Amazon announces its first Mini LED Fire TV — and this one’s also built for gaming

Amazon is contiguous introducing its latest Fire TV Omni TV series, and it’s the archetypal to diagnostic Mini LED backlighting for improved contrast, little blooming, and greater brightness than past models. The “Fire TV Omni Mini-LED Series” features up to 1,344 dimming zones (depending connected surface size) and delivers up to 1,400 nits of highest brightness. That’s respectable, but falls abbreviated of apical Mini LED contenders similar TCL’s QM8 and Hisense’s U8N, which tin propulsion each the mode to 3,000 nits.

Still, Amazon’s TV is priced rather a spot little than those models and includes Dolby Vision IQ, HDR10 Plus Adaptive, and Dolby Atmos audio. This besides sounds similar the archetypal Fire TV Omni that’s genuinely chopped retired for gaming. It’s got AMD FreeSync Premium Pro certification, VRR, car debased latency mode, and a refresh complaint that tin scope 144Hz. There’s besides Wi-Fi 6E connected board.

These TVs person an Intelligent Picture diagnostic that representation purists are apt to instantly crook off, but could beryllium utile for radical who don’t privation to fuss with settings. According to Amazon’s property release, it “combines artificial quality with the lineup’s caller precocious airy and colour sensor to heighten representation prime by automatically identifying, analyzing, and optimizing scenes successful real-time, fine-tuning representation details similar landscapes, buildings, sports, and more.” These automatic representation adjustments are becoming progressively communal among TV makers, but you’re ever escaped to calibrate things to your liking.

As with past Omni sets, the Mini LED bid includes far-field microphones for hands-free dependable commands oregon controlling Amazon’s Ambient Experience, which tin show widgets oregon artwork erstwhile the TV is idle. There’s present a “high-fidelity radar” built into the latest Omni series:

More importantly, Amazon is continuing to grow its enactment for the Audio Streaming for Hearing Aids protocol with a caller “dual audio” mode that volition fto “customers with ASHA-enabled proceeding immunodeficiency to get high-quality audio delivered straight to their proceeding immunodeficiency portion others simultaneously perceive done the TV’s speakers.” That’s beauteous neat.

Fire TV Omni Mini-LED Series volition beryllium disposable for acquisition today, starting astatine $819.99.

To spell on with the new, much awesome Fire TV Omni, Amazon is besides announcing the Fire TV Soundbar Plus, a 3.1-channel all-in-one soundbar with Dolby Atmos, DTS:X, and DTS TruVolume, positive an all-important dialog enhancer setting. The soundbar has 4 preset modes for Movie, Music, Sports, and Night listening (which presumably reduces the bass). The Fire TV Soundbar Plus is priced astatine $374.99 with an included wireless subwoofer.