This story is part of CES, where CNET covers the latest news on the most incredible tech coming soon. Vizio has revealed pricing and availability of its 2020 range of soundbars, most of which are shipping now with prices starting from $150. The company makes some of CNET’s favorite soundbars for the money, with standout …
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Denon on Tuesday announced its most “affordable” 8K receiver yet, the $649 AVR-S960H, and it offers a host of new technologies, including HDR10 Plus support. The company announced its higher-end X series at the start of June, but prices started at $849. The AVR-S960H will go on sale in July. The 7.1.2-channel receiver includes six HDMI 2.3 inputs, including one …
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Vizio, the No. 3 TV maker in the US after Samsung and TCL, has announced pricing and availability of its extensive 2020 range of TVs. The new 2020 TVs are available in store now and promise better color, better contrast and improved performance, for gamers in particular. The biggest surprise for this year was the company’s first OLED TVs, but its bread and …
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After years of manufacturing LCD-based TVs, Vizio is set to sell its first OLED televisions in fall of this year. They’ll come in 55- and 65-inch sizes priced at a very reasonable $1,300 and $2,000, respectively. That makes them the least-expensive 2020 OLED TVs announced so far, beating the current prices of LG’s 2020 BX series by $200 in both …
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FuboTV, a live-TV streaming service, announced Wednesday that it has signed a distribution deal with Disney that will finally bring ESPN to the sports-centric platform. The change is due to go live over the summer (date to be announced), so viewers with the base $55 package will now able to watch ABC, ABC News Live, Disney Channel, Disney Junior, Disney XD, …
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Bowers and Wilkins is bringing back the Signature banner for its latest series of loudspeakers — the 705 and 702 Signature — which offer both internal and external upgrades. Both speakers are upgrades to the existing 700 series speakers which include improved crossover designs and components (Mundorf capacitors, larger heatsinks and an upgraded LF capacitor on the 702) plus a …
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Vizio has announced that the Movies Anywhere app is available on its SmartCast platform, enabling users to watch their digital movie purchases. Separately, the Apple TV Plus app will be coming to Vizio TVs later in the year. The new Movies Anywhere app will let users stream movies from their Movies Anywhere digital locker and is compatible with both Dolby Vision and …
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Roku expanded its free live TV service Roku Channel earlier this month with the addition of 100 live channels housed in a new program guide. The service offers linear programming from categories including news (ABC News Live, Reuters, Newsy), kids (Teletubbies, Kidz Bop), lifestyle (Bon Appetit, Bob Ross) and sports (Bein, Outside TV). In order to watch the new channels, Roku Channel has …
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When we received the TiVo Stream 4K video streamer for review we ran into some issues. The device, a $50 streamer similar to a Roku or Fire TV but based on Google’s Android TV system, would repeatedly lock up and restart after playing video from Netflix and Disney Plus on an LG CX OLED TV. Audio dropouts occurred on a Sony X950G …
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Streaming is the future of music consumption, and while your stereo may be from the ’90s, you can still use it to play music from the cloud music services like Spotify. Alongside voice assistants such as Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant, Spotify Connect is one of the most useful ways to control your streaming music collection. The system enables both Spotify Free …
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