Amazon Fire TV Stick is finally getting this missing app

Amazon Burn down TV Stick is finally getting this missing app

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This calendar month, the Amazon Fire Television Stick (and Cube, also) will finally fill the gap on i of its well-nigh curiously missing applications. That's Vudu, the movies and Television set streaming app formerly owned by Walmart which was sold to NBCUniversal's Fandango in 2020.

With its arrival, Vudu opens up another manner to buy and rent digital movies and TV shows on Amazon. Vudu'south library of more than 150,000 movies and shows includes more x,000 free titles likewise.

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The Vudu app may not be available on your Burn down TV device at the moment, as the app is having one of those staggered rollouts. Cheque dorsum later this month if you don't run into it when searching Vudu.

When we checked how Roku and Fire TV stacked up on missing apps, Vudu was one of the two notable missing services on the latter. Fire TV nonetheless lacks Peacock (which launched nationwide in July 2020). Peacock's lack of a Fire TV app volition be more glaring in the coming months, equally the WWE Network disappears in the U.s. equally its content gets vaccumed upwardly into Peacock.

While Vudu isn't one of the titans of the video on demand streaming services market, it did experience "double-digit growth in new accounts in 2020 year over year," co-ordinate to the press release announcing its arrival.

The gratuitous movies and shows Vudu offers will help Fire TV owners get more choices for what to watch without paying. Plus, anyone who ever bought something on Vudu on a different device will now get those purchases unlocked.

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Henry is a senior editor at Tom's Guide covering streaming media, laptops and all things Apple tree, reviewing devices and services for the by six-plus years. Prior to joining Tom's Guide, he reviewed software and hardware for TechRadar Pro, and interviewed artists for Patek Philippe International Magazine. He'south too covered the wild earth of professional wrestling for Cageside Seats, interviewing athletes and other industry veterans.