Echo Present 15 is designed to be the digital coronary heart of your own home. You possibly can view your family’s shared calendar, handle purchasing and to-do lists, or discover recipe concepts with the Alexa widgets on its customizable homescreen. You can even use the system to view and management good house gadgets, observe packages, depart notes for members of the family, or name family members.

Regardless that Echo Present 15 already does a lot, we noticed that clients have been utilizing the system to look at movies and keep entertained—that’s why we’re excited to convey Fireplace TV to Echo Present 15. This new function will allow you to stream your favourite content material from YouTube, YouTube Youngsters, YouTube TV, and Disney+ proper in your system. Your Echo Present 15 can already accomplish that a lot, and we hope you’ll love utilizing it to entry over one million films and TV episodes by way of Fireplace TV.

Fireplace TV is rolling out to current Echo Present 15 clients as a free software program replace, and also will be accessible on all new Echo Present 15 gadgets. Listed here are some extra particulars in regards to the newest function we’ve added to Echo Present 15.

Begin streaming in lower than quarter-hour

In case you already use Echo Present 15, get began by downloading the newest software program replace. In case you’re establishing your system for the primary time, you’ll set up the Fireplace TV expertise throughout setup. From there, add streaming apps like Netflix, Hulu, and Paramount+, after which log in to your subscription to start streaming.

When you’ve accomplished setup, you possibly can entry the Fireplace TV expertise on Echo Present 15 by saying, “Alexa, open Fireplace TV,” or “Alexa, open Disney+,” or “Alexa, play The Rings of Energy.” We hope accessing content material along with your voice will make it simple to look at your favourite collection on Netflix as you prep dinner within the kitchen, or the information on Sling TV as you get settled in your workplace within the morning.

Echo Present 15 with Fireplace TV built-in is the right companion for cooking large vacation meals. In case you’re planning to cook dinner this vacation season, you realize it may be a time-consuming endeavor. Why not benefit from the firm of your favourite actuality TV present—performed proper out of your system—as you simmer the inventory or feed the household sourdough starter? As Actual Housewives alum Dorinda Medley stated, “I will be cooking, layering my well-known Blue Stone Manor lasagna, and get 5 different issues executed on the similar time. Now that I can watch TV on the Echo Present 15 too, I would by no means depart the kitchen.”

Pair the Alexa Voice Distant (third Gen)

The Alexa Voice Distant (third Gen) is one of the simplest ways to search out, launch, and management content material from Fireplace TV in your Echo Present 15. You possibly can faucet the house button on the distant to shortly entry the Fireplace TV expertise, click on on the dwell TV button, and even go straight to your content material with one of many app buttons on the underside of the distant. For a restricted time solely, clients can buy a distant and Echo Present 15 bundle for $194.99 ($84.99 off). In case you want to make use of the expertise with out the Alexa Voice Distant (third Gen), we’ve developed a digital distant for Fireplace TV on Echo Present 15. The digital distant will seem on the display screen so you possibly can navigate and management video apps that aren’t touch-enabled. You can even use the distant in your smartphone’s Amazon Fireplace TV app to navigate the Fireplace TV expertise.

Different enhanced options for Echo Present 15

Whereas we’re all the time innovating and dealing to convey completely new gadgets to our clients, we’re additionally dedicated to bettering previous-generation gadgets, including new options that make the expertise much more pleasant. Fireplace TV on Echo Present 15 is much from the one latest instance.

In September, we launched Amazon’s custom-built spatial audio processing know-how for Echo Studio, which is designed to reinforce stereo sound by making it really feel nearer to the listener, with higher width, readability, and presence. Now, we’re additionally bringing spatial audio processing know-how to Echo Present 15 for improved sound. It mirrors the efficiency of a large stereo system, making a extra immersive sound expertise for the listener—good for listening to music or watching TV reveals and films.

As we generally say at Amazon, it’s solely Day 1, and we’ll proceed constructing new experiences, however we’re excited to convey Fireplace TV to your Echo Present 15. It’s one other step ahead in how we view leisure within the ambient house.