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Assistant voice control] YouTube launches today on Fire TV, while Amazon Prime Video comes to Chromecast and Android TVs

Jarvis

July 10, 2019

It’s been just a few months since Google and Amazon determined to put down their weapons and collaborate to make everybody’s lives simpler. After years of the 2 giants battling it out, banning their providers from their competitor’s platform, and basically forcing customers to select one camp over the opposite, the settlement was each sudden and lengthy overdue. Today, we get to reap the fruits of that accord.

YouTube app on Fire TV.

First, the YouTube app is formally again on the Fire TV. It will seem on the Your Apps and Channels row on suitable units worldwide, and all you want to do is choose it, obtain it, register, and begin utilizing it. If not, you’ll find it on the Amazon Appstore. The app helps up to 4K HDR video at 60fps and is suitable with Alexa, so you may search, begin taking part in, and management playback with voice instructions.

The Fire TV Stick (2nd Gen), Fire TV Stick 4K, Fire TV Cube, Fire TV Stick Basic Edition, plus Toshiba, Insignia, Element, and Westinghouse Fire TV Edition sensible TVs at the moment are supported. More Fire TV units will probably be added sooner or later. Later within the 12 months, the YouTube TV and YouTube Kids apps will observe the common app and launch on Fire TV as properly.

Amazon Prime Video app on Android TV.

On the opposite hand, Amazon is including Chromecast compatibility to its Prime Video app on Android (5.0 and above) and iOS (10.1 or increased). The replace will start rolling out today and upon getting it, you may find a way to solid content material from Prime Video to first-party Chromecasts and different Chromecast built-in units.

Additionally, the Prime Video app for Android TV is spreading past the units the place it is at the moment accessible and ought to be prepared to set up on all types of Android TV set-top bins, streaming sticks, and TVs.

The up to date, castable app (Thanks: Jeffrey)

In addition to merely bringing us this oft-requested, long-awaited casting performance to Amazon’s app, Google’s additionally taking steps to correctly combine Amazon content material on the identical degree of a number of the different largest names in streaming media. And that spells full compatibility with Assistant voice instructions on Google Home.

After linking the Amazon app to your Google account, you may find a way to say issues like “play Jack Ryan on Amazon on the TV” and have the service correctly reply.

It might have taken endlessly and a day to get Amazon movies on Chromecast, but it surely’s good to see all of it lastly coming collectively so properly.