Review: Amazon finally made its first TV with Alexa built in — here's what it's like.
Amazon's first TV sets, including the 4-Series and the higher-end Omni Series, which you can talk to and control without a remote, go on sale this week.In this articles first TV sets, which you can talk to and control without a remote, go on sale this week. I've been testing the $830 Amazon Fire TV Omni Series for a few days. It's a good TV for the money, and Alexa can be useful, but the software interface doesn't look as sharp as it should on a 4K TV.
I tested the 65-inch Amazon Fire TV Omni Series television, but there's also a lower-end cheaper TV known as the 4 Series, which starts at $370.The Omni Series has a high-end physical design with an edge-to-edge 4K screen that's sharp and, with the right adjustments, colorful. I like the slim metal bezel on the bottom, and the fact that I can just ask it to do what I want.
"The goal there is to be able to make a request while you're watching TV and not just kind of halt everything that you're doing. You should be able to do it while you have that show going on and we also want to make sure that we're not impacting your TV watching when it comes to responses," Parrish said.
Likewise, it works well if you say "Alexa, play the movie 'Hackers,'" but didn't correctly understand "Alexa, play the latest episode of 'Succession'" — instead, it began playing the very first episode of the show. Amazon explained those inconsistent results can come down to how some apps -- in this case, HBO Max -- catalog their shows.
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