Fire TV Stick 2

[tredman]

I need another media player device (not sure the wife agrees though ).

I currently have a fire TV stick 1, but the deinterlacing on SD mpeg2 and HD h264 is mostly poop.

Will a fire TV stick 2 be better? I need a stick type device due to the TV and cabling being buried in the wall

[cosmoxl]

if it has to be a stick, yes, I believe the 2nd gen is much better than the first. it's only $40 so the wife shouldn't complain too much.

[tredman]

if it has to be a stick, yes, I believe the 2nd gen is much better than the first. it's only $40 so the wife shouldn't complain too much.

Thanks, the v1 is not so bad (at least with h264 content) but MPEG2 is very 'soft' and the deinterlacing is not very good.

[cosmoxl]

if it has to be a stick, yes, I believe the 2nd gen is much better than the first. it's only $40 so the wife shouldn't complain too much.

Thanks, the v1 is not so bad (at least with h264 content) but MPEG2 is very 'soft' and the deinterlacing is not very good.

I should rephrase. The stick2 has much better hardware but unless MrMC can use the hardware to do better deinterlacing I think it'll look about the same as the stick1 since it'll still be using ffmpeg.