Amazon Unveils Latest Flagship “Omni” Fire TV With QLED Color Enhancement
Highlighting a slew of smart speakers, home networking solutions and other smart gadgets Amazon introduced in a virtual press conference Wednesday was its flagship “Omni” house brand Fire TV series featuring 4K QLED (quantum dot) color enhanced Full Array LED backlighting and intelligently operated “Ambient…
Amazon Unveils `Alexa Game Control’ For Spoken Interaction With PC, Console Games
Amazon said it is making tools available to developers to build engaging voice interactions powered by Alexa into new gaming experiences. Alexa Game Control will bring gamers in-game actions such as interacting with non-player characters (NPCs), swapping weapons and other actions using thei voices in…
Toshiba Unveils Flagship M550 4K LED-LCD Fire TV Series
The Toshiba TV brand is back with a new flagship full-array 4K LED-LCD TV series marketed by Amazon for value-focused Fire TV enthusiasts. The once prominent Japan-based TV manufacturer, which is now licensed under the control of China-based TV maker Hisense, introduced Monday the availability…
New B&W Zeppelin Smart Speaker Arrives With High-Resolution Sound
Renowned U.K.-speaker manufacture Bowers & Wilkins is now selling its newest Zeppelin smart speaker offering more detailed high-resolution sound with expanded smart capabilities. The new B&W Zeppelin is available now at a $799.99 suggested retail price, supporting a wide range of popular streaming services using…
LG Updates webOS With Alexa AI Voice Control In Third-Party TV Brands
LG announced Tuesday that it has extended support for Amazon Alexa voice control to third-party TV brands using its webOS smart TV operating system. The popular AI voice control platform has been available in LG TVs using newer versions of webOS but now it will…
The Roku Channel Comes To Fire TV
Owners of FireTV devices will find they now have access to Roku’s, The Roku Channel app, on rival Amazon’s streaming TV platform, offering viewers access to a large library of free ad-supported TV programs and movies. Roku announced the the update in a blog last…
Amazon Adds Fire TV Sticks, Echo Speakers, Home Drone
Amazon unveiled Thursday its latest generation of Fire TV media streamers, new Alexa capabilities and a surprise cloud-based video gaming platform called Luna as part of its 2020 product lineup. The extensive introduction, made prior to the new Prime Day coming Oct. 13th and in…
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…
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