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Re: Google TV

#121

Post by DesiLurker » Wed, Sep 30, 2020, 9:42 PM UTC

God bless the google tech lead whose promotion this iteration of google tv would end up supporting.

Jokes apart, I am not buying that this time is different. as much as it pains me to say, google needs a little power to the product managers to push through a consistent vision of consumer product side.

Re: Google TV

#122

Post by markstos » Wed, Sep 30, 2020, 9:43 PM UTC

adrianmonk wrote: post #67

Milestones in Google branding: 2010-05-20: Google introduces Google TV at Google I/O ( https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/announcing-google-tv... , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASZbArr7vdI ) 2014-06-24: Google introduces Android TV at Google I/O ( https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2020/09/introducin... , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3dCUPeyhag ), a rebranding of Google TV 2017-02-28: Google introd…

Chromecast milestones should be in this list as well, just to add to the chaos.

Re: Google TV

#123

Post by notJim » Wed, Sep 30, 2020, 9:43 PM UTC

stickyricky wrote: post #20

This might be the wrong place to complain about this issue. But "smart" TVs need to be replaced with "dumb TV + set top box" bundles. As it is now, the best panels are obsolete after a year.

Gotta disagree with this, I'm very happy with the integrated Roku in my TCL TV. And the TV still has HDMI ports, so I don't see how it's obsolete if I ever want to stop using the Roku.

Re: Google TV

#124

Post by ronyfadel » Wed, Sep 30, 2020, 9:44 PM UTC

It looks like a shameless ripoff of Apple TV. I wouldn’t have been surprised if it were made by Huawei (or similar); but for Google to stoop to that level? Tsk tsk tsk

Re: Google TV

#125

Post by markstos » Wed, Sep 30, 2020, 9:44 PM UTC

Navarr wrote: post #69

adrianmonk wrote: post #67

Milestones in Google branding: 2010-05-20: Google introduces Google TV at Google I/O ( https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/announcing-google-tv... , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASZbArr7vdI ) 2014-06-24: Google introduces Android TV at Google I/O ( https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2020/09/introducin... , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3dCUPeyhag ), a rebranding of Google TV 2017-02-28: Google introd…

Google TV is a launcher for Android TV, so far as I can tell. Android TV is not being rebranded, as it is the OS - but Google TV is the "Google Experience" on Android TV. To make this more complicated/interesting - Google renamed the Play Movies and TV app to "Google TV." I'm guessing so you can have Google TV on Google TV? Will the Play Movies app on my existing Android TV open the Google TV launcher like shown off…

Thank you. Can I put on the phone with my parents so you can you explain this to them? Also, make sure to mention "Chromecast" as well.

Re: Google TV

#126

Post by cafed00d » Wed, Sep 30, 2020, 9:46 PM UTC

adrianmonk wrote: post #67

Milestones in Google branding: 2010-05-20: Google introduces Google TV at Google I/O ( https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/announcing-google-tv... , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASZbArr7vdI ) 2014-06-24: Google introduces Android TV at Google I/O ( https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2020/09/introducin... , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3dCUPeyhag ), a rebranding of Google TV 2017-02-28: Google introd…

Google needs a marketing department. Badly! I mean, all that insanely cool technology and even the geeks on HN are confused how to use it.

Re: Google TV

#127

Post by mandeepj » Wed, Sep 30, 2020, 9:47 PM UTC

They need to hire somebody like "Google program advocate manager for TV" to get their branding fixed :-) //sarcasm

Re: Google TV

#128

Post by tapsboy » Wed, Sep 30, 2020, 9:48 PM UTC

adrianmonk wrote: post #67

Milestones in Google branding: 2010-05-20: Google introduces Google TV at Google I/O ( https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/announcing-google-tv... , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASZbArr7vdI ) 2014-06-24: Google introduces Android TV at Google I/O ( https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2020/09/introducin... , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3dCUPeyhag ), a rebranding of Google TV 2017-02-28: Google introd…

I think, it is an industry wide problem

https://dcurt.is/apple-tv-all-the-way-down

Re: Google TV

#129

Post by Traster » Wed, Sep 30, 2020, 9:48 PM UTC

simonkafan wrote: post #99

Does someone want to set up a stadiacountdown.com for Google TV?

The fact I had to basically google "What happened to stadia" means I suspect we can probably reuse whatever server was hosting stadiacountdown.com

Re: Google TV

#130

Post by vel0city » Wed, Sep 30, 2020, 9:49 PM UTC

roneythomas6 wrote: post #60

ketralnis wrote: post #32

I owned the Logitech Google TV which I bought for about $300 early in its lifespan. After about a year they shipped some really bad updates to it that made it so slow that it was essentially unuseable and removed several key features, and then never shipped another update to it again. Logitech and Google both lost interest in it and after not long all of the apps like Netflix and even Google's own Youtube stopped wor…

My Chromecast from 2013 still works.

The only issue I have with OG Chromecasts is that YouTube channels with 1080p60 videos tend to make the system stutter like crazy. Other than that the original Chromecasts I bought still work pretty much flawlessly.