Picture Qualityįor anyone who follows TVs a bit, you may be interested to know that I’m pretty sure the Amazon Fire TV Omni QLED basically is a TCL 5-Series running Amazon Fire TV OS. This is a great feature for really bright TVs, but as I’ll soon explain, it’s not all that helpful for the Fire TV Omni QLED. These are picture modes that are meant to adjust the brightness curve based on how much light is in your room - brighter in a bright room, and slightly easier on the eyes in dimmer conditions. Of course, that sensor isn’t just for figuring out whether the room is occupied or vacant, it’s also what allows Amazon to slap the Dolby Vision IQ and HDR10 Adaptive badges on the box. The TV will shut down the screen and sit in power-saving mode when it detects nobody is in the room (and/or when the lights have been turned off, if you choose that option), and then pop back into art mode when someone walks into view. This is probably the best use of a room sensor I’ve seen yet and one that will cut down on wasted electricity use. The Fire TV Omni QLED doesn’t pull off art mode as convincingly as, say, Samsung’s The Frame TV.įrankly, it’s the auto-off/on feature that integrates with the art mode that I like best. I think this ambient mode probably will play well with customers, though it’s really just a screensaver until you factor in the widgets, which are handy to have. You can have daily reminders, calendar entries, sticky notes, weather updates, or news headlines pinned to the bottom of the art mode screen for at-a-glance information. There also are widgets available in the art mode as well. One notable new addition this year is the ambient mode (which Amazon calls Ambient Experience) and the automatic on/off features I mentioned earlier. It’s designed to be a powerful smart home hub, not just an entertainment hub. If you aren’t, though, a switch on the TV disables the built-in microphone.Īnd if you add a webcam, you can use the TV for video calls. Or don’t, you can have the TV always listen for you to give the command if you’re comfortable with that. (Ring is, of course, owned by Amazon.) Want to control your smart home thermostat? (Amazon owns one of those, too.) Just grab your remote. Your Ring security cameras, for instance, are instantly visible on a Fire TV device. Now think of Amazon’s ecosystem outside of home entertainment. Just place the IR blaster in sight of your other home entertainment equipment and you can control an A/V receiver, cable box, Blu-ray player, you name it - a lot like the new Fire TV cube, actually. For instance: You can control other devices with the TV using voice control because it includes IR blaster, and it utilizes HDMI CEC effectively. But the functionality keeps going from there. Anything you can do with an Amazon Echo speaker, you can do with this TV, sure. In fact, Amazon’s voice assistant really is at the heart of the Omni QLED and its appeal. Everything else takes a back seat, and, yes, that includes Siri. And as voice assistants go, Amazon’s Alexa can only be matched by the Google Assistant. I like a smart TV interface that moves as quickly as I can click a remote, and the Fire TV Omni QLED absolutely does that. There’s virtually no lag between clicking a button on the remote and the corresponding action on the TV.
One of the best things about the Fire TV Omni QLED is that it runs Fire TV OS effortlessly. Amazon’s voice assistant is really at the heart of the Omni QLED.
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