cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/38938821
I’m probably a minority in this (although probably not so much here on Lemmy), but if anything, I’d want my TV to be less smart, and less personalised. I don’t want Google to know what my favourite TV shows and movies are. I don’t want “suggestions” on which streaming platforms I could also install (often before the content I would actually want to see). And I most definitely don’t want my TV to be monitoring the rest of my “smart” home.
For the people who are part of this articles titular “we”, I seriously wonder: why would you have been waiting for this?
I think you’re definitely in the majority on lemmy with this take but i agree.
I have a “smart tv” that has never even seen WiFi because i prefer having control over my hardware. My media pc is all i need. I even got a little remote for an air mouse and keyboard combo that works just fine for me.
The real difference:
I got an ad like the a month ago, made me start looking at alternatives. I haven’t found one besides Apple TV that supports all the streaming services, is made for a TV, and doesn’t have worse ads. I could handle content ads for streaming services I didn’t have, but just straight TV commercials on my hopepage? Get fucked Google.
We have an Android TV stick that show posters of films available for purchase below applications and that’s the only ad. The stick also somehow blocks Google banner ads on all apps. The catch’s bad responsiveness and unstable comnectivity. And no OS updates for over a year. https://www.mi.com/global/product/mi-tv-stick/specs
At least until they kill the product in 18 months
Well they’re discontinuing the OG Chromecast and Chromecast w/ Google TV for this. So you’re probably right.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/6/24214471/google-chromecast-line-discontinued
Never invest too heavily in Google anything.
Although, isn’t this just a rebranding and evolution of the Chromecast? Seems like the same experience and platform, but with Ethernet, thread / matter, more storage, faster compute, etc.
Yeah but $30 USD vs $100 USD targets completely different customers and use cases.
I was willing to spend $30 per TV. But not $100.
Sure, the twelfth time‘s the charm.
If you bought an Apple TV in 2015 you will still get at least this years tvOS update, if not more. How many devices has google announced and buried since then?
They want me to buy a streaming stick from an advertising company and tell me it is going to be the experience that I’ve been looking for? Yeah… no.
This will either be canceled or enshittified immediately.
