A few weeks ago, we posted about Amazon’s new voice controlled Fire TV Cube.
Think Apple TV married with Amazon Echo. No remote required, just ask Alexa to turn on your system, change channels, pause, jump to a specific location, all via voice.
The ultimate hands-free utopia, right?
Trevor Daugherty, 9to5Toys:
Fire TV Cube looks to cure that with an all-in-one solution centered around its Alexa voice platform. In our hands-on testing, it delivered as a means for sorting through content but fell short as an intuitive hub for home theaters. The potential is there, but don’t count on it changing the game just yet.
Dig through Trevor’s review. While some of the issues raised are easy to get past, many of them are enough to spoil the value of the experience. Judge for yourself but, if you are even considering a purchase, read the whole article to learn what you are in for.
I still have no idea what is utopian about having to say “Pause” and hope it hears me versus pressing a button on a remote control. One works 100% of the time, one doesn’t.
Am I the only one that doesn’t want to talk to everything i own?
This joke of a device is not the least bit interesting after seeing what Apple has planned for the new tvOS coming this Fall. Their deal with Spectrum is the first thing to make me glad I’m using that cable provider. Well second. Bumping my internet speed to well over 100 megabits was good too. But they tarnished that one with upgrading all their customers to more expensive plans a year ago without asking, and then when people complained they said they only did it at the request of customers. Bald-faced lie. But then that’s what they all do I suppose. What surprised me, and pleased me, is them going all-in with Apple TV and dropping requiring us to rent their cable boxes, or requiring cable cards in our personal devices, such as my TiVOs when using the next tvOS on their system.