technology that costs substantially more than USB 3.

Is that your tv 4k or full hd

Hey man, I need your help. Is the Portuguese language available on the product?

How do you download SkyGo?

If I had a 1080p non Atmos projector plugged in to this via the HDMI out would this stream Atmos to my Amazon studios (theatre group)

Cool , always best reviews from you. Yes, too expensive for this they should have launched like previous cube price range. Thought this would work for Plex like nvidia, but this disappointing. Looking for Apple new tv ,review update to chart

can you download original content on prime video for offline view?

Only 2 GB Ram. Sad.

The review is good, but considering 100Mbps ethernet port (and USB2.0..) a pro makes no sense whatsoever. You'd be better off using WiFi 6/6E than using a 100Mbps port that WILL struggle to play high bitrate content from a Plex server for example. I already struggle with this on my OLED TV and had to use a ethernet adapter via USB2 (480Mbps) which mostly solves the issue. It will still be fine for me as I have WiFi 6E at home, but, just needed to point out that that is NOT a pro and I don't know why Amazon even bothered puting that port there.

How fo you hook a bluetooth keyboard on this device

2gb ram that sucks. Most of that is taken for system so almost nothing is left for other stuff.

Haven’t we got the best plugs though ! 👌(UK).

This could have been a great product even at it's current price of $139. Even though I purchased it at its pre-release price of $99 on Amazon, the fact is the one real reason I purchased this device was for the Wifi 6e and it doesn't hook up to my Xfinity XB8 wifi 6e modem, it makes the connection and then has no internet connection, the info says it isn't compatible with Ipv6. Secondly it says it is HDMI (hdcp) 2.1 but yet it won't play 4k on Vudu. It only plays HDX. So until Amazon fixes these issues I'll stick with my Nvidia Shield Pro. While it may only have Wifi 5 is also has a 1000gb ethernet port and plays 4k material on every app it's supposed to.

I great video but I wish you would have tried aether sx PS2 emulator and 🐬

I love your reviews !! You're the best TV box reviewer on YT but all the hype around this thing is absolute BS. The hardware specs on this thing are from 2013.Nvidia shield pro is still the best TV box out there.

Ram and storage has to be upgraded to attract people to buy.

When the fire cube catches up with the Nvidia Shield give me a wake up call.

truehd atmos will work?

United Kingdom Channels like BBC1, BBC2, ITV1, Channel 4 and Channel 5???

Mute Alexa! 🤣

l have that at home it will turn on the TV of and on

Only 2GB RAM, Only 100Mbps LAN, Only FAT32 on external USB drives, expensive, etc... This should not get 5 out of 5.

Doesn't correctly display 24fps content like the Apple TV 4K does

It might come down in price at Christmas, maybe $99 ???

I upgraded from the 4K Max to this new Cube. It loads slightly faster, the picture is slightly better. I have no use for Alexa as I have two echo dots for this. So this nullifies the Cube for this function. I don't have Sky or Virgin boxes (UK paid subscriptions) so don't need a HDMI attached from those to the Cube. I am definitely not connecting a console to it. So there is actually no point of the Cube for those on the 4K Max which I am going back to.

Can we get TrueHD audio from kodi? :)

only 2gig ram, usb 2.0 and not usb 3.0 and ethernet port only 100mb and not gigabit lan....nope, this is def not worth the money

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