If you're looking to upgrade the streaming experience on your TV, a streaming stick is one of the easiest and most affordable ways to do it, and that's one of the main reasons why Fire TV Sticks remain so popular.
Amazon's Fire TV Stick lineup includes four models, each with its own feature set and price point. At the low end is the Fire TV Stick HD, designed for basic 1080p streaming and priced at $35. At the other end is the Fire TV Stick 4K Max, Amazon's most powerful streaming stick. It supports Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos, includes Wi-Fi 6E and 16GB of storage, and normally costs $60, though it's often on sale for as low as $40.
However, beyond its Fire TV Sticks, there's one device in Amazon's streaming lineup that often gets overlooked: the Fire TV Cube.
While it's not as cheap, coming in at $140, the Fire TV Cube's biggest advantage is that it's not a streaming stick at all. Instead, it's a set-top box, similar to the Roku Ultra and Apple TV 4K. That larger form factor allows it to pack in faster, more powerful hardware and additional features like Ethernet, ultimately delivering a far better streaming experience than a Fire TV Stick. The problem is that Amazon hasn't updated it in years.
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