Amazon announces new features, partnerships and experiences at CES 2024
This week at CES, Amazon has been excited to announce new features and experiences for customers, as well as global partnerships which showcase capabilities and integrations that leverage Amazon services. Highlights include:
- Panasonic Smart TVs with Fire TV Built In. Amazon and Panasonic have announced a global collaboration to bring Fire TV built in to its new smart TVs starting in 2024. Panasonic also revealed two new flagship OLED smart TVs, Panasonic Z95A and Z93A, with Fire TV built in. With Fire TV built in and access to Alexa, customers can easily launch apps, play music, search for titles, and control compatible smart home devices using far-field voice control with Alexa, marking the first OLEDs from Panasonic with this feature. Learn more about this exciting global partnership here.
- Matter Casting on Fire TV and Echo Show. Amazon remain committed to using open technology standards to give customers more choice over the devices and services used in their homes. At CES, Amazon announced Matter Casting, which enables customers to cast content to Fire TV and Echo Show 15 devices directly from supported streaming apps on iOS and Android. Matter Casting is now available for customers around the world who want to cast Prime Video content from iOS and Android devices to Echo Show 15 and will be coming to compatible Fire TV devices in the coming months.
Further details on Amazon’s CES 2024 announcements can be found in the blog post here.