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Element Amazon TVs Start to Ship – What Happens to Seiki?

by Bob Raikes

The Tong Fang-owned Element brand has launched the Amazon Fire-based UltraHD TVs that it showed at CES this year. There will be 43″ ($449), 50″ ($549), 55″ ($649) and 65″ ($899) models and they …

Tags:Amazon| Large Display Monitor| TVs (TV Sets)| USA| Vol 24 - Issue 19

Amazon Echo Show Announced

by Bob Raikes

Amazon has released the Amazon Echo Show which is a new form factor device (compared to the Echo and Echo Dot) that includes a 7″ diagonal touch screen (of unstated resolution). The device has …

Tags:Amazon| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 19

Amazon Video app Coming to Apple TV This Summer?

by Alan Spencer

According to a report by Recode, the Amazon video app will be supported by Apple TV this summer. Apple TV has Netflix, HBO, YouTube, and most other global and local apps but not Amazon …

Tags:Amazon| Apple| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OTT Video| Vol 24 - Issue 18

Amazon FreeTime Now Available in Google Play Store

by Alan Spencer

Amazon has added its FreeTime app to Google Play so now children can access books, videos, YouTube videos, and websites on an Android mobile phone or tablet. The basic service is free. FreeTime Unlimited …

Tags:Amazon| Mobile Display Monitor| OTT Video| Vol 24 - Issue 18

Amazon Echo Look Introduced

by Alan Spencer

Amazon in the US has released a new addition to its Echo range, called the Amazon Echo Look, which is a new Alexa-controlled selfie camera which will actually act as a style assistant. The …

Tags:Amazon| Back Panel| Large Display Monitor| Voice Input| Vol 24 - Issue 16

Samsung and Amazon Video to Rollout HDR10+ Video

by Chris Chinnock

What is HDR10+, you ask? It is the HDR10 standard augmented with dynamic metadata. In this case, Samsung’s dynamic metadata format as approved in SMPTE ST-2094-40. Three other methods for adding dynamic metadata to …

Tags:Amazon| Dolby Vision| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Vol 24 - Issue 16

Samsung and Amazon Propose HDR10+

by Bob Raikes

Samsung and Amazon Video have announced a development of the HDR10 specification to HDR10+ which will add dynamic metadata to the base HDR10 approach. The metadata can be supplied at a frame-by-frame or scene-by-scene …

Tags:Amazon| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Vol 24 - Issue 15

Amazon Offers its Smart Speakers in Battle with Google Home

by Alan Spencer

Amazon has started offering select manufacturers free use of its smart speaker microphone technologies as part of its efforts to spread the use of its Alexa virtual assistant. The move is in response to …

Tags:Amazon| Google| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Voice Input| Vol 24 - Issue 15

New Amazon Device Between Stick and STB

by Bob Raikes

AFTVNews has said that Amazon is to introduce a new UltraHD HDR streaming STB that would sit between the current Fire Stick product at the low end and the current Fire TV box. It …

Tags:Amazon| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| Streaming Dongles| UltraHD| Vol 24 - Issue 12

4KUNIVERSE Selects Accedo for 4K SVOD on Amazon Fire TV

by Milos Pavlovic

4KUNIVERSE, the first 24/7 4K Ultra HD general entertainment channel in North America, today announced the launch of its 4K Subscription Video On Demand (SVOD) service on Amazon Fire TV, created and powered by …

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Waipu.tv Enabled on Amazon Fire TV

by Alan Spencer

German IPTV operator Exaring, has enabled its TV platform, to be available on the Amazon Fire TV box and stick. Subscribers watching waipu.tv on their smartphones can also use a swiping motion on their …

Tags:4k| Amazon| Germany| Large Display Monitor| OTT Video| UltraHD| Vol 24 - Issue 11