Marc Whitten, who leads Amazon’s Fire TV division, introduces the first Fire TV Edition with built-in Alexa microphones. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge
Up to this point, TVs that come loaded with Amazon’s Fire TV software (or even Roku OS for that matter) have stuck to LCD. But today Amazon has announced that an OLED Fire TV Edition is on the way — just not in the United States, unfortunately. The company has partnered with Grundig to release two versions of an OLED TV: one will have far-field voice microphones built in for hands-free Alexa control and, in case that creeps you out, the other one won’t include the mics. (You’ll just get the usual Alexa voice remote where you hold the button down to issue commands.)
Are we ready for Alexa microphones inside our TVs? This could easily be the beginning of a trend for other Fire TV Edition models in the future.
The Grundig OLED Fire TV…