 Welcome back to another review and today I want to take a look at the Echo Show 5. So I had the Echo spot before and then I switched to the Echo Show even though I liked the Echo spot a lot because it looked so retro with that awesome round screen and speaking of screen you're wondering why would I have that and especially watching movies on there where the screen is so small and it's round and you can zoom in and it's kind of cut off and blah blah blah but that's not why I was using it. It wasn't just to watch movies because it was kind of useless. It was mainly to listen to movies. Now I used it for Alexa stuff, flash briefings for news and all kinds of things that have this here. I mean my review closet over there as I review it's over there technically. So as I do things in the office as I do some editing or something else I listen to the music or movies or ask about things but at the end I thought why not this one because the screen is a bit bigger the sound is a bit better everything just a bit better and it's not that much more expensive. That being said you're probably wondering how does this relate to animation to be honest not that much the thing is with the previous one because the screen was surround you can't really watch anything on it so to bring this back to animation with this you can technically watch it on the screen again why would you it's not gonna sit down and watch a movie on this but I wanted to show this because I love listening to movies especially movies obviously that I haven't seen before stuff that I haven't seen TV shows whatever I watch it on my projector and I you know I want to listen and analyze and all that good stuff but as I animate my personal stuff at home or even work from home because we can do remote login and working so as I work on Star Wars right now I can work from home and since no one is around I can bring up the music again there's better quality around this just comes in when I can just say Alexa play a lot of times it's demolition man don't judge me and then I can just listen to that or Ghostbusters or Indiana Jones or Star Wars or whatever and it gets me in a specific mood and helps me sometimes to animate to be in a specific mood or just kind of if you do some polished stuff or something that's kind of just going through a list and cleaning things up it's kind of boring and I want something to listen to so it's not that boring and this is why I'm showing you this again this is extremist objective and I don't know if this is something for you but maybe it is maybe you are kind of like me and you like listening to TV shows or movies or music and all that helps and I use this when I'm cleaning in the office or anything that I do in the office and I just wanted to listen to something in the background because I'm clearly easily bored then I use the Echo Spa and now I'm going to use the Echo Show so this is brand new unopened I'll show you what's in there just in case you're interested in this all right so you got this here it's a plastic strip already took out which when you open it up oh look at my face you have that in here let's take this out you got that and you got instructions what is all this here you got that Echo Show paper stuff gone and the box otherwise is empty out all right you got your power source make sure you take the plastic wrapping off in case this gets hot you don't just the melt trash oh it's gonna say there's there's probably like a zippy on there all right fairly long cable plug this in and then here is the actual thing of course more wrapping let's take this out trash and here it is very shiny you will see all kinds of reflections in there kind of interesting texture on the back fabric here you have if you have a base you can put the base on there and it clicks on there same thing with the Echo Spa so you can kind of swivel it up and down so it's oh you can see nice reflection on my camera all fairly simple you have a camera opening and closing function here you got your on off forget volume and mute that seems to be it on the back you have your audio connections and usp and your power source plug it in it's gonna load for a little bit get your logo and my reflected iPhone in there as it has to boot and i got to put in all my settings let's do a welcome sound i'm gonna set this up it's gonna take a little bit so i'm gonna fast forward that's right through all the boring bits as i'm waiting though it's a very clear screen welcome to jondany house this echo show five is registered to me if that's you tap yes and so on you got the instructions here i will say yes that is me camera off you got a little display here as you do this it's also displayed on there i'm gonna turn this off i am in north america yes i'm gonna continue dining room bedroom lounge study hall sitting room basement garden upstairs custom study it's in my study all right very boring name device updates available of course nowadays the moment you buy something updating this device it's updating it's telling me but anyway i was going to save you for alexa interrupted me rudely those bing sounds are almost like in the in an airplane you can take your seatbelt off now 51 percent complete as is updates one thing that the echo spot back in the day didn't do is you can't really upload your own things onto amazon maybe like an amazon locker like a video locker type of thing where you can just upload your own stuff so if you have any specific animation clips or something that you always kind of want to watch and listen and anything custom so far hasn't been there at the same time it's been a while because i sold my echo spot and i bought this and it's actually been sitting here because i wanted to unbox it and then use it for the review so maybe by now things have changed we shall see 95 percent almost there 98 99 100 this could take up to 10 minutes or more downloading system updates 100 complete lies lies you can't just sit on 100 percent for a couple minutes it's not complete as i install the updates this device will restart twice i'm back let's continue holy moly i made the mistake of holding this i thought it's going to be faster for a kind of a timelapse type of thing oh oh tired i'm clearly a very sensitive animator introducing this this brief video will highlight we're glad you're here it's time to get you and your echo show five off and running here are three things to try first number one use your voice you could say something like alexa play happy music okay here's a station you might like 80s pop on amazon music number two try using the touchscreen number three choose your perfect clock face to get started say alexa customize my clock this is just the beginning of things you can do with your echo show five for more things to try just ask alexa what can i say welcome to your new echo show five why thank you the touchscreen is pretty responsive this device is ready is it though all right that seems to be the default screen let's see if it just updated and it knows mean and is logged in like how would it know let's try it alexa play the movie demolition man here's demolition man so i listened to this movie a lot so i just picked up where it left off so before that you had a very minimal menu here i can swipe to the right and have this swipe down and you got your basic brightness let's change it a little bit do not disturb and other settings yes this is my network name you can change all kinds of things this is pretty much the same this time though because it's a different and bigger screen more options than i have before and it goes probably into your amazon library okay so the thing now with amazon and itunes and all the other ones they're all combined so you my itunes library shows up on amazon so these are actually the ones that i got yesterday five bucks what we watched last time so this is kind of an interesting mix there let's try it again alexa play the movie how to train your dragon there are multiple videos that match your request here's what i found that is true alexa play this here's how to train your dragon the hidden world turn on the volume here but you can say alexa volume 10 not bad alexa mute it does work and i'm muting this mainly because i don't want to get a copyright strike and all kinds of stuff but you can have this you can scroll forward you can see that loads pretty fast not too shabby screen is cool though nice and bright as a whole i think this is obviously much cooler than the round screen in terms of watching things because every now and then i put something on just kind of listen to it and i work and i go oh and then i end up watching it because i'm an idiot i could just watch on the big screen but i'm easily distracted clearly alexa home here we are i'm gonna customize this a bit more when you mute you got that red line there it's not listening alexa not listening i'm not listening alexa it's very rude i turn her off so you have camera off you have sound off and you will see this is a physical color this is the screen this lights up so i'm gonna set up all my flash briefings hopefully it should technically all load maybe try it alexa update jean denis here's what's new i'm not jean denis alexa from this day in disney history on september 28th in 1982 annual passports are officially introduced at walt disney world to provide yearly access to guests who find themselves visiting the resort alexa next from the walt daily hi everyone if you're a vintage epcot lover you probably have a place still left in your heart for the universe of energy this opening day pavilion was in future world alexa next good quality and i want the sound from this day in star wars history on september 28 2010 jet i pack but i can't play all kinds of stuff because copyright strike c synthesis shut down all kinds of things but as a whole so far so good size is okay really depends on what you're listening to that one flash one about disney the quality was actually very cool but again this is not to me a home theater thing where i'm going to put this on the table and watch it like that i mean my phone is same screen as this fast forward to june 2020 i've been living with the echo 5 through the quarantine a lockdown for you know as we've all been a couple months now and i've been using it a lot more because i'm constantly in my office here and it's the same opinion i think it's still really cool the screen is neat again it's not my home theater setup but i come in i work and i put on music and i mostly listen to either tv shows or movies and for that it's just really really cool i just like working with a certain mood and extra sound and music and sound effects and i just like that so for that it's really really cool and if you check online it's 6999 on amazon when i'm going to put a link in the description in case you want to check it out there have been no technical hiccups or anything with hardware i'm going to move it around it's right now right there sometimes you put it downstairs in the gym or something or or in the living room when my little one can play around and he likes to ask her all kinds of silly questions so it's fairly sturdy and works all the time as mentioned before my amazon and itunes library are combined from most of the movies and music that i have so it's been fairly useful speaking of useful i hope that i hope that this was useful i'm not sure how i can plug my workshop with the echo show five but just in case i have workshops if you work into animation then the tech review but either way if you're still watching this thank you so much feel free to subscribe so you don't miss any of my uploads and that's it from me and i will see you hopefully in my next upload