Amazon's Echo Show 15 is getting the full Fire TV experience

Amazon’s Echo Show 15 is getting the full Fire TV experience

Amazon’s Echo Show series of smart displays are generally pretty small andfit for a limited, but meaningful purpose: to get you quick, glanceable information from wherever you are in your house — whether you’re at your bed or in the living room. You generally wouldn’t see yourself sitting down for a session of “House of Dragons” with one of them, but there’s one special exception that the company is now making a case for.

Specifically, theEcho Show 15will be the first in the series to get integrated access to Fire TV and its content catalog with a software update coming “soon.” The company touts that American users will have access to more than a million movies as well as subscription content from Paramount+ and Showtime, though the update will apply for all Echo Show 15 devices worldwide. Users will be able to pair the third-gen Alexa Voice Remote to navigate content.

The Echo Show 15 may have seemed awkward being such a large size but having the media limits of the Echo interface, but the addition of Fire TV will make it much more intuitive. It’ll also allow you to use a remote, so you don’t have to rely on Alexa voice input foreverything.

It’s definitely a sensible move if you’ve ever used this large, Alexa-powered canvas for anything other than fast updates.Amazon saysit has always envisioned the panel in the kitchen for some mealtime entertainment and that it’s tracked video-oriented use already in a majority of households.

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