Computer Monitor Fire Stick

The fire tv stick should work fine plugged directly into a computer monitor but amazon won t let you watch anything copy protected or not.

Computer monitor fire stick.

Your computer monitor is the tv you didn t know you had. With a streaming video player like the chromecast roku streaming stick or amazon fire tv stick you ve got movie night covered. The fire tv stick uses hdcp encryption to copy protect certain forms of content however and some earlier hdmi equipped monitors may not support that standard. The amazon fire stick is a broadcast device which has hdmi output.

Most newer laptops also have hdmi to connect to external monitors so the two should connect and just work right. The amazon fire tv stick is primarily for hours and hours of television goodness but did you know it also allows you to use your tv as a second screen. Mirroring windows 10 to your amazon fire tv. So what stops you from doing this is not a technical issue but a lack of foresight on the part of amazon.