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hey this is Dan Seaford with the verge and I'm here in Seattle at Amazon's offices where they've just announced a ton of new products for the holiday season there's so many products they're all on the verge calm I don't know if I can remember them all but one of the biggest new products is a new update to the echo show now this is Amazon's scream product that kind of is like if you had an echo and had a screen at the same time and all the different things that you could do with that now they release an echo show about a little over a year ago now and so this is their second version and some of the things that they've added to this are pretty important the first and most obvious thing is it's got a way bigger screen this is now a 10 inch HD display as opposed to the 7 inch screen before it also has a new refined design it's kind of still got that little wedge shape going on but on the back here you can see it's got this nice fabric finish as opposed to the plastic that was before it's really quite nice looking it comes in both white or black and then what they've really done as well is really upgraded the audio quality out of this you've got to side firing speakers in the back and then a passive radiator for bass so when you're listening to music or watching TV or watching a video on this you can get a lot better quality of sound then you could with the original echo show now you can also still do the same types of things with like video chat you can drop in and call other echo shows or echo products or echo or Amazon Alexa apps on mobile devices and things like that and they've updated a ton of the user interactions and software on this including things like adding a browser so now if I say Alexa open silk and if my voice doesn't crack Alexa open silk so just like the fire TV it's got Amazon silk browser as well as the Firefox browser available and then you can browse things like YouTube so you can watch youtube videos on your echo show which has been kind of a difficult thing to do in the past you can also of course browse to any other website you want you just type in address to the website that you want and hit go and you're good to go so that's really nice thing to add it's one of the things I'm missing from the echo show is ability to watch youtube videos of course you can also watch all of the Amazons fire or excuse me Amazon Prime video content on here as well as things like from Hulu and other over-the-top video services it also integrates with a bunch of other new products that Amazon announced like a PVR that pulls in OTA signals from the air and allows you to record them and then you can watch them on your echo show now that's the echo show this is gonna be two hundred and twenty nine dollars it's the same price as the prior model believe it's available for order real soon is gonna be shipping next month but that's only one of the many things that you've got here so we've added a lot of other stuff to look at too so in addition to the new echo show there's also a neat echo dot and it looks like this and you can see that compared to the old echo dot which is Amazon's most popular echo device you see the new echo dot it's quite a bit larger it's got a little bit more rounded of a design it's got a fabric finish it's really nice-looking but the big difference here is sound quality Amazon says that it's got a much larger speaker inside and it's got a more powerful output and you can really hear the difference if you ask you simple things like Alexa what's the weather currently in Seattle it's 57 degrees Farenheit with cloudy skies you can expect more of the same today with a high of 63 degrees in the look so even like voice responses like that sounds so much better on this echo dot than the prior one and of course if you're listening to music it sounds even better than that so I can do something like Alexa play Drake shuffling songs by Drake on Amazon music so it sounds a lot better that's obvious Alexis stop but the other thing is that you're not losing anything from this echo dot to the if you're upgrading from the old one you still have the ability to output to even larger speakers with a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack you can still Bluetooth pair this to a bigger speaker if you want and it's got four microphones instead of the seven that the old model had which might make a difference in how well it's able to hear you from across the room but we've seen a bunch of products that like the Google home that only have two microphones they're able to hear you pretty well so that's probably too much of a not too much of a concern and then of course now if you really want to go nuts with your sound you can pair two of these in a stereo setup and you can have twice as much sound and with left and right channels and you can add the new echo subwoofer to them so you can have an actual 2.1 surround sound or a 2.1 sound system with just a couple of echo dots now just like the echo show this is gonna be available for pre-order today maybe shipping next month its $49.99 so it's the same price as before this is looking pretty cool so then the third new echo product that Amazon is coming out with is a new echo plus now this is an update to the echo plus that was released last year the most obvious thing different with it it's got a new design it's squatter it's more rounded it kind of looks like the standard echo now it's got this nice fabric cover but importantly it also has much improved sound it's got a larger more powerful speaker in there so it provides better volume and bass out of the unit itself just like the other echo dot and the other echo devices you can pair two of these together in stereo now and you can add the echo so now because this is an echo plus it still has the smart home integration into it so it ships with a light bulb that you can instantly set up just with your voice which is really easy and cool and then it also has a temperature sensor inside of it so you can read the temperature of an exact room Alexa what's the temperature in here inside it's sixty seven point six and you can also set Alexa routines based on the temperature so if it gets too cold you can kick on a space heater or if it's too hot turn on an air conditioner something like that now the new echo plus is gonna be available for one 49.99 s available to order today to shipping next month just like all the rest of the and it looks like a pretty decent upgrade to the existing echo plus but you've heard me talk a lot about the echo sub and with these other products and here it is this is the echo sub you compare this with any echo device whether it's a dot or an echo plus we're gonna go show and you can add better lower frequencies response it's pretty big device obviously something to keep on the floor it sells for one $29.99 you can order it starting today be shipping next month but that's not the only home audio products that Amazon is out there's actually a bunch more especially if you have existing home stereo equipment and speakers and here we've got the echo link amp the echo link and the echo input then the echo link amp is ideal if you have non powered passive speakers you can plug them into the back here and then it has a 60 watt Class D amplifier inside of it so you can integrate those speakers with your whole home audio smart system the echo link is pretty simple it just is basically the same thing without the amplifier this sells for $2.99 this sells for $1.99 and then the echo input which is basically like very similar to the chromecast Audio from Google you plug it directly into your sound system this does have microphones on it so you can add voice control directly to that it's kind of like using us a little bit similar idea to have a lot of people use the echo dot now but in a smaller package and that's available for $34.99 did we get it so that was a ton of stuff but it's really only the tip of the iceberg of what Amazon has announced today there's a ton of other new products and services coming out all tied to Alexa and all tied to the Ecco brand be sure to check out the site the verge comm for all the more information on that and we're gonna have more videos for you so stay tuned on youtube.com