I just received a new Fire TV cube gen 3, because my old one is malfunctioning. I know, I hate these devices myself, but it’s the only option right now, since a new version of the Nvidia shield isn’t coming in the foreseeable future.

So, I plugged in the power chord and the HDMI cable into the cube.

When it booted up it showed a screen that it’s downloading the newest update. At first I thought this must be some typo-bug on the initial boot steps, because I haven’t even connected it to the internet yet, neither via cable nor did I go through the wifi setup.

After the update has finished, I was greeted with my real name and the cube indeed had the actual WiFi settings!

WTF?! How’s that even possible?

  • adONis@lemmy.worldOP
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    8 months ago

    yes, playback might work, but it will fall back to HDR10 or even SDR, since not all metadata is passed through.

    So to fully take advantage of hdr10+, dolby vision, 5.1, atmos, and what not… each device in the chain, from the source to the output, and the hdmi cable, have to fully support it.