Published 15:14 IST, November 12th 2019
Amazon Echo, Fire TV can now be connected to build Alexa Home Theatre
This means you can now have audio playing off your Echo smart speaker for content that’s playing off your Fire TV stick.
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It is w possible to connect Amazon’s Echo devices with its Fire TV stick to build an ‘Alexa Home atre system.’ This means you can w have audio playing off your Echo smart speaker for content that’s playing off your Fire TV stick. Amazon’s ‘Alexa Home atre system’ will allow users to access 1.0 and 2.0 configurations over wireless speakers, and 1.1 and 2.1 configurations specifically for Echo Sub users.
How to connect Amazon Echo and Fire TV to build ‘Alexa Home ater’
-- Connect your Fire TV device and Echo Studio to same network and Amazon account.
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-- In Alexa app, tap on Devices icon on lower right-hand side and n tap “+” icon on upper right-hand side.
-- Tap “Set Up Audio System” from popup and n tap “Home atre” on next screen.
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-- Select your Fire TV device and n “Next” to name your new Home atre system.
-- Select Echo devices you would like to use as speakers – you can set-up two speakers, plus an optional Echo Sub.
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-- Follow on-screen instructions.
While owners of current generation Echo and Echo Plus will be able to stream Dolby audio wireless, Echo Studio users can stream Dolby Atmos-quality sound through system. Echo Studio is tably Amazon’s most high-end Echo smart speaker ever. It is world’s first smart speaker to support 3D audio – and it supports Dolby Atmos and Sony’s 360 Reality Audio out-of--box as well.
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re are a total of five drivers on-board Echo Studio - three 2-inch midrange speakers (that fire out of sides and straight up), a 1-inch tweeter, and a 5.25-inch woofer. All of this is powered by an amp that peaks out at 33 watts, plus re’s also a 24-bit DAC “for high-res, lossless music playback.”
As for standard Echo, it is w in its third generation – it was launched only recently in India alongside Echo Studio. third-generation Echo has same audio architecture as Echo Plus with neodymium drivers – including a 3-inch woofer.
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14:43 IST, November 12th 2019