Author: Chris Welch
Image: Altice
Altice, the cable provider that owns Optimum and Suddenlink, is planning to release a smart speaker with Amazon’s Alexa assistant built in. The device, called the Altice Amplify, will allow customers to change channels and control other functions of their TV without reaching for the remote. It’ll also offer quick access to popular streaming apps like Netflix on the company’s Altice One cable system.
But Altice is trying to differentiate in an area that you wouldn’t expect from a cable company: sound quality. The Amplify will feature technology from Devialet, a French company (that specializes in high-fi audio. A few years ago, my colleague Dan Seifert wrote about how Devialet was trying to put its sound into a range of products, and the...
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Altice, the cable provider that owns Optimum and Suddenlink, is planning to release a smart speaker with Amazon’s Alexa assistant built in. The device, called the Altice Amplify, will allow customers to change channels and control other functions of their TV without reaching for the remote. It’ll also offer quick access to popular streaming apps like Netflix on the company’s Altice One cable system.
But Altice is trying to differentiate in an area that you wouldn’t expect from a cable company: sound quality. The Amplify will feature technology from Devialet, a French company (that specializes in high-fi audio. A few years ago, my colleague Dan Seifert wrote about how Devialet was trying to put its sound into a range of products, and the...
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