welcome back to the court Kirsten nooks
tech lab today over to take a look at
ten free fire TV apps for the fire TV
now these are free apps so that you may
know about or you may not but with
millions of new fire TV owners in the
new fire TV 4k stick come out next week
that's probably bringing a ton of new
owners to the fire TV I thought this be
a great chance to show off why I think
are some essential free fire TV apps
that everybody should try at least once
I really think adds something to the
fire TV now these are in no particular
order so don't take anything from the
aura I show them in I think they're all
great fire TV apps on their own first up
is blue TV now this has been around for
some time it's often list is our best
free app when we do surveys includes a
bunch of live and on-demand content so
you do have the live linear channels
here or show off like movies and
different categories like documentaries
comedy drama it also has news platforms
on here like CNN poem CBS is 24/7 news
feed here ABC CB CNBC excuse me which
are not live unlike CBS News and a
couple others these take recent news
stories and put them all together in a
continuous stream from their clips other
ones like Sky News from Europe is live
Bloomberg is live and more usually even
have sports coverage here like Fox
Sports again not live but all the
current videos from today put together
other ones like stadium which is a live
24 seven feet of shows here and this
goes on and on boxing poker comedy
gaming geek culture anime Tecla from
Cena and more and it just goes on and
that's the live stuff where you can just
turn in let play they also have
on-demand content that includes stuff
like The Matrix Blade Runner Batman
Forever TV shows like Hell's Kitchen
Kitchen Nightmares unsolved mystery
storage wars and more so they really do
a nice job of bringing together a ton of
content from all over the web in one
spot for free and even if you don't
think you're gonna use that a lot just
having an ability there is really nice I
think you get a lot from it next up is
twitch now you may know twitch it's an
amazon own streaming service now as a
gaming service
it has all this gaming people playing
video games I don't wanna watch that
increasingly they're watching other
content Stadium for example has just
announced that they're going to start a
weekly show where they're gonna play
classic ACC football games on here with
commentary from people who were in the
game we're very familiar with it you can
follow along they've done stuff series
like Mister Rogers neighborhood they've
done all that Power Rangers of classic
Doctor Who bill Ross all the painter all
kinds of content from him and here and
of course it still has a ton of video
game related content
here's a cooking show right there and
more um there are comedy stuff in here
one the over there comedy networks is
bringing their comment comedy content to
twitch they also bring Thursday night
you know if I'll football out here for
free from Amazon it's part of their deal
II don't need to be an Amazon Prime
member to watch Thursday if I'll
football on Twitch so it really is a
great option there they did like for
instance the Presidential Debates
recently
we're streamed down there for free and
what's amazingly good quality so keep
that in your your back pocket cuz
increasingly there's just a lot of weird
content going on there Power Rangers to
UM stuff like classic Doctor Who
next up is weather nation so we're in
the milp hurricane season there's
already been a couple big hurricanes in
the United States even if you're not
being who ever weather buff I should say
how it would keep weather nation on here
so it is a free 24/7 weather network and
when you first launched it you get this
kind of bead here it shows you current
tab you can see monthly forecasts
on-demand radar but you can also click
on here and go fullscreen into this 24/7
live feed of weather I'm not gonna click
on it too long because I don't want a
complaint to come down to say I was a
copywriting their content but it is a
great 24/7 home feed or weather when the
Hurricanes happen they had people on the
scene it's a great replacement for the
Weather Channel
if you're looking for that highly
recommended and for the same reason will
recommend c-b-s news now there's other
ones like Pluto but if you don't want to
get Pluto I would still put CBS News on
your fire TV because you never know when
there's big news events so you get this
24/7 live feed
you'd pull down you can get all kinds of
additional stories if you want to go
back and look in like hey I want to look
at all something both Australian to
Mississippi animates escape and you can
click on just get that story can I'm not
going and then if you hit back you can
go a little bit more in-depth and get
more stories and details about it they
also now have a CBS works version of
this which will also just play news and
sports clips about sports not live
sports but it's all the recaps the
sports clips everything they do a really
good job at it I would recommend you
check that out on there so CBS News
again even if you're not a sport or news
fan it's a great way that if there is a
major news event happening that you can
be aware of it and get your hand hands
on some current live news to be
up-to-date on what's happening in the
world next up is movies anywhere now
this is not necessarily free service
because you have to buy the content
somewhere to get access to it but what
it does is it allows you to access your
videos and movies from all kinds of
different places apparently I'm not
logged in but the idea here is you
create a free account and then can sync
your content from iTunes Amazon video
Google Play Vudu Fandango Microsoft TV
and movies and have it all in one spot
which is really great so now you'd say
hey I have this stuff that's on iTunes I
have this stuff that is on Google Play
or Vudu because it was a special deal or
a sale and I took advantage of it with
movies anywhere you can have in one spot
now not all movies and TV or all movies
I should say will it be included but
they're doing a really good job of
getting more and more movies included
with this I love the idea that all my
movies can be in one spot for the most
part Disney and all kinds of others are
a part of this deal so you can access it
right there
so moving anywhere used to call Disney
movies anywhere and now it's just movies
anywhere highly recommend it especially
if you used to be a Google Play or an
Apple TV owner and you want to take your
stuff over to the fire TV next up is an
example of what I think you should look
for now this is one of my local TV
stations Central Texas news now most TVs
markets now have one or
more of their TV stations that offer an
app on the fire TV and it allows you to
do things like watch replays live news
or replace the current news you can go
in here and you can get weather and you
can get um anytime you want it live
weather recap on here of course it's
going to show me down demand stuff by if
I click over here I guess or a live
right now so I may just be showing a
live feed but often if they're not alive
you'll get a little like 5 or 10 minute
recap of local weather here we go so
here's like a recap of my weather each
time I watch it I can do that I can see
others there's also a news tap so I can
go up here and re-watch past on news
brief
airings if it's not live right now I'm
going here look at current stories about
different things high school football
and so forth so highly recommend you
check this out if you have it search for
your local all news TV stations often
have to do their call hours where you
may just think of as ABC 25 and where
you live you may have to ensure like in
Minecraft it's www OD for the ABC
station Grand Rapids you have to search
for that so I would recommend you add
your local news you never know when it's
great I do love it because then I'll
have to worry about watching news when
it's live I can't just go on here and
get the replay whatever I want it next
up is Sony crackle now if you love free
movies and TV shows I'm gonna show off a
couple services here to do that we
already show Pluto TV but so many
crackle is another one it's owned by
Sony so of course you can get a ton of
the Sony content and it's a humper set
free they will try to make you think you
need an account you don't you can this
little skip button right down there you
can click on that to go over and not
create an account if you create an
account though you can do things like
save your progress come back to a watch
on multiple devices and it tracks what
you've already watched and has a lot of
good content in here Ocean's eleven the
original Ghostbusters alphas uprising
and they have a lot of horror Halloween
content right now I need a lot of
big-name movies and TV shows that you
would expect so I would definitely
encourage you to check out Sony crackle
see here right yeah yep there you go I
wanna leave that I highly recommend that
you check it out that it does have a ton
of different content on it that is free
it also rotates a lot of Seinfeld
content on there every month there's new
Seinfeld episodes perfect if you don't
want pay for Seinfeld you're not willing
to buy a season of ever get Hulu you can
always come here watching free episodes
as you clean the house do some paper at
whatever the other free service here I
want to show off is to be now this is
just like something crackle partners of
paramount all kinds other places they
say they have the largest catalog of
free movies TV shows you can see they
have the original Titanic movie les
Castle Conan the Barbarian all kinds are
really well-known movies and TV shows
even classics like platoon you're
something most popular of course
Halloween is almost here so you can see
a lot of Halloween related movies
zookeeper let's go horror again
Halloween comedy movies not Netflix
which is kind of cool they have a whole
category here stuff you won't find that
looks like yours mine ours School of
Rock Titanic and more um where is the TV
shows okay maybe it's over here they
have things like family movies and more
they do have a lot of TV shows included
with it and it's a really great
collection highly recommend you check
out to be again you can create a free
account which will allow you to do
things like start watching here and
finish on another one but to be TV is a
great option now how they recommend you
check out next one is a free service
this one's hoopla there's another one
like it called canopy I'm gonna
demonstrate Hoople here and what you
have to do is log in it's not it's free
but you need a public library card to
use it most public libraries either
offer hoopla or canopy what they allow
you to do is to watch movies and TV
shows through it one half percent free
on it that you can get access to
everything you want with um from your
Public Library streaming on your fire TV
so hoopla's got a lot Disney content
Nickelodeon TV shows canopy has a ton of
other content with it oh it also gives
you access to things like ebooks and
audiobooks and music through other
devices
hoopla has a
um Amazon echo skill where you can
listen to your music and through there
but with this if you have a library card
you're able to borrow content watch it
on the fire TV highly recommend you do
this if you're not using your Public
Library you should your Public Library
is a great resource not only do they
have streaming services like Koopa and
canopy of course they have CDs and DVDs
and more you can walk in there and pick
it up really good deal on that and 100
percent free so check out hoopla
canopies the other one to use it though
go to your local public library your tax
dollars are pay for it
say hey I heard you may have a streaming
service often they talk about on their
website you check out the website and
they'll say yeah we use canopy we use
hoopla maybe they have a different one I
don't know about and they'll walk you
through how you take your card you link
it to that service and then you can
borrow movies and TV shows so our limits
on it you can't just access everything
like Netflix but you can get 10 or so
movies that you can stream at any given
time audiobooks songs anymore next up is
the last one and this is again kind of a
category this is iHeartRadio there are
others like tune in and more Spotify
Amazon music I think Spotify is on here
don't count me on that but there's all
tons of streaming music services on here
and often if you're like me the best
sound system in your house is the one
connected to your TV so if you want to
have a really good at home
party music often I like to use these
whether it be Amazon music Spotify
Pandora and more where I can go in here
and straight music and then it kind of
cool because it shows you what song is
playing so no one asking what song is
that
and then it's all right there through
your sound system as people are over you
clean the house or enjoying some time
with friends and family
so there are my top 10 fire TV apps that
every new fire TV owner should have now
this is my list I'll love to hear from
you what you think of these apps leave
me a comment let me know what ones you
would suggest from the official fire TV
store which one these are your favorite
are you new to fire TV has this helped
you finding something new to try out
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