Echo Show (2nd Gen) – Premium sound and a vibrant 10.1″ HD screen – Sandstone
Echo Show features a new look, a vibrant 10.1” HD screen, built-in smart home hub, and improved speakers that deliver expansive stereo sound. Product Features Premium speakers with Dolby processing let you stream music and books in crisp, stereo sound. With a vibrant 10.1″ HD screen for watching videos, movies, and TV shows in a
Echo Show features a new look, a vibrant 10.1” HD screen, built-in smart home hub, and improved speakers that deliver expansive stereo sound.
Product Features
- Premium speakers with Dolby processing let you stream music and books in crisp, stereo sound. With a vibrant 10.1″ HD screen for watching videos, movies, and TV shows in a new fabric design.
- Ask Alexa to see lyrics and album art with Amazon Music. See weather forecasts, calendars, to-do lists, and your favorite playlists.
- Watch award-winning movies and shows from Prime Video, music videos from Vevo, or live TV and sports with a Hulu subscription.
- Make video calls to anyone with Skype, the Alexa app, an Echo Spot, or Echo Show.
- Your new kitchen companion – watch recipe videos, set timers and alarms, and add items to your shopping list.
- Set up compatible Zigbee devices without the need for a separate hub. See your front door camera stream with 2-way audio and notifications.
- Built with multiple layers of privacy protections and controls, including a microphone/camera off button that electronically disconnects the microphones and camera.
- With tens of thousands of skills and counting, Alexa is always getting smarter. Skills are like apps and let you do more with Alexa.
Home Screen ANNOYING x 1000 Can’t disable the stupid home. It is non-stop displaying stupid snippets. Looking at it now it’s telling me these:Try “Alexa, play the Rhino video.”Try “Alexa, tell me a horse joke”Try “Alexa, what’s the top rated Bluethooth speaker?Try “Alexa, what can I make with spinach?”Try “Alexa, tell me something weird.”OMG, they don’t stop! All the damn day. No way to turn them off other than turning off the display.Is it too much to ask to just have a clock? Make it an option. Duh!I want to buy 30 of these for my office and use them as video intercoms. I have 3 I’m trying out and for this purpose (and music and all the other Alexa stuff), they work perfectly. They are AMAZING, actually, in that regard! But their lame “try” messages won’t freaking stop. I can just see my employees who should be working “trying” all these new things and watching cat videos all day because Echo keeps suggesting new things! Ugh…
Odd Device I work from home and bought the Echo Show specifically for two reasons: background movies and music to keep me company all day. For music, yes, this is an excellent device. The sound is loud, clear and surprisingly well-rounded. Alexa recognizes voice commands very well in this respect. Movies, on the other hand, are a struggle. First, Alexa does not recognize most movie names by voice command, even ones I know are on Prime Video. Next, if you have Alexa take you directly to Prime Video, it offers only a “lite” version of the service. You cannot search movies well and the few categories they have stop at 60 results. Being that I can easily stream 4-6 movies a day while working, I’ve already exhausted most of the good choices. Then, for whatever reason, the audio volume on videos is 50-70% lower than music. So in order to watch a video at arm’s length away, I have to turn the volume to 1/2 at minimum, but usually 3/4. I don’t understand the massive disparity between…