On Tuesday, Amazon announced that it has launched its Adaptive Display feature for more Fire TV devices, including the Fire TV Stick 4K Select and the Fire TV Stick HD. This is Amazon’s new accessibility feature that will make Fire TV much easier for those who don’t have perfect vision.
Adaptive Display is going to intelligently enlarge text, icons, and navigation menus across the Fire TV home screen, settings, and profile areas. This makes it easier to see for those who are older or have less-than-perfect vision. This isn’t like a traditional magnification tool that would stretch or distort images; it instead keeps artwork, thumbnails, and other visual content proportionally scaled. This makes the UI cleaner and more balanced, keeping it easy to navigate.
Amazon’s update and introduction of this feature directly addresses a frequent frustration with modern streaming platforms. This is the fact that these fonts are small, menus are dense, and can be more difficult to read unless you have a 100″ TV (and those are gaining popularity these days).
Families sharing the living room TV will benefit from this feature, as each profile can maintain its preferred display size without affecting the viewing experience of movies, series, or live programming.
The update begins rolling out today
Amazon says that the update with Adaptive Display will begin rolling out today for eligible Fire TV devices, which, as we already mentioned, now includes Fire TV Stick 4K Select and Fire TV Stick HD. These are the less expensive Fire TV Sticks that are typically lower-powered as well.
Adaptive Display should really make a difference for those who don’t have perfect vision, and keep them from needing to squint as much. The update should happen behind-the-scenes, so there shouldn’t be anything that the user needs to do to get Adaptive Display up and running.
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