One of the most popular streaming media players available on the market, the new Amazon Fire TVis the best "plug and play" TV box on our list. It is one of the highest selling and highest rated TV boxes available, and the new features are sure to attract even more customers!
Highlights
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4k streaming at 60 fps
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Alexa Voice Control
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Dolby Atmos Audio
Like its previous version, Amazon Fire TV offers all your favorite subscriptions ans streaming services. You can watch TV episodes and movies on Netflix, Amazon Instant Video and HBO NOW, plus games, music and more. In addition, you can also utilize an external hard drive to transfer and stream local media files to Amazon Fire TV for watching. However, since Amazon Fire TV has support for very limited file formats. If you media files are Blu-ray or DVD disc formats, you will not be able to stream them to Amazon Fire TV.
The basic and simple solution is to convert Blu-ray/DVD to Amazon Fire TV supported file formats. You can perform the conversion work with a third-party application called Pavtue BDMagic for Windows/Mac (Top 5 Blu-ray Rippers Review) which can comprehensive rip both Blu-ray and DVD to Amazon Fire TV playable formats as below:
Audio: Support for Dolby Digital Plus, 5.1 surround sound, 2ch Stereo and HDMI audio pass through up to 7.1
Content formats supported
Video: H.263, H.264, MPEG4-SP, VC1
Audio: AAC, AC-3, E-AC-3, HE-A, PCM, MP3
Photo: JPG, PNG
Output Resolution Supported: 720p and 1080p up to 60fp
How to transfer and stream Blu-ray to Amazon Fire TV for enjoyment
Step 1: Load Blu-ray disc to the program.
Insert your Blu-ray or DVD disc into an optical drive, when both Blu-ray or DVD exists, the software will load DVD.
Tips: You can select the main title with the biggest file size to convert, unselect all of the others, then you will save a lot of space and conversion time for the output file.
Step 2: Select subtitles and audio tracks for Blu-ray and DVD movies.
On the chapters displaying panel, select your desired "Subtitles" and "Audio tracks" for the output Blu-ray and DVD movies. You can also check to output "Force subtitles".
Step 3: Pick output file format.
Click "Format" bar, from its drop-down option, select "HD Video" > "H.264 HD Video (*.mp4)" as the final output file format.
Step 4: Start Blu-ray/DVD to Amazon Fire TV ripping process.
Switch back to the main interface, hit right-bottom convert button to start the ripping process.
When the conversion is completed, you can stream converted files to Amazon Fire TV through external USB drive.
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