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Amazon Echo Show 15 smart displays can now stream content from Sling TV. The Alexa-enabled additional streaming service offers both live and archived content, further blurring the line between television and smart display as evident once the Echo Show 15 debuted this past year.
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Sling TV subscribers in the U.S. can operate the service with voice controls through Alexa, asking the voice assistant to spread out the app and change to different streaming and live stations once they’ve logged to their account. Users may also pick channels while using 15.6-inch touchscreen. The Echo Show 15 is Sling’s first Amazon smart display appearance, but the presentation last year promised that other Echo Shows will get access afterwards. Sling has already been Alexa-enabled on Amazon TVs and associated with Google Assistant around the Nest Hub and Nest Hub Max smart displays in late 2023.
“Echo Show offers Sling users valuable solutions like voice control through Alexa,” Sling senior vice president of product and operations Seth Van Sickel said. “With Sling, Echo Show can function a lot more like a traditional television with linear channels. It bridges the gap for cord-cutters to allow them to go about their lives, whether that’s meal prepping in the kitchen area or exercising, without missing another of their favorite live sports, news and entertainment.”
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Van Sickel’s description from the Echo Show becoming more just like a regular TV is apt, judging from the way the two types of products are edging into one another. The Echo Show 15 may serve as a smart home hub for controlling devices and otherwise perform like its smaller cousins. But it’s large enough to be wall-mounted the 1080p Full HD screen makes it suitable like a television too. From the other way, the recent line of Amazon-built smart TVs include far-field microphones making Alexa responsive even when the TV is off. Aside from the touchscreen, it’s not as easy to delineate which device to use for an activity they can both handle.
