HD Guru Presents Best Of CES Awards To 15 Stunners
CES 2020 was covered wall-to-wall with amazing new products and technologies, but it’s television and home entertainment gear that excites The HD Guru enough to break a deep meditation session to hand out crystal trophies for excellence. This year, the process was no easy exercise…
Major New Smart Home Platform Standard Planned
Anyone interested in purchasing a new TV in part to use as a smart home hub might be interested to learn that Amazon, Apple, Google and the Zigbee Alliance are teaming up in a historically unlikely way to develop a new open standard assuring interoperability…
Amazon Fire TV Blaster Brings Voice Control Via IR
Amazon launched this week its Fire TV Blaster, a new add-on device designed to bring voice control via Alexa-enabled Echo and Fire TV products to more devices. The Fire TV Blaster (which will ship December 11th at a $34.95 retail price) is an IR hub…
Roku, Walmart Unveil `onn’ Brand Soundbar, Subwoofer
Walmart and Roku officially announced Monday the first Roku Smart Soundbar and Roku Wireless Subwoofer to be sold under the discount chain’s new “onn” brand. Similar to the wireless Roku Smart Soundbar and Roku Subwoofer recently introduced by Roku for broad-based retail distribution, the new…
Alexa Will Now Let Users Delete Recorded Commands
Amazon announced at its devices event Wednesday that it has added a new feature to its Alexa cloud-based AI voice control platform enabling users to auto-delete their spoken commands from the system database, as a gesture to assuage the fears of those concerned with their…
Report: Digital Assistants Driving Smart Homes
Own a smart TV with built-in AI voice control or a digital assistant like an Amazon Echo or Google Home capable of operating a network of smart home devices? You’ve got a lot of company. Thanks to voice-control smart devices like Google Home and Amazon’s…
Yamaha Adds Pair Of Affordable HTiB Systems
Yamaha announced this week a pair of home theater in a box (HTiB) solutions designed to simplify the cost and setup of a 5.1-channel surround sound experience in the home. The Yamaha HTiB models YHT-5950U ($599.99 suggested retail) and YHT-4950U ($499.95) will be available in…
Alexa Coming To LG ThinQ AI TVs Via Firmware Update
LG Electronics (LG) is preparing to soon roll out support for Amazon Alexa artificial intelligence (AI) voice control to 2019 ThinQ AI televisions sold in 14 countries, including the United States, the company announced Wednesday night. The new firmware update that will add the feature…
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