Went back through Google's design writeup on the TV Streamer, the one where Ivy Ross and Isabelle Olsson walk through the decisions, and one line explains the whole shape of the thing. Olsson says they were bringing it out from behind the television set, so it needed to be something people are...
The Streamer has been under the TV since launch and the two features I use daily are the boring ones. Not the Gemini summaries, not the curated rows, but the programmable button on the remote and Find My Remote.
That extra button can be pointed at the home panel, a specific app, or another...
Google swapped Assistant for Gemini on the Streamer and called it an upgrade, which in my experience is the word companies use when something is being removed as well as added. The pitch is natural voice: ask for a film that two people with different taste will both sit through, ask what...
Google TV is rolling out a batch of new features and the coverage has all been about the AI toys. You can talk to your TV and have Nano Banana rewrite a family photo, or have Veo generate a short video from a prompt, both accessed through the Gemini tab under Create. Google's own example is...