home entertainment
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Amazon’s DVR For Over-the-Air TV Is Surprisingly Great
The Amazon Fire TV Recast is a wacky gadget. It’s not wacky in that it looks weird. (It’s just a simple black box.) It’s also not wacky because it does wacky stuff. (It’s a DVR for over-the-air TV.) The Recast is wacky because it does this one hyper-specific thing really well. I’m not sure why…
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Sonos Beam Is A Great Smart Soundbar For Not Too Much Money
People who own Sonos speakers love their Sonos speakers. I’m one of them. In the three to four years that I’ve been living in the Sonos ecosystem, however, one big complaint was that I couldn’t use Sonos for my TV unless I barfed up $1000 for the Sonos Playbase or Playbar. Now, with the $600…
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Samsung’s New TV Remotes Will Control Your Whole Home Theatre Setup
It’s very easy indeed to end up with a couch arm littered with button-clad boxes. But while after-market multi-device controllers exist, Samsung plans to solve the problem straight out of the box with its new smart TV remotes.
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Sonos Wants More Space In Your Home Theatre For Its New Playbar
Sonos continues its righteous quest to dominate every room in your house with easy, awesome wireless music with its new Playbar. The soundbar joins the Sonos subwoofer introduced last year as well as two standalone tabletop systems already available.