It took Google a few years, a couple of pivots, and multiple name changes, but the company has finally built an excellent operating system for watching TV. The Google TV interface — running on top of the Android TV OS (Google’s branding chaos remains undefeated) — has already been doing a really nice job of making it easy to find what you’re looking for and constantly recommending new stuff to watch. But the Chromecast streaming dongle it ran on hasn’t been able to keep up.
Now, Google TV is getting the hardware to match.
The Google TV Streamer 4K, which goes on sale tomorrow for $99.99, is an upgrade in every way over the Chromecast with Google TV. There’s a new processor, a built-in ethernet port, plus double the RAM and four times the storage of the Chromecast. It supports Matter for your smart home, and a Thread radio makes it a Thread border router, which Jen will tell you more about in a bit.
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