Amazon provides the new Fire TV Cube (3rd generation) with many interesting features. These include improved upscaling and the passthrough of DTS, DTS-HD and Dolby True HD.
Amazon is currently distributing the latest software version #7.6.1.3 for the new 3rd generation Fire TV Cube. The interesting thing is that Amazon not only improves existing features with the update, but also provides additional reasons to opt for the most powerful Fire TV device to date. First of all, the newly introduced “Super Resolution Upscaling” feature has been revised, which is intended to display content with a resolution lower than 4K UHD in more detail. The new “version” should deliver much better results than when the Fire TV Cube (3rd generation) went on sale. So far, upscaling is an exclusive feature that is only used on the TV Cube.
Fire TV Cube gets DTS, DTS-HD and Dolby True HD
The second feature is primarily of interest to audiophile users. For the first time, a Fire TV device not only supports DTS sound but also the passthrough of uncompressed audio formats such as DTS-HD and Dolby True HD! So far, the Fire TV devices only supported Dolby sound formats, but not in the uncompressed version. That could also be the reason why it’s on Amazon Prime Video so little content with Dolby Atmos 3D sound are. Maybe this will change with this update?
This makes the Fire TV Cube (3rd gen) interesting again for those users who want to use the system primarily as a media player, e.g. with Kodi. We can well imagine that many buyers have opted for competing products such as the Nvidia Shield TV, Shield TV Pro or the Apple TV 4K because they cannot do without the playback of uncompressed audio (including Dolby Atmos or DTS:X). wanted to.
Lossless audio formats for other Fire TV devices too?
Note that with version 7.6.1.3 (PS7613/3686) only the latest Fire TV Cube should be supplied with lossless audio formats for the time being. Unfortunately, it is not yet clear whether other Fire TV devices, such as the popular Fire TV Stick 4K and Fire TV Stick 4K MAX streaming sticks, will also receive DTS-HD and Dolby True HD.