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…
Xiaomi Mi Box 3 Brings 4K, HDR10, New Android OS
Xiaomi this week introduced its next-generation Android TV-based Mi Box S, offering a library of more than 3,000 apps. With Android TV, the Xiaomi Mi Box 3 is a contender of the Nvidia Shield, Google Chromecast dongles, Amazon’s Fire TV adapters and Roku’s popular streaming…
FandangoNOW Adds Android TV To 4K UHD/HDR Devices
The streaming video-on-demand service FandangoNOW said Tuesday that it has started offering 4K Ultra HD titles to users of Android TVs. The announcement comes as the service started offering the box office smash Black Panther for home entertainment viewing in 4K UHD and high dynamic…
Dish Anywhere App Now Brings Satellite TV To Android TV Devices
Dish satellite TV subscribers with a Hopper DVR or connected Sling adapter can now receive the Dish Anywhere service feature on Android TV based products using the free Dish Anywhere App. Dish announced Wednesday that Android TV devices, including many Sony Bravia and some legacy…
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