I replaced my kitchen TV with an Echo Show 15 and I kinda liked it | Digital Trends

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The Echo Show 15 is mostly meant as a picture frame that has Alexa built-in. But can the recently added FireTV experience turn it into a TV? We found out.

For the better part of the last 20 years, my family has had a TV in our kitchen. It was the cheapest 19-inch flat screen I could find at the time — a 720p Sharp model — and we hooked it up to our cable connection and a Tivoli One speaker for better sound. It worked just fine — no complaints.

… and a remote The other thing you will need if you want the Fire TV experience is a Fire TV remote. I was able to use an existing second-gen Fire TV remote, but Amazon recommends the latest third-gen Alexa Voice Remote for Fire TV or Voice Remote Pro. Its 1080p Full HD resolution is also more than adequate when you consider how small it is, and as for the missing HDR capability? Sure, HDR would be great, but given that you can’t find this feature on any conventional TV smaller than 32 inches, its absence isn’t a deal-breaker.

You may be able to cobble together enough channel-specific apps to make do. I was able to add CNN, CTV, and CBC apps, but that’s still a far cry from all of the channels I can normally access. Moreover, even though the Fire TV interface offers a live TV guide view, it doesn’t appear to be able to pull in data from apps that require subscription authentication, like CNN and CTV.

The onboard speakers aren’t superpowerful and the sound quality is only average, but that’s true of virtually any small-size TV, too. You can’t connect the frame to a wired speaker, but Bluetooth is an option, so you might already own a wireless speaker that will work as well or better than a wired unit.

 

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