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Amazon Fire TV Omni QLED Series (2025)

Year
2025
Software
Fire TV
Screen
QLED
Sizes
50, 55, 65 and 75 inches

Built-in far-field microphone

Has mic

This model has a built-in far-field microphone, which is the hardware hands-free voice control uses.

What a far-field mic does →

Amazon's own official device specification page lists "Mic: Bottom 2x2 Mic Array" for this exact model — confirmed physical microphone hardware in the TV chassis. The same page separately lists "Far-field Alexa control / Hands-free voice control: Supported only through linked Echo device" — meaning the built-in array's wake-word listening is not enabled natively on this generation; genuinely hands-free "Alexa" activation requires pairing the TV with a separate Amazon Echo speaker over the network, similar to what this site found described for some other brands' Fire TV models. "Near-field Alexa control / Mic button on remote: Supported" covers press-to-talk use without an Echo.

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Security vulnerabilities in Fire TV

Supported

This model is still receiving firmware/platform updates.

What that actually means for your TV →

Amazon's Software Security Updates page lists the Amazon Ember QLED Series and Fire TV Omni QLED Series (2025 release) with security updates until at least 31 December 2030, or at least four years from purchase if bought new from Amazon, whichever is later. Amazon says this isn't a guarantee of how long the device will last. Checked 19 Oct 2026.

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Automatic content recognition (ACR), including over HDMI

Has ACR

This model has Amazon's ACR feature (branded "Automatic Content Recognition"), which analyses on-screen content — including over HDMI — to identify what's playing.

What ACR is and how to turn it off →

Amazon's own official Automatic Content Recognition help page describes the feature directly: when enabled, it fingerprints content "through connected devices, such as a cable set-top-box" (not just Amazon's own apps) by sampling audio or pixels and matching against a database, and can be managed at Settings → Preferences → Privacy Settings → Automatic Content Recognition. Amazon's page doesn't state whether it's on by default. Enabling it on one Fire TV device doesn't enable it on others.

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Looks for other devices on your home network

Unverified

Whether this model looks for other devices on your home network hasn't been confirmed from a citable source yet.

How to put a TV on its own network →

No model-specific primary source confirming or ruling out local-network device scanning was found for this model.

Settings for Fire TV

ACR settings: Automatic Content Recognition, Device Usage Data, Collect App Usage Data and Broadcast Live TV Data (UK).

Fire TV shows ads in its own menus. They can't be turned off, but there are settings that change how they're personalised. Source ↗

Fire TV settings guide: ACR and ads on every brand's Fire TV models → It lists them once for every model with this software. Software updates can reset these settings, so check again after an update.

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