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Apple TV app coming to Roku players, Roku TVs today ahead of Apple TV Plus

Starting today owners of Roku media streamers and Roku TVs can download Apple’s TV app, allowing access to Apple’s video content on their devices for the first time. The app is the exclusive home for Apple’s upcoming Apple TV Plus service, due Nov. 1. The service is a Netflix rival that will launch with nine …

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Get this refurbished Vizio Dolby Atmos soundbar for $239

There’s upgrading your TV room and then there’s upgrading your TV room. The former involves an inexpensive soundbar that takes the audio onus off your TV’s terrible speakers. The latter: a 5.1-channel audio system with a subwoofer and Dolby Atmos support. (For those unfamiliar with it, here’s why Dolby Atmos is cool.) Wait a second, though: Doesn’t that feature cost …

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TCL 8

In August TCL gave us details on its new 2019 TVs, including an upgrade to the superb 2018 TCL 6-Series that adds QLED color and costs $800 for the 65-inch size. Now the Chinese TV maker’s higher-end model, the TCL 8-Series, goes on sale, bringing even better image quality specs and a price to match. It’s available for preorder starting today exclusively …

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6 things you shouldn’t buy until Black Friday

Black Friday is coming. Sure, not till the end of November, but you can already hear the hype machine grinding its gears. Best Buy, for example, just kicked off a big sale on Sony and Samsung TVs and other home-theater stuff, with guaranteed Black Friday prices. That means if a price goes any lower between now and Black Friday, you’ll …

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One of our favorite budget TVs is on sale for $498

It’s not Prime Day, Black Friday, Labor Day, National Cat Awareness Day or any other holiday, but Vizio has chosen this moment to offer a great sale on a great TV. For a limited time, Amazon has the Vizio M-558G1 Quantum 55-inch TV for $498. Vizio proper sells it for $650, and here it’s a buck below the all-time lowest …

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Will Apple’s TV app on Roku, Fire TV and Samsung kill the Apple TV box?

When Apple CEO Tim Cook introduced the current HD version of the Apple TV streaming box in 2015, he famously said, “The future of TV is apps.” Now an Apple app on a bunch of other devices could make that box obsolete. Four years later, at the iPhone 11 event on Sept. 10, Cook and company once again took the …

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The 2019 Vizio P

Labor Day is over, but deals on big TVs aren’t. This 65-inch Vizio P-Series Quantum remains widely available for under $1,000 at most major retailers: It’s $998 at Walmart and Amazon (where it’s out of stock and will ship at that price when inventory returns) and just 2 bucks more at Best Buy. This is the 2019 version of this …

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Roku smart sound bar rocks built

Sound bars are one of the most popular ways to add improved audio to your TV, and now they let you add streaming too. The Roku smart sound bar, available for pre-order today for $180, has a full Roku operating system suite onboard, complete with thousands of apps like Netflix, Hulu, YouTube and Spotify — no need to add a …

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Huge Labor Day TV deal: This 70

Update, September 3: This sale has ended, but the 65-inch Vizio P-Series Quantum remains on sale for around the same price. With football season right around the corner, it can be tempting to upgrade your TV at the end of the summer. Or perhaps you are looking ahead to November when Disney Plus launches with The Mandalorian and new shows …

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The best Labor Day 2019 deals still available

Labor Day weekend is winding to a close, but there are still plenty of good deals out there. We’ve updated our list below, pulling expired sales and verifying ones that are still available as of Monday morning.  Here are the ones that are still worth your time: We’ve rounded up the best Labor Day mattress deals. We’ve also gathered the …

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