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9to5Google flagged some new data putting Google TV and Android TV together in third place among streaming platforms in the States. I can't get the full piece to load and I haven't seen the underlying methodology, so treat the ranking as a headline rather than a fact for now. But the claim itself...

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...

July 24 marked thirteen years since the original Chromecast landed, which sent me rummaging for mine. Thirty five dollars, a stick about the size of a USB drive, micro-USB for power, 1080p ceiling, and no remote at all - your phone was the remote. That last part was the actual idea, and it is...

Google put out its Best of 2025 list for Google TV. Most watched among films new to streaming that year were Superman, Sinners and The Pickup, which Google describes as a heist comedy. On the show side it was Reacher, The Last of Us and Love Island USA. The collection lives under the For You...

Google TV Freeplay keeps growing and I still can't work out who it's for. The additions Google called out most recently are an SNL Vault channel, a Real Housewives Vault channel and American Ninja Warrior, all running live and free around the clock. The vault format is the odd part. You have an...

The other half of Google's CES pitch for Google TV is generative work running on the television itself. Gemini searching your Google Photos library for a specific person or moment, Photos Remix applying artistic styles to your pictures, memories turned into what Google calls cinematic immersive...

Google is bolting sports briefs onto Gemini on Google TV. The pitch is narrated catch-up on whatever league you follow, starting with the NBA, NCAA basketball, NHL, MLB, MLS and NWSL, sitting in the Gemini tab on the home screen. It builds on the news briefs they added last year, and it landed...

Google has been listing smart projectors from Vankyo, Epson and XGIMI alongside its TVs as Google TV devices, and that is the corner of the projector market I have been waiting to shake out. For years the app situation was the whole problem: some Android build nobody supported, a store full of...

Have tried a few smart home dashboards and the one that stuck is the least ambitious: the home panel on Google TV. It sits on the TV, shows the compatible lights, thermostats and cameras, and that is roughly it. The reason it wins is location. A dashboard on a phone means finding the phone...

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...

Went digging after seeing a piece on where the default Google TV ambient photos come from, and the answer is funnier than I expected: most of them are shot by Google employees. The team leaned on a stock image marketplace early on, then from 2020 started asking Googlers to submit their own work...

Setting up a new TV is the worst half hour of owning one, so I paid this more attention than it probably deserves. Google reworked the Google TV out of box flow and handed it to Hisense first, on the 2025 U7 and U8 series, before pushing it to other Google TV devices and some of Walmart's onn...

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 pushed three more Gemini things onto Google TV and I have been going back and forth on whether any of it belongs on a television. The rollout is US and Canada first, with wider device support plus Australia, New Zealand and Great Britain listed for this spring, so plenty of you will be...

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...

The 2026 Panasonic overview is up and the thing that jumped out at me was not a panel spec, it was the operating system situation. Depending on which model you buy this year you get Google TV, Fire TV, TiVo OS, or in some markets Roku. Panasonic shut down development of its own platform, the one...

Google’s Gemini AI assistant is officially making its way to televisions. On Monday, the company announced that Google TV will soon integrate Gemini, allowing users to interact with artificial intelligence through natural, conversational dialogue on their TVs. Once the rollout is complete...

Xiaomi has officially introduced its first-ever streaming stick powered by Google TV — the Xiaomi TV Stick 2nd Gen — marking a significant step forward in the brand’s smart TV ecosystem. Compact Design, Big Features Designed to be ultra-portable and easy to use, the Xiaomi TV Stick 2nd Gen...

Intro In the dynamic realm of home entertainment, projectors with built-in Google TV have become a transformative force in 2025. These devices seamlessly merge streaming services, voice control, and personalized recommendations, eliminating the need for external hardware. Whether you're crafting...

According to reports, Google is gearing up to release a new generation of Chromecast TV stick supporting Google TV 4K, nearly four years after its last update. An anonymous source revealed that the new Chromecast TV stick supporting Google TV 4K will come with a redesigned remote control...