#Chromecast with Google TV

[songsofwaterandnight]

With discount season upon us, remember to avoid Google products, guys. Not because of data collection and privacy or anything like that. It's just that they're really really shitty.

Google's phone series and streaming devices suck but you'll see a lot of fanfare around them because tech bros love to circle jerk about how cool it is that Google makes hardware. In this manner Google is essentially the Tesla(MUSK not Nikola) of personal tech. I've used a Chromecast with Google TV(this is the name of the product and yeah I have to specify like that because the Chromecast by itself is a whole other device with different capabilities) and a Pixel and both felt like I was beta testing them because of all the bugs and barely useful features. When I would look online for fixes and tips I found that a lot of the issues and questions I had were widespread and Google either didn't care or would release updates that would break something else. That last bit applies to the phone more than the Chromecast. The Chromecast was useable but all the advertised features sucked real bad. (I've made a post about this before and I'll probably reblog it or make a new one with extra tech shopping tips soon) It blocks certain websites when you try to cast them and so on. You are way better off just buying a very long HDMI cord if your reason for getting it is to stream from your PC. The HDMI cable won't police your content and the lower latency (lag) is really nice.

The Pixel was a hot (quite literally) mess with lots of bugs that made it so unusable I traded it in shortly after I got it. Camera was great though. I will give it that. When it wasn't overheating or not messing with my calls, it would take some great pictures even in low light. It really can claim that whole best camera on android title. Shame about everything else around the camera though.

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[yutamayo]

was playing around with my new Chromecast settings and managed to put the screensaver slide to my album of animecaps. 2000+ pics that will help randomly inspire new unhinged vibes and text post memes

[supergameboytwo]

I am going to personally attack whoever decided to start removing am / pm from clocks on every single fucking mobile device in the universe

[appleonjust-ice]

my brother is playing red ball 4 on the fucking television

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Google anunció el nuevo Google TV Streamer 4K, que llega como sucesor oficial del Chromecast, al que sustituirá. El Chromecast ha llegado a su fin, pero el Google TV Streamer 4K continuará con este legado con un rendimiento mejorado y una funcionalidad de inteligencia artificial integrada. El producto más reciente del gigante de los motores de búsqueda llega con un diseño pequeño similar a un…

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[sladewatkins]

Looks like the "Google TV Streamer" (or whatever it'll end up being called) hit the FCC recently. I'm looking forward to that Ethernet port, but would like more storage and slightly improved specs to. I don't know why, but the Chromecast with Google TV always felt slow to me compared to my Apple TV. This would be a great competitor!

[laurentgiret]

The “Google TV streamer” is a white pill-shaped media player that may soon replace Google's Chromecast with Google TV HDMI dongles.

[merlyn-bane]

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[staciegirl78]

I turned 45 in early December. My bedroom TV was needing replaced. I previous had an Insignia fire edition TV from Best buy. I had it a long time and some of the apps were starting to not be compatible because the TV was so old. It also didn't have enough external storage and it had stopped receiving updates. I was shopping for tvs around black Friday. I had been looking for a long time. At first I purchased an Element Xumo TV on a Cyber Monday sale. That tv had a lot of issues and it was out of stock when I needed to return it. I had chosen that tv because it was 50" and my previous TV was 43". I didn't have room for much bigger than that. So when I returned it.... Most of the tvs that had been on sale for black Friday and cyber Monday were sold out or the price had gone up. I noticed the TCL Google tvs had the price stay down. My first smart TV was when TCL first came out with Roku tvs many years ago and I felt like that TV didn't last that long. That was the main reason I hadn't bought a TCL TV after that. I had used a plug on for my old TV that had Google Chromecast on it and I liked it. That was the only way I could use my old tv. So Sam's Club, Best Buy, and Target all had the tv I bought for the same price. My mom has a Sam's Club membership so I ordered a TV on her account with my debit card. The main reason I chose them....it had the longest return policy of the 3 and we go to Sam's Club at least once a month in a nearby city and I could return it there if need be. Here is the TV I bought (43"):

My only big issue was the sound wasn't that great despite all the reviews saying that people were using it without a sound bar and it still sounded great. My old TV didn't need a sound bar and I didn't have a sound bar. I was trying to keep the cost down. I noticed Amazon was having a sale on sound bars so I thought I would read the reviews and get the cheapest one I could that didn't have horrible reviews. There were 2 choices and they were the same brand. One was 30ish dollars and the other one was 40ish dollars. I went with the cheaper one. People seemed to like it better anyhow. At first I didn't know how to hook it up and get it to work. I looked at the instructions and I still didn't know. I found sound help about it online. It's great despite the lower cost. You should check out this brand (Saiyin) if you need a lower cost sound bar. Here is the one I bought:

Next I needed a new coaxial cable because mine was in horrible shape. We use an outside antenna. It's mostly just for watching local broadcasts from Springfield, Missouri in case of a tornado. I just replaced the coaxial cable. I bought this one from amazon. It's way more solid than my old one. For a little more I could have gotten the same brand with L shaped ends. I didn't notice that before. You can buy this cable in all different lengths and they have a weatherproof version also. Here is the one I bought. You can see the brand if you need a solid coaxial cable at a good price:

Next my Ethernet cable was old and the ends started to look bad. It was getting loose and falling out. I bought a new cable. This one was also really solid and a good price on amazon. It comes in many colors and every color is in all different lengths. I was going to get yellow or some color that shows up well but I went with purple instead. I noticed this brand has a variety of cables on Amazon. Here is the one I got and it's a cat 8 which was an upgrade for me:

Last but not least.... I always lose my remotes. They fall between my bed and the wall or wherever. I bought a second remote so I would have a backup and I bought glow in the dark protective cover for them. I found the glow in the dark cover on Amazon. Sikai was the better of the 2 that I bought but shipping was slow. They also had other colors available. Here it is:

My only other thing I wanted was to get a TV that was future proof with the tuner. Unfortunately there aren't many tvs available with the newer ATSC 3.0 Nextgen tv tuners built in.... Especially at the smaller size. This tv didn't have the newer tuner and I knew that when I bought it. It was also a little under $200 and tvs with the new tuner are much higher. It might not be necessary to have the newer tuner for antenna tv. I might have this TV for before I need it anyhow. They do sell external atsc 3.0/nextgen tv tuners but the cost is the same as the tv or higher in the few models out there. They do however have a DVR storage kind of similar to the Tablo device that my mom uses. I'm going to wait until newer comes come out and maybe the price goes down. That of I buy it at all.

At my house we are getting our TV service right now with YouTube tv. My brother lives here and he is a subscriber. We all have profiles on there. It has a lot of the channels and most of the broadcast stuff I would watch and some cable channels. It also includes an unlimited amount that you can record or have in your library. The only issue is it runs a minute or so behind so it's not helpful if there is local tornado coverage. That's why I still use an antenna.

So YouTube TV doesn't have a few channels I watch so I subscribe to the FRNDLY TV app. At first Youtube TV didn't have the Hallmark channel and I watch When Calls the Heart. Now YouTube tv has the Hallmark channels. FRNDLY still has a variety of channels that we don't get on my brother's YouTube tv package... I watch GAC Family, The History Channel, A&E, Lifetime Movies and others on FRNDLY. I do a yearly subscription and it's very inexpensive for a streaming app with live channels and the ability to record the shows. I had to cancel all the other streaming channels I had because I don't have a job right now. My brother subscribes to all the major streaming apps and they are signed into the living room TV. I have some of the logged in on my TV and tablet and such but some of the services have restrictions on how many devices can be logged in or about password sharing. My brother and I live in the same house so it should be different than sharing between like a parent and a child or with a spouse or something.

Note: We need to replace the outside antenna. We've had this one 9 or 10 years and it gets a lot of wind and such at it. We saw one we might get in Amazon and we want to replace the pole that it's ok. We run a really long coaxial cable from it that goes to the basement where there is a coaxial splitter (it also maybe needs replaced).… So we staying run a coaxial cable from it to the kitchen for the kitchen tv and the living room for the living room TV and one to 2 of the 3 bedrooms. The coaxial that goes to my brother's bedroom broke but he doesn't watch antenna tv anymore. He only plays video games on his tv. He watches all the streaming channels but he mostly does that on his iPad. So there isn't a good way to run a coaxial cable to my bedroom so far. I put a 2 way splitter at the living room TV and I run my coaxial cable to it. I know splitting weakens the signal but generally it has worked out for us. Now it's not so great even after adjusting the outside antenna. Al the other social cables may need replaced along with the antenna. We are going to wait a month or so before maybe doing that because of the cost and it will be nicer weather to put an antenna up hopefully. We can get everything we need from Amazon for 1 day delivery anyhow.

Something you can try. When my old TV couldn't update some of the app and it ran out of internal storage.... I found a cheap fix at Walmart. I decided to just go with a cheap streaming box and I found that they came out with a store brand ONN streaming box that had Google Chromecast on it. I had been wanting to try chromecast before I committed to buy a tv with it. All our smart TVs before had Roku or the old one I had in my bedroom before had Amazon Fire tv built in. This streaming box came out last spring or summer and it sells at Walmart in many stores and for shipping on their app for $19.99. It still works great. We have put it on the living room TV which is the next to get replaced because it's a Hisense Roku 2017 model. My mom doesn't like anything other than the Roku set up. She is almost 75 and she wants to stick with what she knows. Unfortunately there aren't as many brands that have Roku built in any more and they hardly come out. So far none of them have the newer tuner that we have seen. Hisense mostly makes tvs with Google Chromecast built in now from what we have seen.

[songsofwaterandnight]

Black Friday coming around again and another year with this device. Still bad and all of this is still true(except for maybe the chainsaw man bit).

I think the reason I wrote all this out back then is because I expected so much more from this device coming from one of the biggest data aggregation companies in the world then it was just mediocre at best when I actually tried it.

Anyway it's definitely not worth the MSRP ($50) and it's not really worth the sale price either (around $40) when there are better and cheaper alternatives(which again include a very long HDMI cable if you're getting it for the casting ability).

I think that if you're getting a Chromecast with Google TV for Black Friday you should at least know that it's really just a massive advertising device that's not all it's hyped up to be. It disappoints in all the major advertised areas and the things it does well are gimmicks that you'll forget about after a month:

The aggregated home screen(which is its main pull factor that it focuses on in all its ads) doesn't work well at all. It's not as personalized as they made it out to be as it's mostly just ads for shows that they cycle out as they come. I don't watch horror movies at all but I get horror recommendations for some reason. The suggestions are terrible for the most part but you can find stuff if you know what you're looking for. Even then it still iffy because Google didn't have Chainsaw Man in its database (last time I checked) despite it being one of the most popular anime of this year.

Chromecast just doesn't work for certain websites. Chromecast users believe that Google is deliberately blocking free streaming sites. That's believable because Google has skin in the streaming game(they sell episodes and movies and they may be getting revenue from all the random recommendations they push). If you're buying this device to stream free streaming sites to it then you're better off just buying a very long HDMI cable (if you're on PC. Sorry mobile users you're just gonna have a bad time) .

The voice assistant is not as good as the one on Android phones. Despite the supposed interconnectedness of android devices that you can use with this device, there are certain things it just won't do for you. It can show you your tasks for the day but it won't let you set a new reminder(bear in mind that this device can play games and browse the web [allegedly] but setting a reminder is where it draws the line.) There are a few other little instances like this where it makes me wonder why they chose to limit it so much.

It's a cool smart tv streamer that you can get cool games and apps on with... 4Gbs of storage... As about half of that comes already used, after you add an average amount of streaming services, the space starts to fill up real quickly. You can add removable storage but the process is a little convoluted and you have to buy more things. I will admit that games run decently on it. It can emulate certain consoles really well if you want to go through the hassle of setting that up instead of just using your phone or computer.

I don't really like the remote but maybe that's subjective? It's slippery and I accidentally press it way more than my old one but that could be coincidental.

The most stand-out part about it is that it has Bluetooth so you can connect your earbuds to it to listen to stuff directly. However the Roku I had before that had private listening in its app that would let me use whatever audio device I had connected to my phone which meant I could use wired and wireless. Google could've done the same thing to provide that feature for people who use wired earbuds but from my experience using their product, I don't think they care about their users that much.

[nestofrmnics]

Good morning, majority rule day in The Bahamas and I'm about to put on some relaxing music on Youtube and get back into bed.

[tapewormoffthestring]

buying the hunger games movies on google play movies and tv in 2018 was such a mistake

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