07-16-2018, 05:39 PM | #2956 |
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Neither am I per se, but I always check a few items to see if they are on sale. But even the regular website is totally screwed up at the moment. Sure tired of seeing doggie photos and that "we are sorry" statement. I also noticed that the few Prime Deal items I looked at were bogus as for as the savings. They give a list price which is way inflated over the price that item typically sells for, then try to pawn off a few dollars savings as a 44% sale when it might be a 20% sale at most. Typical Amazon BS.
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07-16-2018, 10:40 PM | #2957 |
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This may have something to with the Amazon issues today:
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07-17-2018, 10:09 AM | #2959 |
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I wonder if perhaps it could be related to a concerted major hacking attack against Amazon. In this day and age it would not surprise me to see a foreign, or even American, group try to make a statement or simply attempt to disrupt a major American business on a key day for them. I doubt this is the case though. I suspect it was simply Amazon not being adequately prepared--as usual.
I was still having major issues with the Amazon USA site even late into the evening. If I knew what I wanted to look up I could type that specific item and it usually found it. But trying to browse deals was a joke. For example, I typed "SD card" into the search box under the Prime Day category and it returned either the doggie pictures and "sorry" message or it returned a page showing about 400 pages of hits, but only the first page would display, all the rest returned doggie pictures and "sorry" message! Cute dogs though. I haven't tried much today, but so far no doggie pics. I did manage to find and buy a Sandisk 32GB Extreme Pro SD card, but of course it wasn't on sale. Most of the sale items I looked at were not very good deals, and many had inflated list prices. But as I recall, this is typical for Amazon's Prime Day event--mostly hype with very few good deals. The best deals are around Black Friday and Monday and during Lightning sales. |
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TM, when you list DirectTV as a built in app, what do you mean? Can Alexa officially control DirecTV equipment now like it can Dish?
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You can now use Alexa to control your DirecTV set-top box
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Charter/Spectrum says they will soon allow customers to use the newest AppleTV to replace their Spectrum set-top box. That would be something to look forward to in the future if we could substitute the crappy, low-end boxes used by TV services with our own. We would potentially get faster operation, better operation, and not have to pay the $10/mo fees to rent a worn out POS from the TV service provider. They would need to allow for DVR recording though, otherwise it would be a no go for me. I rarely see anything worth watching, but then when I do there always seems to be multiple shows airing at the same time. DVR is a must.
I would also like to see Alexa and other similar devices be able to control media streaming services like Sling, DirectvNow, Playstation Vue, Hulu, Netflix, etc. There is some capability already for Hulu and Netflix, but not enough. But at any rate, they need to drastically improve the ability of Alexa type systems to interact with other services. Plus the one thing that will always be problematic is that these voice command services are connected to huge retail services, so more likely than not they will always push their paid services into the forefront. |
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Alexa can crank the bass on your Echo when you ask
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Amazon’s Echo Show now lets you use Alexa by tapping instead of talking
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Wonder if it will be available for the Show Mode on my Fire? Would be handy in the kitchen when I don't want one of the other devices to answer.
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Me: Alexa, add more bass.
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