Google just deprecated Android TV as well: https://9to5google.com/2020/09/30/android-tv-replaced-google...
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Re: Google TV
#142People still watch TV? I haven't turned mine on in years.
I have a large monitor in my living room that shows content from various entertainment services. What's the nearest equivalent you've got to that?
I also have several other screens that show the same entertainment services (with minor inexplicable differences).
Some are called "TVs", some are called "tablets", "laptops" or "phones" but they all seem to do roughly the same job in this regard.
(I also keep reading about a thing called a "notebook computer" but no human being I know has ever used that phrase. Is it different to a "laptop"?)
Re: Google TV
#143Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
I swear I've read this comment like five times, because you seem to actually know what's going on... but it's left me only more confused. What is a launcher? If Android TV is an OS, then what is a launcher for an OS? And I guess you're as confused as I am as to also what this has to do with the previous Play Movies and TV app.
The same could be said about Apple TV (the device, software) and Apple TV+ (the streaming service).
Re: Google TV
#144I 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 Nvidia Shield TV from 2015 is still doing great
Sounds like this deprecates it though :(
https://9to5google.com/2020/09/30/android-tv-replaced-google...
Re: Google TV
#145Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
I swear I've read this comment like five times, because you seem to actually know what's going on... but it's left me only more confused. What is a launcher? If Android TV is an OS, then what is a launcher for an OS? And I guess you're as confused as I am as to also what this has to do with the previous Play Movies and TV app.
No wonder you're confused, the website is a bit unclear until the end.
It's just like a Chromecast (HDMI dongle), but running Android TV.
The closest comparable thing may be Nvidia's Shield.
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#146People still watch TV? I haven't turned mine on in years.
I recently bought a half dozen large TVs, and I stream randomized playlist folders of non-television-programming video content to them from a server I keep in the garage.
Some just 24/7 display live streams from YouTube of famous places.
TVs are cool. Television is garbage.
Re: Google TV
#147It 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
Haven't they had a thing like this for years? Is this different to the thing before or just a renaming?
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#148I was very confused then I remembered I was subscribed to _YouTube TV_ not _Google TV_. Then I was confused again- is this an actual TV? Oh it's a dongle- no, wait, that's a Chromecast with Google TV. Anyway, I guess this is a new content app like Hulu.
I think this may be closer to an Android TV replacement? but with seemingly less features. Is my 65" TV I splashed out on going to stop getting updates now...
Yes, of course - if not now, in two years. Smart TVs rarely get updates for longer than that.
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#149Why does google get it's tld?
Re: Google TV
#150Earlier quoted context omitted.
My Nvidia Shield TV from 2015 is still doing great
That's the crapshoot, isn't it. Would you have been able to know in 2015 that the Nvidia product was going to be supported, but the Logitech one would be abandoned? Real question actually. I doubt it, but that's a weakly held opinion.
Your chances are better when you can control the firmware yourself.
But ... DRM.