It’s a sharp, textured and well exposed picture that’s a credit to the HDR source material. There’s almost nothing to separate the two as we watch Lost In Space in Dolby Vision. Pictureįor picture quality, the Chromecast with Google TV is right up there with the best video streamers at its price, including its nearest rival, the five-star Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K. In fact, for usability and recommendations, Chromecast with Google TV is the best media streamer on the market. As well as requesting specific TV shows, music and movies, you can make more general requests such as ‘Show me films about time travel’ or similar. As expected, the voice recognition is nearly flawless and a decent way of getting to what you want and quickly. You can teach it to control the power and volume on your TV and use it as the microphone for the Google Assistant voice searches on Google TV. The new remote control is tactile and well thought out. You can refine the AI by telling it what you’ve already seen but, even from the off, it has a pretty decent handle on our tastes. When you track down a film or TV show that you have rights to watch on multiple services, Google TV gives you the choice of service and will even default to the cheapest or free option where possible, rather than trying to sell you the version from Google’s own catalogue.Īvailable films and TV programmes are organised into helpful rows of suggestions, including quite a few categories we’ve never seen on other services, such as Neo-noir, Futuristic Shows, Films about Robots and Space exploration movies. As a user, it’s a refreshing change to see a genuinely useful content discovery tool rather than a shopfront to sell you content. These depend on your location and subscriptions but include Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Disney+, iPlayer, YouTube and more. It’s compatible with over 6500 of the apps built for Android TV and will recommend content on the home page from over 30 streaming services. Google TV makes its debut on Chromecast here, and despite that resulting in a mouthful of a name for the device, we understand why Google wishes to shout about its new interface.
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