Computer Monitor Fire Stick

The amazon fire stick is a broadcast device which has hdmi output.

Computer monitor fire stick.

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. The amazon fire stick uses hdmi to connect to your tv and stream content to the screen. So what stops you from doing this is not a technical issue but a lack of foresight on the part of amazon. 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.

The fire tv stick uses an hdmi output so a monitor with an hdmi port will accept your fire tv stick without any issues. Your computer monitor is the tv you didn t know you had. Most newer laptops also have hdmi to connect to external monitors so the two should connect and just work right. 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.