Urgent warning to Amazon Fire Stick TV users before popular app stops working

Jun 4, 2025 Culture views: 162

Three of Amazon’s streaming device products will stop working on June 3 (Picture: Photothek)

Older Fire TV models will become incompatible with the Netflix app tomorrow.

First-generation devices of Amazon’s range,including the Fire TV,Fire TV stick and Fire TV stick with Alexa Voice Remote,will no longer be supported by Netflix.

The first two products came out in 2014,while the third was released in 2016.

Netflix previously emailed affected customers about the change,and users of the devices will have noticed some modern video formats don’t work.

This is because Amazon has not updated them for a while.

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Wake up to find news on your TV shows in your inbox every morning with Metro’s TV Newsletter.Sign up to our newsletter and then select your show in the link we’ll send you so we can get TV news tailored to you.The first-gen models are from 2014 and 2016 respectively (Picture: Getty)Netflix has not given a specific reason for ending support,but PCWorld reports it may be due to newer video coding formats allowing better-quality images.Affected users who want to upgrade have been encouraged to choose a newer model with 4k resolution support,as these will be supported the longest.Models from the second-generation onwards will still be supported for the foreseeable future,however.

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