Google TV Streamer review | Your new HOME HUB!

Google TV is getting (almost) fully realised with the new TV Streamer....

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Timestamps
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0:00 - Intro
00:13 - Designed for the home
03:14 - Upgraded and improved remote
05:17 - Ports and power
06:34 - Google TV, storage, and performance gains
11:58 - Is the Google TV Streamer worth it now?
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[fegodev]

I'm glad it's a bit better, but $100 USD doesn't justify the embarrassing specs. The Apple TV offers double the storage, and the A15 chip for $129. The A15 chips ensures an always smooth experience because it is like 12 times faster than the MT8696, the processor in the Google TV Streamer. I think this product shouldn't cost more than $50.

[pessoaanonima]

The chromecast could be bought for as little as $30 in the HD version, which was such a good price. People said it was a bit laggy but it worked really well in my experience.
A $100 product isn't even in the same category. It would make sense if they released this as a competitor to the Nvidia Shield while still keeping the chromecast (which is more of a competitor to the Fire Stick, and in my opinion a better product than it).
They screwed it up in both ways, and I think no one is going to buy it. Google makes great products, but sometimes they just lack the vision of the market.

[ojtsmith]

Good video, well presented. I like that you don’t have the weird air hostess / supermarket customer voice synthetic cadence that so many do on YT. Just a natural authentic delivery.

[WindomRettes]

I find it hard to believe that Google can't make a reasonably priced high power media device that can match Nvidia's Shield, just doesn't make sense.

[TitanCrash]

If Google put in just a slightest bit of effort into this thing. It would have been easy to use the same chip they use to power their Pixel phones; same like Apple and their phones. Fine tune their software and WiFi 6 at least, USB port, and playback, more internal storage and RAM. This could have been a banger.

[GriffinWiebel]

Been hearing mixed reviews about the performance from a number of publications. Will be interested to get this in my hands and test myself.

[ericaacosta]

I’ve watched a few bit of videos from people and no one’s talking about how it has the Bluetooth to connect to speakers. Does that mean it can connect to your Google speakers? If so, can I create a type of surround sound when watching TV?

[Aleksandarix]

I LOVE the GTV streamer. I had the Chromecast I bought in 2017 and really needed a refresh (it was getting buggy, laggy, and disconnecting) - I am glad I waited for this unit. Even though it's more expensive, for me it's worth it. Very fast, and has all the features I want. Easy to swap apps, can turn my tv into a painting anytime I wish, and voice search is really cool! My only complaint was that some default settings needed to be changed and I couldn't find them (at first I didn't realise there were settings for these things). Eg: TV auto shuts off when displaying the screensavers. What's the point in that? I wish it still could power iteself from the TV USB I can understand how that might not have the juice anymore. And I need an HDMI cable, which lucky I had.

[LJThaKid]

Huge missed opportunity of putting a tensor chip in

[anielpro]

I would like to know how the spatial audio feature with paired Pixel Buds Pro was?

[Chris-kvfo]

Gemini is probably never coming to that device because it lacks the chipset…😂

[anthophila]

Lossless audio (TrueHD, DTS-MA HD) passthrough? Why can no one give a definitive answer?

[m_megapixels]

Got mine yesterday from John Lewis, only in the porcelain model, quite impressive really a lot faster, but still no nest audio support 😢

[quahogconvo]

Thanks for the review! Tempted to upgrade for my mom, but I may just wait for a sale.

[robhingston]

MediaTek MT8696 chip, the same SoC that the 2021 Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K Max runs on
3 year old processor?

[iankphone]

Got mine. Launcher is spam infested. Audio over hdmi is ALWAYS 5.1 with empty/silent channels when listening to 2.0 content, so surround processing never kicks in for 2.0 content.

Back to the shield, I guess.

[ssa]

Does it work with Channel 4? (my biggest issue with Google Chromecast) I'm in the UK and aware there is no Channel 4 app for Google Chromecast but now it's stopped casting too! 😢

[Belgarath]

For the price, this is such a disappointment. If I ever replace my 4k firestick max, I might go the route of the AppleTV. At least with that overpriced device I feel like you get more of what you need.

[Zerotrone]

How is the casting experience? The current Chromecast 4k cast photos and videos at a very low resolution. 720p to be exact. It also casts your photos and videos without their meta data, like HDR. If you own a Samsung TV and a Samsung phone, try and use the Smart View option to cast your photos and videos and you'll see a huge difference.

[Peterstarzynskitech]

The heat disapation is a big thing for me. I get a lot of hangups and freezes because of the heat of the Google Chromecast.