Category: Amazon News
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Tablo Is the Most Popular Cord Cutting DVR But The Fire TV Recast is Catching Up
DVRs are a great way to take full advantage of your antenna by accessing all the free content available over the air when and how you want it. We often get asked what the best DVR for cord cutters is, so we decided to take that question to our readers. Last week we asked over…
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Altitude Sports is “Exploring” a Partnership With Amazon After Comcast, DIRECTV, & Dish Dropped The Channel
Recently Comcast, DIRECTV, and Dish all dropped the regional sports network Altitude Sports from their lineup after talks broke down. This means fans of sports in Denver are struggling to find ways to watch their regional sports network coverage of the Nuggets and Avalanche after it decided not to support cord cutting options like PlayStation…
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Most Cord Cutters Plan to Buy a Roku Streaming Player According to a New Survey
The battle for your living room has been heating up. Amazon and Roku have both announced new streaming players coming this fall, so we decided to ask over 4,000 of our readers which streaming players they planned to buy. Most of them said they were planning to buy a Roku device. Roku dominated as the…
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Amazon Event Wrap-Up: What We Did and Didn’t Hear About
This morning, we talked about some of the announcements we were expecting from the Amazon event today. Now that the event is over, we’re back to talk about the new devices and features that were shard and which products were noticeably missing from the lineup. All-new Echo: Featuring an updated fabric design and even better…
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Three New Echo Speakers and New Features Announced by Amazon Today
Amazon is making some big announcements at their big September event today, first up confirming that they’re rolling out new Echo speakers. Dave Limp, senior vice president of Devices took the stage first at the event and announced a new Echo Dot with Clock. “Customers ask Echo over a billion times a year ‘Alexa what…
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Amazon Has New Eero Wifi Devices for a Great Price
Amazon is in the WiFi game, announcing a new Eero mesh router. This is what Amazon had to say about the partnership: Another way to make your smart home simpler is with WiFi — and talking about WiFi, no one is better at this than eero — that’s why we are so excited that eero…
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Amazon Introduces the New Echo Show
Amazon has just announced a new Echo Show. This will add to the current lineup, for three devices in a range of sizes. “Customers love choice,” Amazon says of their growing collection of devices. This device is now available for pre-order at $129. Earlier today, we shared news about Amazon and Discovery’s new channel Food…
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Amazon and Discovery Launch Food Network Kitchen
Amazon is working with Discovery to launch a new channel, Food Network Kitchen. The new channel is expected to launch in the US this month with a cost of $6.99 per month. Viewers will have access to 25 weekly live classes weekly, featuring Food Network chefs, including Bobby Flay, Rachael Ray, Molly Yeh and Alton…
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YouTube TV Now Supports Amazon’s Fire TV Single Sign-On (The Official YouTube TV App is Likely Coming Soon)
Earlier this year Google and Amazon announced that YouTube TV would be coming to the Fire TV this year. No date has been announced as Amazon and Google both just say the app will come sometime this year. Now we have a hint that the official YouTube TV is coming soon as overnight Amazon added…
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Amazon is Announcing New Hardware Today – Here is What You Can Expect
Amazon is hosting an event in Seattle today, where the company is expected to unveil new hardware. While the company is known for keeping news under wraps leading up to major announcements, there has been a lot of speculation about what we might see at the event. We’ve heard rumors that announcements will include new…