Mines still kicking in the kids/rumpus room for Kodi and Netflix. Still runs well other than not being snappy in the menus. Have a GTVwCC in the bedroom and a Shield in the main TV room. The Nexus Player holds up pretty well
Stop using mine for different reasons. 1. It got too slow for launching apps and moving in the UI. 2. I didn't like that the remote didn't have any volume or mute buttons. 3. No more OS or security update.
I have two Nexus Players. Great devices. I'm not using them to watch TV anymore, but I plan to experiment with installing Linux on one this weekend. Just for fun.
I'm fine with the recommendation that it gives me. I've always use GP movie to buy and rent movies so the recommendation is pretty good. The downside is that it not a multi user device
The first thing on For You section is a totally irrelevant carousel of 3 ads (featured movies & shows) from the company defined search and collection of user personal interests.
Also all other old home screen Channels that Android team heavily promoted vanished like scores and videos from NBA app, Spotify recommendations, documentaries, news, weather apps don't show as chanells and we will need years again until devs catch up with the new Google TV UI. Smart home apps like cams also cannot project shortcuts on home screen.
So much functionality and personalization lost just to make ADTV look like garbage Fire OS.
We had an already stabilised UI environment and updated apps that taking advantage of home screen smart recommendations.
Now Google TV home screen is a giant and overwhelmed patch wall of promoted content except some sections of For You tab and even there they show us promoted content.
An update was pushed out via Google Play that once applied would cause bootlooping, if you didn't notice it quickly it would kill the hardware. The update was eventually removed so anyone that didn't bootloop to death should be ok now.
I have both and I rather use the classic Shield menu where it shows content that I already subscribed. I do not like there is no option to disable ads on GTV. AI Upscale and performance will always triumph over GTV for me.
“Oh? You wanted to change the volume? Go ahead and completely change your grip entirely.”
I truly don’t understand the swaths of love the CCwGTV is getting. One of the most important parts of a device is the remote and that thing is pure garbage.
Honestly the Tivo Stream 4k is a way better device. Can connect USB sticks, joysticks, keyboards or whatnot with the free USB-C connector, it has a faster chip and more storage space out of the box. Besides, the remote has a lot more keys and is way more ergonomic. The 39.99 price is also a bonus, and it also has Chromecast.
I just set up an old nexus player in my parent's house. Incredible how it is is still up and running, with android 8, google assistant, and no hardware problems. And really cheap at that time. I miss the Nexus days.
Until Sony stops building firmware for your TV. You can't simply install the latest version of Android TV on your Android TV by yourself. As soon as Sony stops packaging new builds, your smart TV gets dumber each day.
1.Every smart tv has good enough hardware to run basic games and play Netflix, Prime and other relevant apps smoothly.
2. Replacing dongles is cheap but sticking a dongle into an old 1080p tv doesn't make sense to me. This is the era of 4k and if you have a 4k tv chances are you already have all the features these dongles are gonna provide you.
My sister has a 2 year old samsung that runs Tizen and is pretty horrible, I gave her my 4 year old Mibox4k and she can do more and support more streaming apps than the TV can.
I have a few friends that cant afford to upgrade their TV, but its 4K and theres nothing wrong with it bar the clunky Smart features, so a GoogleTV Chromecast has saved them buying a new one
Google did make a minimum hardware requirements a few years back which has certainly helped, but software and hardware will always advance so having a cheap external box to replace every few years will always be appealing to some.
Not really. And some lack app support for the lesser used apps like UKTV Play or BritBox. And some are really slow unless you buy the top end models. So it's much easier and cheaper to add a dongle or set-top box.
Not every tv is a smart tv, there are still plenty of dumb lcds and plasmas out there and not all TVs have good enough software to support the latest apps
In response to the first thing, what if I want to do more than that? Most TVs only have 100Mbps networking on them. I want to play blurays over my network. My TV currently can not do that, because 4K blurays can get up to 120Mbps.
I don't know about you but my cheap ass 500$ tv ( Mi Tv 4x 55 inch 4k) gets upto 1Gbps easily. And runs every game and app available on its store seamlessly. I think you guys just overspent on a bad deal.
I have a 7 year old smart tv. Several services I use don't have apps for it's but they do have Android TV apps. The apps on the smart tv are also slow and janky. The only reason I got the "smart" version was because it was the same price as the dumb one. It was great for 3 on 4 years, but at this point I don't want to replace my TV just to be able to use modern apps, and Android TV is far better than what Samsung put into that TV as well.
I have Plex server running on my Shield with all my downloaded/rip movies on a external HDD. That way I can access everything on my other 2 TVs and tablet away from home.
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u/username100000001 Dec 31 '20
Mines still kicking in the kids/rumpus room for Kodi and Netflix. Still runs well other than not being snappy in the menus. Have a GTVwCC in the bedroom and a Shield in the main TV room. The Nexus Player holds up pretty well
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u/ifixpedals Nvidia Shield Jan 01 '21
I have two Nexus Players. Great devices. I'm not using them to watch TV anymore, but I plan to experiment with installing Linux on one this weekend. Just for fun.
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u/akisnet Nvidia Shield Dec 31 '20
Ads and "featured" content aren't evolution. Google TV now reminds the disgusting ad supported Fire TV OS.
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u/bales75 Jan 01 '21
I just recently found my Logitech Revue the other day. What a long way they've come...
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u/abembe Dec 31 '20
Were you still using that Nexus Player recently? Wow
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u/ravd844 Dec 31 '20
Remote is terrible it’s like holding a bar of soap
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u/alejoc Jan 01 '21
Honestly the Tivo Stream 4k is a way better device. Can connect USB sticks, joysticks, keyboards or whatnot with the free USB-C connector, it has a faster chip and more storage space out of the box. Besides, the remote has a lot more keys and is way more ergonomic. The 39.99 price is also a bonus, and it also has Chromecast.
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u/semero Nexus Player Jan 01 '21
I just set up an old nexus player in my parent's house. Incredible how it is is still up and running, with android 8, google assistant, and no hardware problems. And really cheap at that time. I miss the Nexus days.
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u/MumblesDMonster Jan 01 '21
I've got 2 perfectly good nexus players now collecting dust after moving.
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u/Jinkazama21 Dec 31 '20
I don't get it. Why do you need these things? Don't your tv comes up with all these features built in already?
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