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Re: Google TV

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Post by DavidAdams »

r-w wrote: post #66
umvi wrote: post #40

Ok, maybe I'm the only one, but I'm actually excited about this. It appears to be an aggregation service. Instead of individually searching across N platforms for content (hulu, disney+, youtube, crunchyroll, netflix, etc), you can now just use a single app (Google TV) which will allows you to search and stream across all platforms you are subscribed to. Furthermore you can cast stuff directly to chromecast from Goog…

This has already been possible for years upon years on Roku.

Except that Roku is playing games and you can't get an HBO Max app now.

Re: Google TV

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Post by pisky »

harshitaneja wrote: post #290
pisky wrote: post #269

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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.

Chromecast Gen 1 never supported 1080p@60 and was advertised upto 1080p@30 or 720p@60. So I don't know how is it okay to expect a device that continues to function after 7 years(I have 2 still functioning) to support something it was never intended to in the first place.

Can't YouTube serve up the videos in formats that the original Chromecasts can consume? Surely either YouTube can know which Chromecast is making the request, and serve up an appropriate quality, or allow the Chromecast to request a lower quality version of the video. To be clear, I don't expect to be able to see videos in higher quality than was available at the time of purchase. I expect to be able to 'watch YouTube' as was advertised on the device's box.

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Post by Shared404 »

outworlder wrote: post #136
mike_d wrote: post #115

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Time travel with me back to 1993 for a moment... DOS is your Operating System. You can use Windows 3.11, GeoWorks, or DeskMate as your Application Launcher.

You don't even have to travel that far. Even on Windows10 you can install different shells(Cairo, bb4win, classic shell, etc).

Just so you know, classic shell is deprecated.

Open shell [0] is the up to date one.

[0] https://open-shell.github.io/Open-Shell-Menu/

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Post by quicklime »

nneonneo wrote: post #271
ehsankia wrote: post #210

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Highly relevant comic (although it's quite outdated now) https://bonkersworld.net/naming-dartboard

Heh, that’s cute. And it still seems reasonably close to reality - the only thing I think it’s missing OTOH is Google One. Apple has Books, Pay, Wallet, Store, App Store, One, and TV. All they’re missing is Cast and Go!

Also the Pixelbook Go - whoever named that must’ve been throwing two darts at the same time!

Re: Google TV

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Post by Dig1t »

Is anyone else struck by how similar this looks to Apple TV? It looks like a straight up clone, down to the remote and interface. Only difference is that it looks like it dangles from your TV and has Assistant instead of Siri.

Re: Google TV

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Post by JeremyNT »

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…

It took me quite a while to understand that this device is actually something I wanted. Their marketing is terrible and I had to read an article on another site to actually decipher the code words.

It's not a Chromecast, as we used to understand them - it's a full Android TV device with a new skin/launcher called Google TV.

It is, essentially, an updated Nexus Player, a competitor to the Nvidia shield and cheaper no-name android stick devices. One can hope it will be easily rooted, thus allowing for some interesting potential uses.

Re: Google TV

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Post by giancarlostoro »

Dig1t wrote: post #298

Is anyone else struck by how similar this looks to Apple TV? It looks like a straight up clone, down to the remote and interface. Only difference is that it looks like it dangles from your TV and has Assistant instead of Siri.

Honestly at this point I am jumping ship altogether although I think I will get the next Xbox console as my TV app device manager especially with the Game Pass. I hate the concept of streaming games but the idea of having most Microsoft games on a game pass is worthwhile they got some solid flagship games that are easily replayable.
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