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Re: Google TV

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Post by Tijdreiziger »

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…

Ah, I see Google is copying the Apple TV naming strategy.

Re: Google TV

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Post by Tijdreiziger »

fivre wrote: post #165
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 want a YouTube RED original series, where they just have the YouTube RED, YouTube TV, and Google TV product managers engage in a bareknuckle octagon brawl as a metaphor for internal Google PM battles to become the emperor and autocrat of all the googleproductmanagers

YouTube Red was rebranded to YouTube Premium a while ago.

Re: Google TV

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Post by throwaways885 »

broknbottle wrote: post #256
DesiLurker wrote: post #121

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.

promo doc submitted and targeting q4 for promo

too true

Re: Google TV

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Post by Tijdreiziger »

ehsankia wrote: post #212
samatman wrote: post #137

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Has logitech ever been been good at updates in general? Why would a peripheral company even be good at home entertainment? I'd agree that Nvidia's connection to home entertainment is just as vague, but they still sound much more reliable to me than Logitech. And as much as people love bringing up Google deprecating stuff, I still trust them far more on updating this than any outside company.

Logitech has been in the home entertainment space for a long, long time (with their Harmony remotes, which did need software to make them work). In 2015 I'd certainly have placed more trust in a Logitech device in that space than an Nvidia one.

Re: Google TV

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Post by tfitz237 »

tzs wrote: post #255

"Chromecast with Google TV requires a TV with an HDMI port" How come nearly all video dongles want you to plug them into an HDMI port on your TV? Wouldn't it make more sense to plug them in to an HDMI port on your A/V receiver? Unless you have a fairly recent TV and receiver, the TV can only send up to 5.1 DTS or Dolby compressed audio to the receiver, due to bandwidth limits of ARC. You need a system with eARC if yo…

Because of HDMI-CEC. The dongle can control things on the TV via this technology. This product specifically has a remote that I believe only interacts via HDMI-CEC.

I don't know if it's possible for the HDMI-CEC to pass through a receiver to the TV itself for this purpose.

Re: Google TV

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Post by Tijdreiziger »

iainmerrick wrote: post #175
thurn wrote: post #61

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I prefer the remote control app instead, why find a remote when it can just be on your phone, y'know?

Your phone is fine until you want to pause the movie to answer the door, but it takes tens of seconds just to reconnect to the TV dongle.

Or when you want to pause said movie because you're getting a call, which prevents you from pausing the movie. Happens to me all the time while Chromecasting.

Re: Google TV

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Post by gfxgirl »

I detest turning on my TV and getting ads from the TV itself (recommendations). I detest it even more of there is some show/celebrity I don't want to see but every day for a week/month whatever it's shoved in my face.

I'm happy Apple TV (the device not the service) starts up with no ads. Android TV / Google TV is all ads (for shows). I managed to manually turn them off but now my is super ugly. You can't set a startup image or anything since it's reserved for ads. (well, short of writing my own launcher)

I don't know what I'm going to do for my next TV. I'd love to get a dumb TV but casually glancing through options it looks hard to find a dumb TV with high end features for a reasonable price. Most of the display oriented monitors seem to be 4x-10x the price and/or use 10yr old tech.

Re: Google TV

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Post by pisky »

vel0city wrote: post #130
roneythomas6 wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

This infuriates me. Google must know about this, and can surely lower the bitrate for these old Chromecasts, yet have chosen not to. Every time I encounter this on my old Chromecasts it reminds me of how they ruined the Nexus 7 with its final major os update. Blatantly trying to get people to buy new devices. Do no evil, my arse.

Re: Google TV

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Post by aikinai »

gertrunde wrote: post #154

Goodness me, this is an exemplary example of the type of website that I just cannot abide. Style over content, and the presentation just plain getting in the way of the information, to the point that the user ends up leaving rather than finding out what the site is attempting to convey. Awful. Just awful.

It also would barely run on my 2019 MacBook Pro. I left before figuring out what Google TV is.
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