Amazon debuts its latest Fire TVs, including a new Omni QLED model

At Amazon’s yearly hardware event, it announced a fleet of caller Fire TVs, including an Omni QLED model, arsenic good arsenic caller 2 and 4-series televisions that are each disposable to preorder starting contiguous and volition vessel adjacent month. These TVs diagnostic what the institution calls omnisense beingness detection. It volition let the TV to aftermath up erstwhile it detects that you locomotion into the room. You tin besides speech to Alexa Plus done the TV — nary distant needed.

Alexa Plus is simply a smarter acquisition for the large surface than the erstwhile iteration. Amazon claims it tin springiness you suggestions tailored to your taste, adjacent uncovering circumstantial scenes wrong movies based connected your query.

The caller QLED is 60 percent brighter than Amazon’s erstwhile Omni QLED models. It’s disposable starting astatine $479.99 for the 50-inch, going up to 75 inches. Amazon claims that it has “nearly double” the section dimming zones compared to erstwhile models, though the magnitude volition apt disagree depending connected the size.

The Fire TV 4 volition beryllium disposable successful 43-inch, 50-inch, and 55-inch configurations, starting astatine $329.99 (this volition apt beryllium fashionable arsenic a vacation gift). The Fire TV 2 is its slightest costly tier, starting astatine $159.99 for the 32-inch version. There volition besides beryllium a 40-inch version. Amazon’s Fire TV operating strategy powers TVs from assorted manufacturers, but the Omni bid is its ain flagship TV with a higher-end design, amended specs, and a higher price. Last year, Amazon released its archetypal Mini LED Fire TV, signaling that it wants a spot successful the surviving rooms of cinephiles and gamers alike. It featured up to 1,344 dimming zones (depending connected the size), positive a 144Hz refresh rate, and could scope up to 1,400 nits astatine highest brightness.