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Added on the 07/07/2017 14:18:13 - Copyright : Wochit
Millions of Echo products were reportedly shipped worldwide over the holiday season. Fan favorite Echo Dot became the No. 1 selling Amazon device and best-selling product “from any manufacturer in any category across all of Amazon." Along with its touch-screen Echo Spot and playful Echo Buttons counterparts, the Dot proved an extremely popular gift this year: All three sold out by Christmas.
At last year’s CES, all the major TV manufacturers made it clear that the future would be televised in 4K. Nvidia, Amazon, Roku, and TiVo all came to market with their own 4K streaming boxes. And Roku, still our favorite player in the streaming game, is now baking its 4K streaming services, excellent discovery engine, and easy interface into TCL’s newest 4K TVs. The new TCL 4K Roku TV will include a Feed alert system and voice-search capabilities. But it’s unknown whether the new TCL set’s hardware specs and features will fully match those of the high-powered Roku 4 box. Roku has also announced it is working with TCL on a reference design for Roku-powered HDR services. According to Roku, it’ll be able to handle both Dolby Vision and HDR10 content, as well.
Amazon is a giant in e-commerce, and it’s throwing its weight around today. In an email to marketplace sellers, Amazon says it will stop sales of streaming devices from Apple and Google by October 29. They don’t work with Amazon Instant Video. According to the email, the sales ban covers the Apple TV, Chromecast, and Nexus Player. “Over the last three years, Prime Video has become an important part of Prime. It’s important that the streaming media players we sell interact well with Prime Video in order to avoid customer confusion. Roku, XBOX, PlayStation and Fire TV are excellent choices.”
Want to buy the new Chromecast or the upcoming Apple TV? You won't be able to get them from Amazon. As first reported by Bloomberg, Amazon is planning on dropping streaming devices that don't work with its Prime Video streaming service as of Oct. 29. According to Bloomberg, Amazon sent an email to its marketplace sellers letting them know that no new listings for Apple TV or Chromecast products would be allowed and that existing listings would be removed as of Oct. 29.