With Amazon’s Fire TV Stick 4K, Alexa is in charge but not a control freak

While set-top boxes aren’t going away anytime soon, streaming sticks (aka dongles) increasingly offer some of the best value and performance in streaming land. Case in point: Roku’s fabulous Streaming Stick Plus ($60) is easily one of our favorite streamers available, packing 4K HDR, a speedy processor, and a handy, point-anywhere remote, all running on Roku’s intuitive operating system. Not to be outdone, Amazon released its own loaded streaming stick, the Fire TV Stick 4K.

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