- Amazon’s flagship four TV Omni with mini-led get two new features
- Interactive art adds some movement -triggered movement to your surrounding screen
- Dual-Audio arrives and lets the TV send audio to a hearing aid, and its speakers at the same time
Amazon only entered the mini-led TV market with its own four TV OMNI brand last year, but still it turned out that the first entry into a crowded market was not the best in its line-up, but a compelling budget opportunity.
Now Amazon’s rolling is two upgrades to his best TV and you don’t have to pay anything extra to use any of them. As we’ve seen of Roku to Amazon in the past, this is a free upgrade to the platform that drives the television.
Until now, you have been able to set a static scene for four TVs omni mini-led to show when it is not active. These came in the form of works of art, photographs -akin to Samsung’s frame -TV or Hisense’s art -tv -or even stack -widgets to make the TV a huge smart display. But with the new update, Amazon injects some movement in the artwork.
There are now 12 pieces of ‘interactive art’ that Amazon promises will make four TVs a “dynamic work of art.” These will interact with movement in the space where the TV is as it tracks movement using a high-fidelity radar sensor built into the device. This means that if you choose a koi fishing scene, these beings can swim across the screen, or a butterfly may flutter in via another choice.
It seems pretty neat and lives within four TV’s surrounding experience, and as with everything on four TVs you can ask Alexa to open it and then choose an interactive art setting. You can also use the remote control and via ‘Quick Settings’ suggest a new type of art to choose from one of the 12.
Interactive art also does not replace the existing options-you can still choose from artworks and photographs, but you can also ask the TV to whip a work of art through “Ai art.”
The second upgrade is one that Amazon first announced back in December 2024, and that is that four TVs omni mini-led can send two streams of audio.
A stream of audio can be broadcast from the TV’s built-in speakers, while another can be streamed to hearing aids via the ‘Dual-Audio’ feature. This is a long-awaited, customer-requested addition to four TV’s accessibility feature sets.
It’s great to watch Amazon now roll this out to four TV OMNI mini-joints, and it will work with any compatible hearing aid.
First you connect the hearing aid to the TV, but to turn on double audio you can do so in quick settings or main setting panel under accessibility and select the feature.
To find double sound or interactive art, make sure your four TV OMNI mini-LED runs the latest version of the operating system. Amazon has recently rolled a software update, so check it and trigger an update if available. From there you will find these two new features that make Amazon’s best TV even better.
