Fire TV Stick HD at £23.99 — 60% off at Amazon

Amazon has the newest-generation Fire TV Stick HD at £23.99, down from a listed £59.99 — 60% off. That is today’s biggest percentage drop on the board, and a cut large enough to be worth a look before Amazon walks it back.

The stick is Amazon’s cheap HDMI streamer: plug it into a free HDMI socket, power it from the supplied adaptor, and you get Full HD apps plus a voice remote. It is HD, not 4K. If the telly is 1080p, or you mainly watch BBC iPlayer, ITVX, Netflix and YouTube in HD, that is the right spec. If you have a 4K set and pay for 4K catalogues, this is the wrong stick.

Judge the money, not the splashy percentage. £23.99 versus £59.99 is what Amazon is showing today. Fire TV “was” prices do wander, so treat £59.99 as the ticket on this listing, not proof you ever paid sixty quid. Even so, just under twenty-four pounds for a working HDMI stick is cheap enough that the deal still holds if you actually need one.

Quick caveats: you need a spare HDMI port and somewhere to plug the USB power adaptor. The listing is the newest HD generation — check the deal page rather than last year’s photos. Prime Video is first-class on it; other apps are there, but you live in Amazon’s launcher.

If a dying smart-TV platform has been on the to-do list, this is a low-risk punt. Live price and full details are on the Fire TV Stick HD deal.