How To Set Up Amazon Fire Tv Recast

The Amazon Fire Tv Recast is one of the more than interesting devices released past Amazon in contempo memory. That'southward not because information technology'due south especially original — nosotros've used other like devices before.

Instead, it's what information technology means for the streaming TV industry as a whole that intrigues us. The Fire Telly Recast is going to be a boon for over-the-air tv in the internet historic period. It's going to be a benefaction for anyone who sells antennas. (Especially on Amazon.)

And it'south going to help fill any holes left behind by the streaming services, which don't always carry local channels in every location. Plus, it makes recording those local channels simple.

Here are the major questions asked regarding the the Amazon Fire TV Recast — starting with a big red button pointing to where you can buy it.

Run across at Amazon
$230 at Best Buy

What is the Amazon Burn Telly Recast

The Amazon Burn down TV Recast is what we like to call an over-the-air streaming box. It takes an over-the-air TV indicate from an antenna and shares information technology to multiple devices.

The Recast works, for starters, with Amazon Burn down TV devices — sticks, the Amazon Burn down Idiot box Cube and 4K pendant, and Amazon Fire TV-powered televisions. You lot'll also be able to watch content through Amazon'southward Android and iOS apps.

The Fire Idiot box Recast as well comes with a built-in hard bulldoze and so that you can tape all that over-the-air content.

At that place are two versions of the recast — a two-tuner model (so that you can lookout man and record more than i affair at a time) with a 500-gigabyte hard bulldoze for, and a four-tuner model with a 1TB hard drive.

How much does the Amazon Fire TV Recast cost?

The ii-tuner Amazon Burn Tv Recast costs $229. The four-tuner Burn Tv Recast costs $279.

What else do I need to employ a Fire TV Recast?

The Fire TV Recast is a headless box. Information technology'south but tuners, and a hard bulldoze. To utilise a Fire TV Recast you'll as well demand either an Android phone or an iOS device, or an Amazon Fire Tv device — and you'll also need an over-the-air antenna.

(We'll assume y'all already accept a home Wifi network prepare upwardly.)

You besides can watch on the Amazon Echo Show.

Does the Amazon Fire Telly Recast come with an antenna?

It does not. You'll demand your own over-the-air antenna.

You tin find our recommendations for the all-time over-the-air antennas here .

Can the Fire TV Recast record more than 1 show at a time?

It sure can. The two-tuner Fire Tv Recast can tape two channels simultaneously. The iv-tuner Fire Goggle box recast can record up to iv channels simultaneously.

Here's the full breakdown, per Amazon:

With a 2-tuner Recast:

Record up to 2 programs at in one case,
Watch up to 1 alive and 1 recorded program on different devices, while recording another;
Sentinel up to 2 recorded programs on different devices, while recording two programs in the groundwork; OR
Watch up to 2 alive programs on different devices at one time.

With a four-tuner Recast:

Record up to four programs at once;
Lookout upwards to 1 live and i recorded plan on different devices, while recording up to 3 other programs in the background;
Watch upwardly to ii recorded programs on dissimilar devices, while recording upwardly to iv programs in the background; OR
Watch upwards to 2 live programs on different devices at one time while recording up to ii other programs in the background.

Does the Burn Television Recast transcode video?

It does. Videos are recorded natively equally an MPEG-2 file at 1920x1080 resolution. (And nosotros're willing to bet someone volition figure out how to rip those files correct out of the Recast.)

The Recast and then transcodes the files (for those of y'all who don't speak nerd, that just ways changes the file format to make the file smaller and easier to stream) earlier shooting them out to all your devices.

It's precisely the same scheme as y'all'll find with a Tablo OTA streaming box.

How many channels tin can I picket simultaneously?

Hither'southward where the fine print kicks in. While you can record as many every bit four channels at in one case (on the four-tuner model), you just can scout equally many as two channels at the same time.

That'southward considering the Fire Idiot box Recast but has two transcoding tuners.

Does the Amazon Burn TV Recast apply my internet information?

If you're simply watching through your home network, internet apply should be limited to whatever it takes to update the on-screen channels guide. The Recast prefers to connect straight to whatever device yous're watching on — actually bypassing your home network, and so that yous'll get the best playback possible.

If you're watching on a telephone exterior your home network, it'll have to upload the data on the wing, and that will get your Internet service provider involved.