Over the years, Netflix has made their streaming apps available across a wide range of devices, including PCs, tablets, smartphones, smart TVs, and many more. Lots of users also use Amazon’s Fire TV devices to watch movies and TV shows on the popular streaming service.
However, an important change is coming soon for those latter users: Starting June 3, 2025, you’ll no longer be able to use Netflix on first-generation Fire TV devices. This includes the Fire TV, the Fire TV Stick, and the Fire TV Stick with Alexa voice remote control. Netflix reportedly informed affected customers by email.
These older Fire TV models first launched on the market back in 2014 and technically haven’t been supported by Amazon for a long time, with zero software or security updates in the past few years. Plus, with those devices having weaker hardware and lesser performance, most affected users will likely have switched to newer models by now.
Nevertheless, if you’re still using a first-generation Fire TV device, you won’t be able to stream Netflix on it starting in June.
It’s not exactly clear why Netflix is ending support for old Fire TV devices, but it could have something to do with Netflix using newer standards—such as the AV1 codec—to stream with better picture quality, particularly for customers who are on the Premium plan.
If you still own a first-generation Fire TV device, you can’t retrofit it to support modern video codecs. You’ll want to upgrade to one of the newer Fire TV models with 4K resolution support—like the Fire TV Stick 4K or the Fire TV Stick 4K Max—and you might even be able to get a discount on it by trading in your outdated model.
This article originally appeared on our sister publication PC-WELT and was translated and localized from German.
