This story is part of Amazon Prime Day, CNET’s guide to everything you need to know and how to find the best deals. Amazon Prime Day 2021 is entering the home stretch but there are still live deals on Roku streaming devices. If you’ve got an older TV without built-in streaming capabilities, any one of …
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This story is part of Amazon Prime Day, CNET’s guide to everything you need to know and how to find the best deals. Amazon Prime Day is full of deals on new hardware like Roku and Fire TV streamers or Echo speakers and smart displays. But Prime Day always brings good deals on movies and books as well — including subscriptions …
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Apple currently sells two Apple TV streaming devices, but only one of them makes sense. That would be the Apple TV 4K, which got a recent update that added a redesigned and much improved Siri Remote as well as a more modern A12 Bionic processor. The other is the Apple TV HD, which I’m reviewing here. It got the new remote, …
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This story is part of Father’s Day Gift Guide, featuring our top picks for dads who love tech. I’m pretty sure that, by now, everyone who needs a Roku streaming device already has a Roku streaming device — if not a TV with the Roku OS already built in. But let’s talk upgrades for a minute. If you’re still chugging …
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This story is part of Father’s Day Gift Guide, featuring our top picks for dads who love tech. Struggling to come up with a Father’s Day gift idea? If your dad is a techie, we have some ideas for that perfect gift in the form of a streaming device. After all, a new streaming stick would be the Father’s Day …
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This story is part of Father’s Day Gift Guide, featuring our top picks for dads who love tech. Father’s Day 2021 (which arrives Sunday, June 20) will be nothing like Father’s Day 2020. That’s because many coronavirus-related restrictions have been lifted, meaning dads can get the hugs and in-person celebrations they missed last year. This dad right here just wants …
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Roku launched its first original TV show Thursday, a weekly what-to-watch program called Roku Recommends that highlights specific titles to stream across the channels and apps available on, well, Roku devices. It’s the first original production out of what the company is calling its Roku Brand Studio, and it also works as way to drum up some extra advertising revenue: The show has …
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Eagle-eyed shoppers spotted an interesting pair of Walmart listings Thursday: two new media streamers. Each is a Chromecast-enabled Android TV device with Google Assistant voice controls built into the remote. Both of them are branded under Walmart’s own Onn personal electronics line, and as the store brand might indicate, they’re priced to sell, ringing in at $25 and $30. The …
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Sling TV has unveiled a slick new interface for its live TV streaming service, which includes a new DVR menu option and a smart search feature. In my hands-on experience with the new menus, I liked it much better than the current version. It’s sleeker-looking, more modern and best of all, easier to use. The new menu system rolls out …
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Over the past year, Google has weathered a whole host of controversies — from antitrust scrutiny to discord in its AI ranks — amid the wide-ranging challenges of the pandemic. So it must have been a relief for the company to spend a couple of hours focused exclusively on the marvels of tech it’s been cooking up. That’s what we …
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