Tag: Amazon
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Amazon Adds Whole Home Streaming to Alexa Devices
Since Amazon’s Echo powered by Alex launched people have been dreaming about the ability to stream their audio to multiple devices at once. Now Amazon has made that a reality with their Multi-Room Music feature for Amazon Alexa. Here is how Amazon describes Multi-Room Music for Alexa: Multi-Room Music SDK For those device makers without…
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Hands On with Amazon’s Fire TV Edition Smart TVs
This week I had the great opportunity to get hands on with Amazon’s new line of Fire TV edition smart TVs. The following is my hands on look at the Amazon Fire TV edition smart TVs: First Impressions Now let me say right off the bat that I was impressed with the construction of the…
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Warning: I Wouldn’t Buy a Fire TV Box Right Now
Yesterday I gave a warning about buying an Apple TV right now, and today I want to give a similar warning to anyone looking at a Fire TV. As best I can tell we are a month or so away from a new Fire TV hitting the market. Typically Amazon will do a price drop…
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A Ton of New Fire TV Apps Are on Their Way
It looks like Amazon is about to take a page out Roku’s playbook with a new Amazon Creator system. Last week an app showed up called the Amazon Creator Preview, a new app that will allow anyone to easily make Fire TV apps without the need for a huge amount of programming experience. This is…
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Amazon Is Ramping Up Their Original Programming
Original programming has become a major selling point for streaming services. A hit original show can change a service from an afterthought into a major player in the world of streaming. Now Amazon wants to double down on its original programming by speeding up the rate that it launches original shows. Recently Amazon Studios VP…
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Expired: Amazon Video is Having a Big Sale on DreamWorks Movies
Do you love dream works movies like Madagascar, Puss in Boots, Shrek and more? Well, today Amazon has a ton of DreamWorks movies on sale. You can find all of the DreamWorks movies that are on sale HERE. Or check out a few that I personally recommend here: Shrek Winner of the first Academy Award…
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Amazon Has Started Testing a 4K HDR Fire TV
We have heard rumors for some time now that a 4K HDR Fire TV was in the works for this fall. Now we have more confirmation that a new Fire TV is almost here. Yesterday AFTVnews found an Amazon test app for the Fire TV. This test app came from Lab126.com, Amazon’s research group that…
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Here is Everything Coming to Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon For The Week of August 21st 2017
Netflix Aug. 21 AWOL Bad Rap Beautiful Creatures Gomorrah: Season 2 Unacknowledged Aug. 22 Lynne Koplitz: Hormonal Beast – NETFLIX ORIGINAL Sadie’s Last Days on Earth Aug. 23 Feel Rich Aug. 25 Disjointed: Part 1 – NETFLIX ORIGINAL Death Note – NETFLIX ORIGINAL FILM DreamWorks Dragons: Race to the Edge: Season 5 – NETFLIX ORIGINAL Once Upon…
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Here is Everything Coming to Amazon Prime in September 2017
Amazon Prime Sept. 1 American Loser American Ruling Class And You Thought Your Parents Were Weird Autopsy Best Seller Bio-Dome Blood Car Boy Breathing Butterfly Effect 3: Revelations Calloused Hands Carrie Charlotte Rampling: The Look Clip Computer Chess Dark Ride Dead Weight Dirty Dancing Disturbing Behavior Double Headed Eagle Double Take Down to…
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Streaming Services Are Betting Big on Classic Movies & TV Shows
It seems that Amazon, Hulu, and others have a new plan to get you to subscribe to their service: classic TV shows and movies. Amazon recently went on a buying spree of rights to classic shows—both hits and cult classics—such as “Unsolved Mysteries” along with several John Wayne movies. Amazon is not the only service…