Amazon’s best TV just got some nice free upgrades

Amazon’s best TV just got some nice free upgrades


  • Amazon’s flagship Fire TV Omni with Mini-LED is getting two new features
  • Interactive Art adds some motion-triggered movement to your ambient screen
  • Dual-Audio arrives and lets the TV send out audio to a hearing aid and its speakers simultaneously

Amazon only entered the Mini-LED TV market with its own Fire TV Omni brand last year, yet its first entry into a crowded market proved to be not just the best in its line-up, but a compelling budget option.

Now Amazon’s rolling out two upgrades to its best TV, and you won’t need to pay anything extra to use either of them. As we’ve seen from the likes of Roku to Amazon in the past, this is a free upgrade for the platform that powers the television.

Up until now, you’ve been able to set a static scene for the Fire TV Omni Mini-LED to display when not in active use. These came in the form of works of art, photographs – akin to Samsung’s Frame TV or Hisense’s Art TV – or even stack widgets to make the TV into a giant smart display. But with the new update, Amazon is injecting some motion into the artwork.

Interactive Art on an Amazon Fire TV Omni Mini-LED

(Image credit: Amazon)

There are now 12 pieces of ‘Interactive Art’ that Amazon promises will make the Fire TV into a “dynamic art piece.” These will interact with movement in the space where the TV is, as it tracks motion using a high-fidelity radar sensor built into the unit. Meaning that if you select a koi fish scene, these creatures might swim across the screen, or a butterfly might flutter in via another choice.

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