Plex on Amazon's New Fire TV Cube

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With the release of the Amazon Fire TV Cube around the corner I was wondering a couple of things:

A) Has there been an app developed for it yet?
B) Will it allow Direct Play?
C) Will it support Dolby Vision, HDR, HDR10+ and Dolby Atmos as the device does?

Thanks.

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Wouldn’t it just run the same Plex app the original Fire TV Cube has had since 2018? I imagine it would support the same codecs the Fire Stick 4K does.

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I don’t think so because the 4K stick doesn’t support things like Dolby Vision so wouldn’t the app need to be updated to support this also?

This is why I’m looking into it. At the moment I don’t think there’s a device out there that supports all the following:
Dolby Vision
Dolby Atmos
HDR 10
HDR 10+

On the ALL the streaming services:
Plex (With Direct Play)
Netflix
Prime Video

As soon as there’s a device that has enough power behind it and supports all the latest formats I’ll be buying 3 of them. That’s why i’m wondering about the new Cube TV. It seems to support everything but I’m not sure if the apps will utilise them also?

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We won’t know the new Cube’s capabilities until Amazon updates the device specifications:
https://developer.amazon.com/docs/fire-tv/device-specifications.html

Regarding Atmos, note that none of the current Amazon Fire TV devices support TrueHD + Atmos, the version found on Blu-ray discs, as they do not support TrueHD audio (neither do they support dts). They do support EAC3 + Atmos, aka “Streaming Atmos,” as it is used by Netflix, Prime Video, Apple, etc streaming services.

It would be great if Amazon decided to license TrueHD + Atmos and dts/-HD/:X. Currently, the only off the shelf box that bitstreams TrueHD & TrueHD + Atmos is the Nvidia Shield. Unfortunately, it is HDR 10 only.

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Yeah I understand that and i’m not expecting to them to support true atmos, a compressed version is fine for streaming.

However, as you said it does support (HDMI 2.0a) EAC3 and we know it supports HDR, HDR10+, Dolby Vision, Dolby Atmos etc… as specified here:

So if we know the devices supports the specs, is it not just a case of Plex building their app to utilise those features?

Cheers.

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So how should Plex handle a TrueHD + Atmos audio stream? Or dts/dts-HD/dts:X?

If the new Cube has the same audio capabilities as the current 4K stick, it cannot bitstream those audio codecs to the attached TV/soundbar/AVR/etc.

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I don’t know? I’m clearly not an expert in these matters…

I just want to be able to play Plex, Netflix and Prime Video on a single device that supports all of the aforementioned formats so I don’t have to swap to Prime on 1 device to watch something HDR10+, the Xbox One S on another so I can enjoy Plex with Atmos and so on with Plex.

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Unfortunately that does not exist today.

We’ll know more about the new Cube once it ships.

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okay, cheers

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