Good news Amazon offers its own home cinema at 73€
Have you just bought a brand new 4K TV? Congratulations, all that remains is to take care of the sound, a point of expenditure often too neglected. Yes, quality sound costs as much as a quality image… unless. Amazon has found a solution that allows you to set up your own home cinema for not much.
Echo Dot and Fire TV Stick: fusion of Amazon products for a Home Cinema kit
Amazon has made it possible to connect its various connected products. The trick is to combine them, and the magic happens very quickly. So, no need to go broke with a sound bar costing several hundred euros that offers mediocre spatialization.
All you need is a Fire TV Stick 4K and Echo Dot gen 3 or 4 connected speakers.
Buy 2 Echo Dot (3rd) at 39 € with the code ECHODOT3 on Amazon
Buy Echo Dot gen 4 at 49€ for 2 on Amazon
Buy the $34 Fire Stick TV 4K on Amazon
At the moment, there are huge promotions on these products, that’s good. Even if the technique works with Echo Dot gen 3, we advise you to go with a duo of Echo Dot gen 4, whose sound is better, especially at the bass level. Note that some Echo Dot models are compatible Dolby Atmos (yes yes, the sound mixing intended for the cinema and reserved for the high end).
Usually a single Echo Dot gen 4 costs $59.99. Right now you can add 2 to your cart and the set will only cost you 49,98€ by entering the promo code 2ECHODOT4 (in capitals) just before checkout. It’s super profitable.
If you can’t afford it and want to pay even less, a similar promotion exists with Amazon’s 3rd generation smart speakers. There the promo code is ECHODOT3 and the pair of speakers will come back to you 39€ only. It’s pretty crazy.
Here’s how to build your efficient and very inexpensive Amazon home theater:
- Now that the FireTV Stick is plugged into your TV’s HDMI port and you’ve received the speakers at home, connect the whole to the same Amazon account and the same WiFi network.
- On your smartphone, open l’application Alexa and select “configure the audio system”. Click on the option “Home cinema”.
- Choose your Fire TV Stick TV and configure your Echo Dot as speakers.
- All that’s left is to place the speakers around you, and poof, you will have a spacious sound. A must to really enjoy your favorite series and movies.
Echo Dot and FireTV Stick 4K features: individually good products
Le Fire TV Stick 4K d’Amazon
We’ve been talking about it since the beginning of this article but maybe you don’t know about this much overlooked product.
The basic principle of the Fire TV Stick is to bring an ergonomic and fluid connected TV interface to any TV model. Once connected to an HDMI port, the FireTV Stick 4K allows you to download the apps you want (YouTube, Twitch, Netflix, Disney+, Cruncyroll, etc.) perfectly optimized. Dolby Vision or HDR standards are obviously taken into account.
As it is an Amazon connected product, Alexa is obviously part of it.
Overall the Fire Stick TV 4K is a very discreet little device which allows you to actually upgrade your 4K TV if it’s not a Smart TV or just choose your system, all for a really tiny price. A little extra: taking your little Fire TV Stick on vacation is like taking your whole TV, you just have to plug it in somewhere else to find all your accounts.
Buy the $34 Fire Stick TV 4K on Amazon
Les Echos Dot: references of connected speakers
In the small world of connected speakers, the Echo Dot are a great reference. Level value for money, it’s unbeatable.
When they’re not being used as a home theater, the Echo Dots serve a whole host of purposes. Do not panic, these are not little spies whose secret objective is to reveal your privacy to American multinationals. The principle of a connected speaker is simply to simplify everyday life. It is THE gateway to the wonderful world of home automation (that is to say “connected objects in general”).
In the kitchen, an Echo Dot dictates the recipe, plays music while you peel the potatoes and sets the timer once the dish is on the heat. In the bedroom, it serves as an alarm clock and an assistant to tell you the weather (which helps you choose your clothes) or turn on connected light bulbs. In the bathroom, the Echo Dot presses you if you drag a little too much under water while broadcasting the radio, a podcast or music on Spotify… in short, it serves a lot of things.
For the price and size, the speaker is quite surprising in its power and overall quality. Once you taste it, it’s hard to do without the comfort of a voice assistant on a daily basis. Frankly, it doesn’t cost much to try.
Buy 2 Echo Dot (3rd) at 39 € with the code ECHODOT3 on Amazon
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By WarialJournalist jeuxvideo.com