So the Google TV dongle is $49.99 in the US but why on earth is it £59.99 in the UK??!! Edit: Clarify it's the dongle
To clarify that is at current exchange range:
£59.99 = $77.45
$49.99 = £38.72
It's actually twice the price!
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#32I 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 working because of changes to the underlying services.
Will this be different? I doubt it. I'm not putting more money into Google hardware to find out that they'll break it and then lose interest.
Meanwhile my second gen Apple TV is working great.
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#34Oh Google. So this is a reskin and rebrand of Android TV, launching for the first time on the new "Chromecast with Google TV". Not to be confused with a different Google TV from 10 years ago. It's unclear if they are sunsetting Android TV or supporting 2 branches of Android based TV interfaces. Side note, I have a TV with Android TV and it is chock-full-o-bugs. Only in the Google-verse.
Ars Article:
Google merges Chromecast and Android TV with the “Chromecast with Google TV”
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/09/google-merges-chrome...
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#35It took me a while to realize this was a new device and not an app.
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#36This 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.
You can always plug a box into the TV, even if it’s a smart TV.
The software can still update. Does the hardware needed to play a video really become obsolete in 1 year? Why, do hardware decoders improve that fast? People aren’t using these panels for games
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#37thank you google but no :) I don't trust you even more of my data
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#38> "TV personalized for you."
Um, well... coming from Google this is more of a turn-off, not a selling point.
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#39Did Google manage to convince Netflix to allow them to monitor what you watch on Netflix? This is one of the biggest holes in Apple TV (the app, on Apple TV, the box) - it knows most of what you watch and can make recommendations for Hulu, HBO, Prime, etc. and manage your queue except for Netflix.
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#40Ok, 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 Google TV as well as watch locally on your device.