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Topics: Amazon Prime, TV and Film
Lucy Devine
Amazon Fire Stick owners are being encouraged to make a few tiny changes in order to get the best out of their devices.
Just a couple of simple alterations could result in a better picture quality on your Fire Stick - and it's so easy to check the settings yourself at home.
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From The Traitors to American Nightmare and ITV drama, After The Flood, there's been heaps of brilliant telly releases over the last few weeks.
And who wouldn't want to catch up with all their favourite shows with an even better picture quality?
According to The Sun, there's one setting on your Fire Stick that could be leaving you with a poorer picture quality.
It's super easy to check the settings - and change them if you need to.
It's all to do with HDR, which stands for High Dynamic Range - aka the range of light and dark tones on screen. HDR content has a much improved contrast, meaning visually, your shows will appear brighter and with a vast range of colours.
To check if your Fire Stick is capable of displaying HDR, you'll need to make sure that it fully supports the feature.
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To do this, switch on your Fire Stick and head over to Settings. Next, choose Display & Sounds, followed by Audio/Video Diagnostics.
From here, you'll be able to see whether HDR is available on your device.
It's also worth heading to your telly's settings just to check that it's configured to 4K or HDR.
Now, even if your telly supports HDR, you might run into another issue.
If the show you're watching isn't available in HDR then you'll have to watch it in the format available.
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You should easily be able to check this however, by simply reading the description under the specific piece of content. Usually, it will state if the show is available in HDR.
Amazon Prime Video recently revealed that a huge change is coming in 2024.
The streamer is following in the footsteps of Netflix and will be introducing an ad-supported tier.
Customers in the UK and Germany will have to splash out an additional £2.99 a month to enjoy their favourite TV shows and films without adverts from 5 February, 2024.
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Those in the US and Canada will be seeing ads a lot sooner as they will come into force from 29 January.
With customers having to pay to watch ad-free, there's even more reason to make sure you're watching in the best quality!