In September 2021, Amazon launched two ranges of own-brand TVs within the US and Canada providing an all-in-one system with Alexa and Fireplace TV.
Now, the corporate is launching the 4-Sequence and Omni QLED within the UK and Germany. However that’s not all, Amazon can also be including a good cheaper vary that provides some smaller display sizes to supply choices it doesn’t matter what dimension your room or finances.
Amazon Fireplace TV 2-Sequence
The brand new entry-level 2-Sequence is available in 32- and 40in display sizes, with the smaller one costing £249.99. That has a 720p decision, with the 40in providing a 1080p (Full HD) panel for £299.99. In most different respects, the TVs have the identical options because the bigger 4-Sequence together with built-in Alexa and supporting HDR10, HLG and Dolby Digital Audio.
The Fireplace TV interface is very similar to what you get on a Fireplace TV Stick, and provides you entry to Amazon Prime Video, BBC iPlayer, Netflix and lots of different streaming providers.
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Being a TV, you additionally get a built-in Freeview Play tuner for watching stay TV.
The two-Sequence, is out there to pre-order from Amazon instantly. The TVs go on sale formally on 12 April.
Fireplace TV 4-Sequence
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The 4-Sequence has choices for greater display sizes: 43, 50 and 55in. These are all 4K and assist HDR10, HLG and Dolby Digital Plus.
Once more, you employ Alexa through the included Voice Distant and get the total Fireplace TV interface, plus built-in Freeview Play for stay TV.
The 43in mannequin prices £429.99, the 50in £499.99 and the 55in £549.99. You may pre-order a 4-Sequence from Amazon proper now.
Fireplace TV Omni QLED
As within the US and Canada, the Omni QLED is the flagship mannequin. It is available in 43, 50, 55 and 65in and begins at £549.99. Not like within the US, there’s no 75in possibility.
Omni TVs have a 4K QLED panel for higher picture high quality (and assist for HDR10+) has a extra premium end due to a metallic body and stand and in addition has some further options.
One is hands-free Alexa due to the identical form of “far-field” microphones you get in an Amazon Echo. However there’s additionally a sensor panel with gentle and presence sensors.
These do a number of issues. For one, they permit Omni QLED TVs to assist Dolby Imaginative and prescient IQ and HDR10+ Adaptive, which implies brightness and picture high quality is adjusted based mostly on the ambient lighting situations in your room.
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Additionally they enable the TVs to detect if anybody is within the room, and both activate or flip off what Amazon calls Ambient Expertise. That is successfully a scaled-up Echo Present interface that may show household images from Amazon Photographs, widgets exhibiting the climate, your calendar, leisure suggestions and extra.
There’s additionally a free library of round 1700 items of free gallery-quality art work which – as with Samsung TVs in ambient mode – flip your massive display into an image body. They embody a number of work from native artists within the UK from galleries in Wales and Scotland. Alexa can let you know extra about each bit: it isn’t simply a picture.
The gathering additionally consists of slo-mo video, so much like Apple TV screensavers, and different ‘movement items’ reminiscent of a comfy hearth. There’s a single piece of ‘dynamic’ artwork that adjustments subtly based mostly on issues reminiscent of your native climate, wind velocity and the time of day. Amazon says it plans to increase to incorporate extra dynamic items.
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Sooner or later you’ll be capable of generate your individual art work utilizing AI by asking Alexa for no matter you may consider. Amazon demoed this by saying “Alexa, create a background exhibiting the northern lights over Huge Ben”. There’s no agency date on when this shall be made out there, however a spokesperson stated it ought to be inside a 12 months.
You may management when Ambient Expertise is displayed utilizing Quiet Hours and setting how lengthy it ought to wait while you’re not watching somethiing in your TV earlier than it seems.
After all, like a Fireplace TV, you may also ask Alexa (on any of those TVs) to point out the entrance door digital camera, to set a timer, to play music and every thing else that Alexa usually does.
Pre-order reductions
Because it did again in 2021, Amazon is providing “introductory reductions” which means it can save you as much as £300 till 11 April.
You may pre-order all the fashions proper now from Amazon’s web site.