Amazon Fire TV 50" Omni Series (newest model), 4K UHD smart TV, hands-free with Alexa + 4-Year Protection Plan

***4/9/2026** Over a year, just wanted to punch up my review. No issues whatsoever. Love these TVs. Excellent experience with my firetvs. No slowdowns, no graphical issues, they have been on point. Big thumbs in my opinion. ***UPDATE - 6 Months - 5/19/25: - Original Review Underneath - I've come back around for an update for my Amazon fireTV experience to say it is still a wonderful TV. The two that I purchased (about a month apart) both are. I understand in other reviews that farther down the line it seems that they might just "stop working" but so far they have been working flawlessly. I am the type of person that upgrades my TV's every 3 years or so anyway, so if they stop working around then I will just take that at as a sign to get a new one. But that's just me. I take things in stride and for a smart TV that I got on sale for less than $400, I mean, come on. If you math that out that's less than most people pay monthly on ONE streaming service. Even if you paid full price, calm down. I still have no graphical errors, the colors are strong, there is no tearing or dead pixels in either unit. They both get daily use, hours of daily use. I have a soundbar on one unit which obviously increases the sound quality. The audio on the unit without the soundbar still produces decent sound, slightly above standard TV quality, unremarkable but nothing to complain about. They get plenty loud, so that's never been an issue. I have one unit named "Alexa" and one named "Echo". You can go into the menu and change the settings to rename the voice recognition options. So I can speak to the TV's independently. Speaking of, you still have to use the remote people. Voice control only goes so far, it goes very far actually, you can do most everything by voice, but selecting things with the remote is still required on occasion. (I like setting my sleep timer by voice at night, "Alexa, set sleep timer 20 minutes", when I'm laying in bed with my Pandora/Hulu app running.) You can google Alexa commands to see what your options are. ALSO, for everyone talking about slowdowns. Every time you open an app, it stays running in the background. It's like a phone or tablet. You open Disney+ then finish what you're watching, then go to the homescreen, Disney+ is still open in the background. Then you open Paramount+, then go to the homescreen, now Disney+ and Paramount+ are running in the background and so on and so forth, to infinity and beyond. Personally, I have never experienced slowdown's to that degree yet, but I would try doing a TV restart every night/morning (takes 90 seconds). I restart my TV's about once a week just as a preventative measure anyway. I will admit there are small irritations here and there. Alexa mishearing me. Hulu freezing once a week. Paramount+ logging me out once a month ( I honestly have a hard time even blaming the TV for that, I feel like it happens around my subscription renewal, so I think it is something that is server side with Paramount). But there are ALWAYS super quick fixes to these little bummers. Don't let these things ruin your day. Don't worry, be happy. [My TV's have never just turned off on their own either, so I'm not sure what issue that may be, I'm sorry to hear that some people suffer with that.] The only caveat I cannot speak to is the customer service problem, the frustration and pure exasperation I see is real. So I empathize with everyone who has had to deal with all of their issues. My TV's have worked flawlessly since purchase so I have never needed to contact any service reps. Edit: 6/30/25 As of today I have only had to replace the batteries once, on only ONE of my 2 sets (using Amazon brand batteries). *** -ORIGINAL REVIEW- So I've been waiting a while to write this review to get a decent feel. Honest opinion, AWESOME television. Amazing value, picture quality was great. Color/contrast didn't need adjusting right out of the box (personal opinion obviously) but you can tweak to your hearts desire. Alexa listened and responded promptly. I could just step through my front door and ask her to turn the TV on and within seconds I was at the main screen. Speaking of the interface, I found it quite intuitive. Not to disparage anyone but if you have a general understanding of how computers and/or other smart devices like smart phones work you shouldn't have a problem (QR codes might be the most difficult for those with less experience). Easy to setup and connect. Easy to connect to all your subscriptions and apps. To be honest, my TV came preinstalled with someone else's amazon account loaded, but luckily there are steps involved that make it impossible for someone to just log straight in. I just removed their account and had to take a few extra steps to add mine, again, fairly straight forward. The only issues I've run into are on a rare occasion there is a very slight lag when scrolling through apps. But if you just go into settings and do a TV restart it clears right up. All in all, at the price with the quality. A must buy. Addendum: I will concede I do not connect external hard drives or any other devices as of yet but my XBOX connects flawlessly. Great TV! Edit: For those worried about Alexa listening all the time, there is a hard flip switch directly underneath the "firetv" symbol under the center of the screen. Once you flip that the only way to control the TV is through the remote and Alexa no longer responds to voice commands and "allegedly" no longer receives any input. You can still speak to the remote as you would to Alexa while holding down the blue Alexa button as usual. In fact you don't even need to use the "Alexa" prompt, you can just say "Netflix" or "Bob's Burger's". P.S. A TV so nice I bought it twice.

Just purchased the Fire TV 50" Omni. Everything went very well. Prime delivery was fast and the TV was placed at the front door by UPS. Packaging is solid but TV is easy to unbox. Setup was simple. We just attached the feet, connected the cables (power and ethernet), plugged it in and hit the power button...after several software updates, it was ready to go. App setup and installation was very easy compared to another TVs I am familiar with. Picture quality with default settings is excellent. TV speakers also sound really good as compared to other similar / larger TVs. The remote is small (Amazon style) but it works well. The built-in Alexa also works flawlessly with no setup if you already have an Amazon account and use Alexa devices. We have used the TV Alexa to turn on / off the TV, select APPS, and set a thermostat - it works just like an Echo device. The Alexa module at the front bottom of the TV has an on-off switch if you don't want it listening. Only issue we had was that the HDMI ARC audio (through the receiver) did not work for Netflix with the default "auto" detection feature in audio settings. The "auto" setting is supposed to optimize the HDMI ARC output to the source. This HDMI ARC setting did not work for Netflix. The audio was choppy...made a sound like tapping on a table...really strange... Netflix audio through TV speakers was fine and HDMI ARC audio for other APPS (Amazon Prime Video, HBO Max) all worked as well. I couldn't find information on this problem online so experimented with settings. FIX - found that changing the audio output for the HDMI ARC to Dolby Digital solved the problem, and now Netflix sounds perfect. Not sure why the "auto" setting is not compatible with Netflix but am happy that it could be resolved so easily. I wonder if others are having that problem too... Overall, this is a great TV and Amazon is selling it at a terrific price. We are happy with the purchase and would buy it again.

The images are sped up like on some of the 4k tvs simply hold home button, go to pictures, advanced, and then take smoothing down to zero to decrease this some ppl hate it I hate it it's an issue with some 4k tvs. Graphics are good Alexa is responsive, altogether it's a good tv. My only complaint is the ups man who was acting shifty on giving me my tv said no one was home the first time when he tried to leave it and said he left a slip my mom watched him look at her and drive off then he tried to do the same thing with my husband the next day it didn't work cuz my husband stopped his truck and then he looked sad when he had to unload it so I don't know if he was just being lazy or trying to steal it by saying it got lost on its way back to amazon since ups only tries to deliver twice before sending it back. So make sure someone's home watching for it cuz some ppl r dishonest. It comes in a fire tv marked box so there's no guessing what's in it. Altogether I love the tv so far packaging removal wasn't a Hassel, set up is normal if you already have smart devices in your home like I do then setting up is even easier since you can link it to your other amazon devices. Plus 300 for a 4k 55 inch is a really good price. It took me 15 minutes max for set up probably closer to ten. The rest of the ppl on here complaining need to realize you got a 300 dollar 55 inch tv. It's not Samsung, or Sony, or a high end LG it is Amazon's first attempt at a television it's not perfect and it's going to need twerking. You didn't spend 1000 on a large tv u got a cheap 55 inch and as such I do give it five stars because price is on point, you can control the device using your voice without a remote, image is good, it's very responsive and not slow on load so you get what you pay for if you want to complain about little things get a more expensive tv.

The TV is replacing my 15 year old 52" that still works but just doesn't have that good of a picture anymore. I read ALL of the reviews on here and was a little sketched out by how many issues some people were having. I decided to pull the trigger, especially for the $700 price point, and thought if it is junk then I'll return it and go with something else. Although I have only had this thing for a couple days now, I am extremely impressed by the picture and the OS! I used an Amazon Fire TV Stick before with my old TV and as soon as I turned on the new TV, it loaded updates and then asked me if I wanted to transfer the files from my old Firestick to the new Fire TV. It then proceeded to bring all the apps over and saved me a lot of time dealing with this manually. I also paired it with an Echo Studio... this went seamlessly. I can't speak for the audio of the TV alone, but when paired with the Echo Studio it is outstanding! I am hoping to add a second Echo Studio and a sub very soon! I also subscribe to YouTube TV and after getting the TV set up and running I upgraded to the YouTube TV 4k trial and that is where you really see what this TV is capable of as far as picture quality! I was not really impressed with how some older shows looked... my wife used the term "soap opera looking" and I think that is pretty spot on. I messed with the settings some but didn't really find a good "fix". I will continue to adjust and will update if I get that ironed out. One other thing is I noticed in some of the reviews people were complaining about losing the remote and not having a way to turn on the TV other than via Alexa. This TV actually does come with a power button next to the Alexa mic on/off switch. Overall I am very pleased with the TV. The 4 stars were due to the shipping fiasco. Look, I understand this time of year (between Thanksgiving and Christmas) is a hectic time for shipping items. When I ordered the TV it said the shipping would be in like 2-3 weeks... I was ok with that. But, the 3rd party that Amazon used was terrible. When I would check the tracking update, their website didn't recognize the tracking number. Then I get an notification that the delivery must be scheduled so that an adult is there to sign for it upon arrival. That's fine, but they didn't call and schedule this until the day before delivery to my house. Since the tracking was so jacked up, I had very little time to arrange someone to be at my house between the 4 hour window they gave me! I was able to get someone there for the first couple of hours before I was able to take time off from work to relieve them. I sat there waiting through the entire delivery window and beyond. Finally, 2 hours after the end of the scheduled time they arrive in a smaller box truck. I lost a 1/2 day of work for nothing. The TV itself is great so far and I will update as I get more use from it, but if you are looking for a less expensive 75" tv... this one is good choice. UPDATE 12/12/2022: After playing around with the settings I have been able to get rid of the "soap opera look". Using the preset video settings, I was using the "Standard" movie setting. After changing that to "Natural" setting, it now looks more like a movie theater vs soap opera. I have also noticed that the dark/black scenes are not showing grit or grainy video like many mentioned in the reviews. In fact, it is a very solid black that I see and perhaps the grainy complaints are due to the source rather than the tv? The longer I've had this tv the more I am VERY pleased with it! It would be nice it if it were a 120Hz vs 60Hz since I do love to watch football and it does pixelate some... but the overall experience has been completely positive for me. I would absolutely recommend this tv to anyone! One last thing, I mounted the tv on my wall using a wall mount that was rated for 110lbs. The tv is said to be approximately 65lbs. The mount I used is an articulating mount for putting the tv in the corner of a room and having ability to pull it out and position it left/right. Although I had plenty of "room" left in the weight column, it does not let me sleep well at night worrying about waking to see my tv on the floor! I would suggest getting a mount rated for at least 150lbs if using the articulating type. UPDATE 12/19/2022: As I mentioned above, I have paired my fire tv with an Echo Studio speaker and it sounds outstanding! However, I had an issue with this pairing that I wanted to mention here in case anyone else has had this problem. When I turned on my tv the other morning it would not load up saying that there was no internet connection. After some quick troubleshooting I verified that the internet was working fine on another tv with a firestick in my house. So I tried to do a "restart" of the fire tv application but that didn't help. I then decided to try to do a hard reboot by disconnecting the power to the tv and speaker. This didn't work either. In fact, at this point my tv and the speaker were no longer paired (although it said they were in the alexa app on my phone). The speaker attempted to complete its "setup" after the power was turned back on, but couldn't complete it. It actually got into a loop of "Attempting to connect to internet... preparing device... etc." So I unplugged the speaker from power and tried to get my tv to work. After doing another reboot on the tv, it came up and was working fine. Once I applied power again to my speaker... my tv started dropping out again and finally lost internet connection. Bottom line is, the speaker was somehow interfering with the tv so I performed a factory reset on the speaker and went and cleared the pairing out of the alexa app on my phone and let everything do it setup again and I re-paired the tv and the speaker and it all is working happy again. I've seen some reviews mention the speaker and tv would lose their pairing so I hope this might help someone else. Still happy with both, but if this gets to be a regular occurrence... I will likely change my mind. UPDATE 21DEC2022: The TV will not work with the Echo Studio via Dolby ATMOS... at least mine don't. After over an hour on the phone with tech support, the person on the other end told me this after we had tried to factory reset the ECHO Studio and the Fire TV. Hopefully a future OS update will make this work. I suppose it will still work using the fiber optic connection. FINAL UPDATE 06JAN2022: I actually found out what was causing the Echo Studio speakers to stop working with the Fire TV. After no real help through customer support and actually had a refund scheduled, I dug into the forums and finally found the answer. The Alexa app does not play nice with a VPN. I disabled the VPN and the system has been working flawlessly for 2 weeks. I hope they are able to sort this out with future software updates because I do want to use a VPN if possible. I'm very happy, NOW, with this TV and speaker system!

Like my title says this is the last branded Amazon tech product I will buy. When I first got it I actually really liked the tv to the point that I was like I will just keep buying these from here on out. What I like I like the size and I really like the picture. What I don't like It is incredibly laggy it is insane. I will click a button in any area from an app to the Home Screen to settings and I am waiting anywhere from 3 to 5 seconds almost every time to have it register. The apps I have a lot of issues with as well. Some are not Amazon ones but I know it's the tv and not the apps as the old smart tv I had I did not have some of these issues. Take the twitch app for example. I will move up to where it says back to exit a video and the whole app closes after just hitting the button once. I just turned on my tv and the tv has a memory thing when I opened the twitch app it was on a streamers profile. I moved over to the live section to watch them live and hit the enter button 30 plus times and it just sat there. The memory of the tv while some may like it I absolutely hate it. The reason being is take HBO Max for example (Hulu does it as well) will sometimes for some reason get rid of the continue watching line of shows so on my old tv I would exit the app and go back in and that would fix the issue. With the Fire tv and the memory it never gets fixed that way. I have to go into settings and restart the tv for it to forget. The resetting of the tv I have to do it on almost a daily basis. There have been a few days but not many where I don't need to reset it and others I have done it multiple times my old smart tv I would rarely do it monthly. The Home Screen almost half is filled with a giant banner of ads and sometimes that banner will expand to the whole screen and just start playing. My old tv had the same thing with the top part and I am okay with that. I don't like how it expands and is forcing me to watch ads until I close it. The other issue and I went into the settings and turned off all the notifications and I still am seeing the banner at the bottom telling me to try this with Alexa is the giant banners or huge rectangles that pop up telling me to try and say this to Alexa. Yesterday and it's not the first time but the upper right of the screen was filled with a giant black box telling me to try and say something to Alexa to try and search for it. Best part was I was in the Hulu app and I couldn't see a bunch of shows as this took up so much space I was unable to see behind it. I don't know who thinks something like this is a good idea but all it is going to accomplish is people not being able to watch shows and not spend money on your products. I can't really recommend this tv at all. If you were to maybe just use it as a tv and not a smart tv then I could see that but with all my issues it's just not a good choice.

Received my 75inches Amazon fire omini TV today and my first impression is absolutely fantastic. Amazon has not shared much technical information like panel type is IPS or VA but since it supports enhanced dolby vision I assume hardware is high end and supports 12 bit depth at panel and graphics/processor level. I have watched so far SDR and HDR 4k contents and performance is absolutely amazing out of box settings. YouTube, Netflix, Amazon prime videos, Pluto tv, Peacock are my frequently used apps and all worked flawlessly. I will return to my updates after spending some more time with various types of contents, specially enhanced dolby vision. Update Oct 30th- watched squid games on Netflix in Dolby vision. When source contents are in DV mode this Tv senses the format automatically and DV logo appears on playback. I watched at night time keeping lights off in room and paid attention to all kinds of scenes that were being presented like day light, night times, indoor, outdoor etc. It scored absolutely 100% movie theater level presentation which I thought was never possible on LCD Tv. Color clarity to the extent no detail missed. Issues- yes I noticed 1 issue too in case Amazon technical team wants to know. 1. Video playback turned absolutely black occasionally with just audio sound going on. This happened while watching episodes of LOST season 2, episodes 16 to 20. It happened consistently when commercials that interrupt automatically in between and absolutely after last commercial is complete, episodes playback resumes with only audio and no video. Exiting episode and returning back to resume play manually always resolved this issue. I assume it to be a software glitch either of IMDB TV or Amazon prime. Dec 5th update: Installed Ring door bell, Amazon thermostat, Myq garage door opener and camera. All added as a device on Alexa application. Found that Tv gets integrated to Ring door bell and thermostat automatically. Nothing impressed my wife so far but the ease of announcing to Fire Tv straight from bed even when TV is powered off “Alexa set thermostat to xx temperature “ . Just this one smart feature turned out to be biggest winner. Tv continues to perform fantastic so far! Update Feb 16th,2022 - purchased Amazon studio to enhance dolby atmos sound experience and it made amazing difference. I placed it in center below my bed, found this to be best for room full of sound. Connecting to TV was a piece of cake through Alexa application. Tv continues to perform well till date and seems like Amazon is pushing automated software updates too. Happy customer!

Pros: Great big TV with 4 HDMI inputs - one dedicated for ARC for soundbars or speaker setups Easy setup and customization Fast connection speeds - i thought i had my ethernet cord in correctly but realized after three apps installed i saw that i didn’t plug it in. it was so fast with its wireless connection i didn’t realize it wasn’t wired. Cons: Remote pairing for cable boxes is a half days worth of searching for codes & ending up using auto search mashing a button for 20 minutes per input. On the Fence: Alexa - if you are all in on voice control this is the tv for you, i don’t use it personally so it’s nice that there is a physical switch on the bottom of the tv to turn that off - then you can run through the various alexa menus to turn that off or any privacy or ad serving settings - took me a under a half hour to undo all that, not sure the average person has the patience for that but hey maybe you can do it faster than me. This isn’t a con than more than a personal preference. Tips: Use the latest 4K HDMI cables you have, anything from the early 2.0 days will cause a fit in the HDMI ARC connection. Get a stand, feet or wall mount this tv. The supplied feet are fine and work just okay but are a little low and makes remote use a bit hard if you have a sound bar. Audio: For anyone else with an optimum cable tv box - for audio control make sure you go into the deeper audio settings of the audio settings and have it set to “other” for output control and not dolby digital - and then volume control set to variable. so wasn’t able to control volume of the tv with my cable tv remote until i put it on these settings. It took me two days to figure this out myself - i’m putting this here to help anyone else out. Edit: 11/06/22 For any cord cutters - I’ve just added a Tivo Stream 4k dongle for the cohesion of apps in one place and a remote that feels like a TV remote. Edit. 12/05/22 Moved the Tivo Stream 4K to another room & picked up a second apple tv 4k (2020 that has the ethernet input) and use that as the automatic input now.

Love this TV! Really awesome picture!