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As for external storage, I’d like to point your attention to the unused USB port on the back of the Fire TV Recast. For those of you who have made it this far in the article, you, like me, probably have other plans beyond basic watching.Īmazon’s official stance is that the Fire TV Recast does not support external storage and video files cannot be transferred off of the device. Knowing all these video specifications is probably not important for the average consumer who just wants to tune-in and watch a high-quality reliable video stream, which it sounds like the Fire TV Recast will provide. If the playback device does not support Dolby 5.1, then 2-channel stereo audio will automatically be played instead.
Again, this assumes there is an unused tuner to use for the new recording.Īs far as audio goes, the Fire TV Recast supports Dolby 5.1 surround sound, both for live channel viewing and for recordings. If two devices are watching something and a third device hops on to watch a live show, while that third device will not be able to watch live, they will still be able to set their program to be recorded so that they can watch it later and not miss it.
The fact that viewing pre-recorded content does not affect active recordings is important for anyone who was hoping to have 3 or more devices viewing content simultaneously. Obviously, if a live channel is being viewed, that will reduce the number of channels that can be recorded simultaneously on either model. For the 2-tuner Fire TV Recast, 2 channels can be recorded while 2 devices stream pre-recorded content. This means that, for the 4-tuner Fire TV Recast, you can be recording 4 channels while two devices are watching pre-recorded content, all simultaneously. Recording is only limited by the number of available tuners in the device. The number of programs that can be recorded simultaneously is not affected by the number of active viewing streams.
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Since recordings are stored in MPEG-2, in order to maintain their full quality, and are transcoded each time they are played, this means that the 2 simultaneous stream limit applies to both live and recorded content. Transcoding video is a very CPU intensive process, so due to the need to transcode video in real-time, only two devices may watch content from the Fire TV Recast simultaneously. When viewing content through a Fire TV, the Fire TV Recast may switch to a direct one-to-one WiFi connection between the two devices to bypass your home network if it determines that the direct connection will result in a superior video stream. So, if you’re watching content at home through a Fire TV with a solid connection, you’ll see the maximum resolution and bitrate, but if you’re watching on a spotty mobile connection, the video quality will automatically adjust to keep the stream from dropping. This is the same procedure used by streaming video from services like Prime Video and Netflix. The bitrate and resolution of the transcoded video are adjusted, on the fly, to ensure a highly reliable stream. This is done to ensure compatibility with a wide range of devices, including older Fire TVs that cannot de-interlace 1080i video. When watching content from the Fire TV Recast, whether it’s live or recorded, and regardless of whether you’re watching through a Fire TV, Echo Show, or mobile device, the raw MPEG-2 video files are transcoded to H.264 with a maximum resolution of 1440×720 at 60 frames per second. They all broadcast in either 1080i or 720p. Remember, no US channels broadcast in 1080p. This is important because it means that the full 1920×1080 resolution of channels that broadcast in 1080i is maintained for all recordings. The Fire TV Recast stores all content to its internal hard drive as unprotected raw MPEG-2 video files in their native resolution.
There are some things that we probably won’t learn until the device ships, but through reading Amazon’s lengthy FAQs page and asking Amazon directly, here are details about the codecs and specs of how the Fire TV Recast records video, stores it, and how it’s played back. There are a lot of details we still don’t know about the Fire TV Recast, Amazon’s newly announced over-the-air DVR for Fire TVs that also works with the Echo Show and mobile devices.
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