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If you happen to’ve been utilizing a Fire TV system for some time, like a Fire TV Stick, then you definitely’re most likely accustomed to Amazon altering the structure of the house display screen from time to time — generally a lot to the annoyance of its customers.

Late final 12 months, Amazon started testing a brand new house display screen structure with a small subset of customers, which modified the navigation bar, eradicating your most visited streaming apps from it and inserting them additional down the house display screen as a substitute (through AFTV News). This might make it a bit extra difficult to get to your favourite streaming apps shortly.

This new house display screen structure was first seen in November of final 12 months, and never a lot has been heard about it since — till now. A Redditor recently posted about their first-generation Hearth TV Stick 4K receiving a brand new house display screen structure, which is similar to the one seen being examined final 12 months. It does not seem that this new house display screen has been rolled out broadly, which suggests Amazon is probably going once more testing it with a small group of customers.

In response to AFTV News, Amazon typically conducts small exams like this to gauge person reactions, so it is attainable it’s as soon as once more contemplating adopting this new structure for all customers. You may take a look at the unique Reddit put up beneath.

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With this new house display screen replace, your high streaming apps are moved from the higher navigation menu to a decrease place on the house display screen, previous a row of steered content material (as seen within the picture above).

Together with your high streaming providers moved decrease down, the navigation menu now has ample clean house to the best, suggesting Amazon may have plans so as to add extra navigation shortcuts, or worse, extra advertisements. Presently, the navigation bar consists of the house display screen button, search icon, dwell TV, video games, and My Stuff (your watchlist, purchases, leases, and extra).

Consumer reactions to the Hearth TV house display screen structure are, up to now, fairly detrimental, based mostly on responses on Reddit. One Redditor referred to as the design “dreadful” and stated that “the helpful stuff that you really want just isn’t barely seen in comparison with all of the suggestions that are simply de facto ads.” One other Redditor referred to the replace as making the Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K the “Amazon Commercial Stick 4K.”

One other Reddit remark I noticed states, “I might truly be type of okay with all of this if the apps row have been the highest row.” I agree with this, and I might be extra comfy with this variation if it meant I did not must navigate previous a row of content material I do not care about to succeed in my high streaming apps. This new house display screen structure continues to be in testing, so it could not ever be rolled out broadly. Based mostly on person reactions on-line, Amazon would possibly wish to take into account taking this one again to the drafting board.

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