Amazon Alexa Update Brings Assistant's Skills To Home Theater TV, AV Receivers

Amazon's Alexa has made it onto a variety of platforms in the past few months and the virtual assistant will head into home TVs next. In a post Thursday, Amazon confirmed that Alexa will now be able to support home theater equipment like TVs and AV receivers natively. As part of these new functions, users can now call for Alexa to control functions like device power and playback. These skills can also be natively controlled straight from Alexa without having to go through a secondary skill prompt. At launch, the skills will be available on devices from Sony, Logitech and BroadLink.