As a part of its September 2022 gadgets occasion, Amazon has introduced a brand new model of its Fireplace TV Dice streaming system, priced at $140, and it’s the primary streamer we’ve seen that features an HDMI enter along with its HDMI output, letting it show content material from gadgets like cable or satellite tv for pc set-top packing containers or Blu-ray gamers, whereas it controls these gadgets by way of Alexa or the included distant management. And talking of that distant, it’s been given an improve too: the $35 Alexa Voice Distant Professional now consists of backlighting and a distant management finder function — each of that are absent from the distant that Apple consists of with its Apple TV 4K.
You’ll be able to pre-order each the brand new Fireplace TV Dice and the Alexa Voice Distant Professional beginning September 28 on amazon.com.
The third-gen Fireplace TV Dice additionally has Wi-Fi 6E help, and “Tremendous Decision Upscaling,” which takes any non-4K content material like 1080p HD and significantly improves the way it appears on a 4K TV.
The most important profit to the HDMI enter is that it simplifies interactions along with your different gadgets. The Fireplace TV Dice has at all times included voice-command distant management, but it surely was a bit clunky. It concerned sending infrared instructions to your exterior gadgets like your cable field and TV and utilizing them to set off channel modifications and HDMI enter choice. Now, you’ll be able to simply say, “Alexa, tune to ESPN on cable” and it’ll present up inside the present Fireplace TV interface — no altering of inputs wanted.
One other enchancment is the addition of a full-size USB-A port on the again of the system. Prior to now, should you wished to attach a webcam or a USB stick, you wanted a MicroUSB-to-USB-A adapter, in any other case referred to as an on-the-go (OTG) cable. Now, you’ll be able to plug these gadgets in immediately.
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