Amazon Echo

[LondonManc]

I think MS are desperate to move into media streaming although they keep making an absolute arse of it. Buying sonos would probably give them the edge to become a major player quite quickly.

Unfortunately Sonos do seem ripe pickings for somebody. Still can't stop chuckling when I look at their site and see a bundle of two play 1s for exactly the same prices as buying two of them separately.

[kevpuk]

Unfortunately Sonos do seem ripe pickings for somebody. Still can't stop chuckling when I look at their site and see a bundle of two play 1s for exactly the same prices as buying two of them separately.

Ah, yes, pricing is fun.......last few bits I grabbed were from Amazon.it, using a Supercard, after CamelCamelCamel tracker pinged one of those rare greatly reduced prices (PlayBar & Sub for about £700 total IIRC)

Back on topic - ordered an Echo (shiny new tech toy thingamajig)

[Moose423956]

Back on topic - ordered an Echo (shiny new tech toy thingamajig)

Let us know how you get on with it.

[kevpuk]

Let us know how you get on with it.

Yep, will do

[filthy1980]

ordered one too on saturday, been waiting for the UK release for ages

plan on using a few IFTT recipes, for Hue lights and a couple of WeMo plugs

should be good with prime account too

[vetran]

She won't cook your breakfast if you keep that up.

apparently after a night on the sherberts she won't cook my sock either!

[minestrone]

The google home...

The new Google Home speaker will reportedly cost $50 less than the Amazon Echo - The Verge

When these things have a 'please make conversation with my wife in the other room' setting I'm buying.

[sal]

The kinnect on th Xbox sometimes worked surprisingly well for me other times it was a joke.

The echo has decent reviews for voice recognition but then I have only read American reviews. I use the voice recognition on the fire TV and its pretty good.

They should use these guys to test voice recognition (old but gold):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAz_UvnUeuU

[v8gaz]

the App is now available in the UK. Not that it does much.

[minestrone]

Unfortunately Sonos do seem ripe pickings for somebody. Still can't stop chuckling when I look at their site and see a bundle of two play 1s for exactly the same prices as buying two of them separately.

I think the vultures are starting to gather...

Apple now sells Sonos speakers since the future of audio is wireless - The Verge