We round up day 1 of the CES 2015 stuff that has a shot of actually shipping! Sony’s new Walkman will blow you away, Dish wants cord cutters to Sling it, HP goes cheap & Google wants you to cast it!

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Dish’s Sling TV Sells Cable Channels on the Web for $20 | Re/code

Dish’s “Sling TV”* offering, which the company says will launch “soon,” comes with 10 notESPN channels, including the Food Network, CNN and the Travel Channel, and the ability to add more networks for additional fees.

Sling TV also won’t do you any good if you want to watch your local broadcast stations or any of the broadcast networks. So no local news, no “Good Wife” and no Sunday NFL games, unless you’re going to buy an antenna. On the other hand,

HP takes on Chromeboxes with $180, Windows-based Stream Mini PC

The Stream Mini is essentially a NUC-sized micro PC with a Celeron 2957U, 2GB of DDR3L/1600 and a 32GB M.2 SSD. In addition to the unit, you also get 200GB of Microsoft OneDrive storage free for two years as well as a $25 gift card to the Windows Store

The unit has Gigabit ethernet, four USB 3.0 ports, integrated 802.11n, Bluetooth 4.0, an SD card reader, combo audio jack for headphone and microphone and DisplayPort 1.2 and an HDMI 1.4 port. Windows 8.1 with Bing is thrown in too.

This is the new Sony Walkman | The Verge

The new Walkman ZX2 is real, and it’s designed exclusively with high-end audiophiles in mind — as Sony puts it themselves, this is “the fruit of continuous refinement in high audio quality technologies.”

Everything around the device is meant for an optimal audio experience. Specs-wise, the new Walkman supports DSD, WAV, AIFF, FLAC, Apple Lossless, and more. It supports Bluetooth for wireless streaming and NFC for one-touch connection to speakers and headphones.

All this high fidelity comes at a price. While the recent Walkman A17 comes in at around $300, the ZX2 will launch in the Spring for over $1,119.99.

It’s running years-old Android — 4.2 Jelly Bean, to be exact, which first debuted in November 2012. And while you can download and play apps from Google Play, this isn’t meant to match wits with today’s smartphones.

Google Cast will offer direct streaming from apps to Sony, LG, and Denon audio products this spring

At CES today, Google announced Google Cast for audio, which lets you play back sound from apps directly to speakers, sound bars, and A/V receivers. Sony, LG, and HEOS by Denon will be the first to offer “Google Cast Ready” products this spring, Google says.

The feature will work just like Google’s Chromecast streaming stick: Tap the “cast” button in an app on Android, iOS, or the web, and select a Google Cast-supported device. The speakers pull content directly from the cloud, not your device, “so you’ll get the best audio quality and can freely multi-task on your phone, tablet, or laptop, all without straining the battery,” Tomer Shekel, Product Manager of Google Cast for audio, said in a statement.

Google Cast for audio uses the same technology that powers the Chromecast. By offering it directly in products made by audio manufacturers, however, the company makes sure it isn’t the only one developing compatible hardware.

Google is naturally promising additional Google Cast Ready products, saying that “more brands” will offer them “later in 2015.”

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Stinging from a Build conference hangover, the guys focus on their current disappoints with Microsoft.

Then Mike gets a new OYUA box and has a few surprises, plus your emails, and more!

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• Ouya Reviews: Android-Based Ouya Gaming Console | BostInno

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