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Amazon Fire TV Omni QLED Series

ZDNET's cardinal takeaways

• The Fire TV Omni QLED Series is 1 of Amazon's latest astute televisions, starting astatine $429 for the 50-inch.
• I tested the 65-inch model, which costs $850 and features a gorgeous image, hands-free Alexa+, and Amazon's Ambient Experience.
• I privation it had a distant finder.

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Amazon released aggregate caller devices astatine the extremity of this year, including a Fire TV Omni QLED Series, which I've been investigating for implicit a period now. I've utilized the 65-inch exemplary of this astute TV arsenic our family's main television, and it's been a immense upgrade from my four-year-old LG TV. 

Granted, that TV was an entry-level UN7000 with 4K resolution, truthful it wasn't a QLED sheet by immoderate means. It acceptable maine backmost $500 successful 2021, but today, you tin get a acold superior 55-inch Omni QLED Series TV for $530. 

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Although this is simply a testament to however overmuch much affordable televisions person go implicit the past 4 years, I'm not definite if I would person bought a Fire TV implicit an LG backmost past -- astatine slightest not until I had tested it. 

The Fire TV Omni QLED Series is the 3rd Fire TV I've used; I person a 50-inch Series 4 Fire TV and a 43-inch Omni Series. I got some of these for $100 each during Amazon Prime Day income events, truthful they were comparatively low-risk purchases astatine the time. I installed that Omni Series Fire TV successful my bedroom, and it proved to beryllium acold superior to my erstwhile aged Westinghouse TV, but the latest Omni QLED Series is adjacent much impressive.

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This Fire TV's representation delivers connected the promises Amazon makes for its representation quality. The representation is truthful crisp and elaborate that it outshines low-quality videos, boasting lifelike colors and HDR10+ Adaptive support. 

The QLED sheet produces realistically contrasts, arsenic good arsenic heavy blacks and crisp whites, acknowledgment to its full-array section dimming technology. 

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The TV has bladed bezels, astir a centimeter oregon less, to marque the show the main lawsuit astatine each times, whether it's successful usage oregon not. When it's off, it features Amazon's Ambient Experience, displaying artwork oregon your ain images. 

Making it adjacent smarter, the Fire TV Omni QLED Series besides supports Omnisense, a caller exertion that uses sensors to aftermath the show erstwhile idiosyncratic enters the room. Whether oregon not you take to usage this is up to you. 

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The TV besides supports Dolby Audio for affluent sounds, but you tin link outer speakers and soundbars via the integer Audio Port oregon Bluetooth. I've tested excavation with 2 HomePod minis and a Sonos Era 300, some separately and unneurotic for a fuller audio experience, and haven't been the slightest spot disappointed. 

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As portion of the Omni Series of Fire TVs, this caller astute TV besides features Alexa+ built-in. You tin not lone usage Alexa hands-free to power your TV and compatible astute devices, but besides to inquire mode much of it than you would of your emblematic virtual assistant. Thanks to generative AI, you tin inquire Alexa+ not lone to find a movie for you, but to explicate the theme, springiness you circumstantial genre suggestions with 1 of the actors, and past inquire it to make a look for a movie-time snack with what you person successful your pantry.

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The lone diagnostic I privation this TV had was a mode to find the distant control, which is lone disposable connected the Alexa Voice Remote Pro, sold separately for $35. The TV comes with the Fire TV Alexa Voice Remote Enhanced, which you tin besides usage to pass with Alexa by pressing the microphone button; however, it doesn't let you to find it erstwhile lost.

ZDNET's buying advice

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Available for $850, the latest 65-inch Omni QLED Series is the perfect prime for buyers seeking a midrange TV with a hands-free, generative AI virtual adjunct that delivers a amazingly charismatic representation and snappy processing power. 

The Fire TV Omni QLED Series features a quad-core processor, resulting successful reliable responsiveness during navigation -- It's decidedly the fastest Fire TV I person astatine home, including streaming devices. After utilizing the Omni QLED Series TV for implicit a month, I haven't experienced a azygous bug oregon glitch during navigation, which is thing I can't accidental has happened with different astute TVs and streaming devices.