Prime Day deals on Amazon devices aren't as attractive as they were before the August price hike, but these discounts are still worth grabbing. Amazon's Prime Day is back for its fall edition, and Amazon Alexa-powered devices are already on sale. But are the sales actually any good? There's already the question of whether you want Alexa in your house, and now it's whether the sales are a real discount or more of a mind game. If you're interested in Amazon's device sales but want the real picture of what the discount is and which devices are worth it, I've got you covered.

Prime Day deals on Amazon devices aren't as attractive as they were before the August price hike, but these discounts are still worth grabbing. Amazon's Prime Day is back for its fall edition, and Amazon Alexa-powered devices are already on sale. But are the sales actually any good? There's already the question of whether you want Alexa in your house, and now it's whether the sales are a real discount or more of a mind game. If you're interested in Amazon's device sales but want the real picture of what the discount is and which devices are worth it, I've got you covered.

When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. All five Fire TV models are on sale right now at Amazon. Grab them before the latest hikes drive their prices up to new highs. Amazon recently hiked prices on many of its products, including Echo, Fire TV, and Kindle devices--you know, the stuff with memory and storage, which is currently experiencing a global shortage thanks to AI data centers gobbling up supply. But even though MSRPs have been bumped up, Amazon is softening the blow with sales on Fire TV devices.

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Alexa Home Theater: Everything you need to know about Amazon's newest Echo feature Testing the spatial surround sound feature with the company's latest smart speakers. Amazon's new Echo Studio is one of two speakers that allow you to use Alexa Home Theater to its full potential. When Amazon's latest Echo speakers arrived in October, a feature the company spent time hyping during its fall devices event was missing. Alexa Home Theater arrived in late November, allowing owners of a recent Fire TV device and either of the new Echo speakers the ability to use up to five units and an Echo Sub as a surround sound setup. The main selling point is that the underlying tech allows you to put the speakers wherever you want and Alexa Home Theater will handle the rest.

Now that Amazon has not one but two Prime Days per year, you might think they'd run out of deals. The world's largest retailer has plenty of deals to go around for Black Friday, including these discounts on their own devices. And for this sale, you don't even have to be a Prime member to snag the savings. Amazon makes a slew of its own hardware, including Echo smart speakers, Fire tablets and Kindles. Most come with the ever-improving and evolving smart AI assistant Alexa, giving you the option of unifying your smart home and controlling it just by talking. Lots of these deals match or even beat Prime Day prices, so it's a great time to buy if you want to give the gift of a Kindle or ring in the new year with an Alexa-enabled Echo Show display.

Black Friday for Echo and Fire TV devices has already started -- Amazon knocked down the prices of many of its Echo gadgets today. Most of the sale prices are the same as we saw during Amazon Prime Day in June, or even better. Discounts of note are the Echo for $60 and the second-generation Echo Show 5 for $45. While the latest Echo Show 8 isn't on sale yet, the first-gen device bundled with a Blink Mini security camera is $80 off as well, bringing it down to $65. You probably already know the deal with Echo devices, but we'll recap here.

It doesn't take much time with Amazon's new Fire TV Stick and Fire TV Stick Lite to understand what they're all about. The $40 third-generation Fire TV Stick is an overdue upgrade to Amazon's best-selling streaming player, replacing its four-year-old processor with one that's much faster. The $30 Fire TV Stick Lite, meanwhile, is a naked attempt to achieve price parity with Roku's budget Express streamer, with the same performance as the standard Stick but a major compromise to its remote control: There are no TV volume or power buttons onboard. Of the two, the Fire TV Stick is much easier to recommend than the Lite version. I've said it before, but having TV controls built into the remote really is worth the extra $10. Whether the new Fire TV Sticks are worth buying over other budget streamers is harder to say, because Amazon is preparing a major software overhaul for later this year.

USA TODAY's Jefferson Graham gives the pros and cons on the new Amazon Amazon Fire TV Recast, a DVR over-the-air television. LOS ANGELES -- The corporate spat between Google and Amazon ends today, with good news for TV viewers. The YouTube app, which brings the world's most popular video network to televisions, will be available, again on Amazon Fire TV devices and branded TVs. The companies announced in April that they had agreed to agree, but didn't offer a firm date for when it would become effective. In January 2018, YouTube vanished from Fire TV devices and the Amazon Echo Show.

The mere existence of Amazon's Fire TV Recast is a testament to how popular cord-cutting has become. Over-the-air DVR was once the domain of geeks whose living rooms ran on Windows Media Center. But as more people have dropped cable TV, we've seen more user-friendly approaches from the likes of TiVo, Tablo, Plex, Channels, and AirTV. Those options presumably helped inspire the Fire TV Recast, a $230 box that records free broadcast TV channels from an antenna and streams the video to Amazon's popular Fire TV devices. The Fire TV Recast is the most mainstream attempt yet at over-the-air DVR, and it shows in Amazon's simple and polished software.