Review: Nvidia Shield TV Streams Brilliant 4K/HDR
Last week we received the new standard (tubular design) Nvidia Shield TV streaming media player based on the Android TV OS and what we found was a slick, speedy performer with lots of apps supporting native 4K/HDR content, a fantastic remote, great gaming responsiveness and…
Disney+ Hits Samsung, LG, Roku, Android TVs & More
As promised, the Disney+ streaming service launched today offering a compelling selection of PG-13 or softer original and library content from the company’s significant collection of content assets. And from our brief experience this morning signing up with the Verizon one-year-free service offer and activating…
Philips 24″ Kitchen TV With Google Assistant Hits Retail
Funai Corp., which licenses the Philips TV brand for North America, said today that its 2019 Philips 24-inch Android TV optimized for hands-free use in the kitchen is now available at retail partners across the country. The Philips 24-inch Kitchen Android TV ($299.99 suggested retail)…
Amazon, Google Officially End Streaming Conflict
Amazon and Google each issued blogs Tuesday announcing the official end (or at least a cease fire) to their long-running conflict that has kept the Amazon Prime streaming app off of Chromecast devices and certain Android TVs and Google’s YouTube app off of Amazon Fire…
New Alexa App Adds To Sony Android TV Features
Sony said that starting today (Wednesday ) many of its Android TVs in the United States will be the first to offer expanded smart capabilities and functionality with Alexa through the new Amazon Alexa Music, Camera and TV Control app. The electronics company said that…
Review: Hisense 55H8F Elevates 4K HDR At A Value
The Hisense H8 series has been one of our favorite value 4K TV lines for the past few years, and we are pleased to say the 2019 version is better than ever. We found the television series to have impressive picture quality in both standard…
Amazon, Google End Streaming App War
From the Hell freezes over department: Users of Fire TV adapters and Fire TV televisions will finally be getting access to the YouTube and YouTube Kids streaming apps without having to go to any additional devices or streaming platforms. And turnaround is fair play: users…
Funai 4K Android TVs Add Google Assistant AI
Funai introduced Wednesday its first Philips-branded 4K Ultra HD LED-LCD TV series incorporating both the Android TV smart TV platform and built-in Google Assistant AI voice control The Philips 4K Android TVs, which will be presented at next week’s CES 2019 in its Renaissance Hotel…
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