I have been using the Start TV app on the firestick 4K on one of my tv's now for about a month. Overall it works pretty good but there is one annoying behaviour that ruins the experience a bit.
Turing the TV on and launching the Start TV works good. Picture, guide everything, but the issue is when leaving the Start TV app. First there is no way that I know of to exit the app so I am forced to use the firestick home button(back button will not give me option to leave), which takes me back to Amazon's home screen. That would be fine but if you were to go back into the Start TV app, everything works except the picture? Just a dark screen. You can hear the audio, guide comes up, if you change channels you see the loading status icon, but just no picture :(. I can go into settings->manage applications on the firestick and force stop and clear cache and then go back into the start app and everything is fine again. I reproduced this on 3 tv's, LG 1080p, Vizio 4K & a very old Dynatech(1080p), so i am assuming it is app related.
Steps to re-produce on firetick. Open and start watching TV on the Start TV app. Click 'Home' button to take you back to Amazon's home screen. Go back into the Start TV app and everything works except the picture(just darkness).
First I want to verify with others. Is anyone else experiencing this? If so, just wondering if Start is aware?
On a side note. Do any users with the Nividia Shield experience this and what has the experience been with the Nvidia Shield? As this is also a device I am looking at purchasing.
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