2020-10-05, 03:29
Amazon's FireTv interface already has the ability to search across multiple streaming providers, and it shows you all the ways to watch if multiple services carry a title.
It also has recommendations aka ads. And voice search. All in a device that was frequently on sale for $25-35 and seems to do everything better. FireStick also has a much better remote.
No idea why Google Tv is causing such a fuss when they basically copied everything from Amazon. Its worse at most things except using Assistant for voice search and I'm sure their smart recommendations and integration with rest of Google will be better.
For people with mostly local media, I wanted the ability to have a cheaper device for full format playback (vs the overpriced Shield) AND have official 3rd party apps, casting etc (which other such devices that are best for Kodi lack). But it seems no luck.
AFAIK the Amlogic chipset is perfectly capable of both correct refresh rate switching as well as lossless audio bistreaming, and both of these are software limitations in Android or deliberately disabled - correct?
It also has recommendations aka ads. And voice search. All in a device that was frequently on sale for $25-35 and seems to do everything better. FireStick also has a much better remote.
No idea why Google Tv is causing such a fuss when they basically copied everything from Amazon. Its worse at most things except using Assistant for voice search and I'm sure their smart recommendations and integration with rest of Google will be better.
For people with mostly local media, I wanted the ability to have a cheaper device for full format playback (vs the overpriced Shield) AND have official 3rd party apps, casting etc (which other such devices that are best for Kodi lack). But it seems no luck.
AFAIK the Amlogic chipset is perfectly capable of both correct refresh rate switching as well as lossless audio bistreaming, and both of these are software limitations in Android or deliberately disabled - correct?
