MrMC

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

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.

cosmoxl wrote: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.

tredman wrote:

cosmoxl wrote: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.