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Best Buy Forms Amazon Exclusive Partnership

Amazon's Fire TV platform was the apparent winner, Roku TV the loser, in Wednesday's announcement that Amazon will partner with Best Buy in an exclusive multiyear arrangement to sell Insignia- and Toshiba-branded Fire TV Edition smart TVs. The companies said…

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Fire TV Edition smart TVs, with Alexa voice control, will be available exclusively via the retailer. The newly designed smart TVs might appeal to cord cutters. “Connect any HD antenna and instantly use Alexa to search for and watch broadcast TV,” they said, along with streaming content from Netflix, Prime Video, HBO, PlayStation Vue and Hulu, among others.