Almost a 1:1 copy of the Apple TV app just with a worse copy of website https://www.apple.com/apple-tv-app, not new but ever so disappointing Google adds so little new to ideas they decide to adopt

I just bought one. I'm a chromecast user on my main tv (that I control with my phone or nearby google home).

I bought this for the remote. There's not really anything to "improve" here. It's a dumb box that aggregates streaming apps.

The real differentiator is google assistant (and associated google home ecosystem - if you've bought into that)

I'm interested in Google Home functionality, and I like the Google assistant the most when comparing it to Siri and Alexa. It seems to better process non-generic questions and commands better than the other two.

What I'm not keen on is a cheap box that doesn't have enough RAM, so that it'll end up lagging. I don't understand why there isn't a premium model. I also don't want to dangle a weight from my HDMI port. That's probably how the HDMI ports broke on my last TV. I also would like to have volume buttons on the remotes. A mute button is nice but not enough. I'd rather trade the youtube and netflix buttons for real volume control buttons.

Same for me, I hope it won't be laggy at all and the UI is good to use. So far I like my setup with a chromecast and my phone as the remote/tv library (youtube, netflix, amazon video, disney etc.). I especially like that I can start watching something and at the same time I can browse around for something else to watch.

It looks like the remote has volume buttons on the right side by the way.

It looks like there’s some lag

https://www.theverge.com/21495609/google-chromecast-2020-rev...

That’s good news on the remote though

Yes, the flattery appears most sincere with this one:

Google's take on the TV app from Apple that runs on Apple TV, iOS, and Mac, serving as a common UI to content from apps that buy into the partner ecosystem.

Awkward how unclear that site is: this new app from Google is to be the UI pre-installed on future Android TVs, but for now, you can get as a thing running on a $49 Chromecast puck.

Apple's website scrolls much more smoothly for me as well (although that might be since I'm using Safari).

That's funny, I am using Chrome and found the Google one scrolled smoother than the Apple one.

The tv page was fine for me but the iphone and ipad pages are horrendous. I don't know why there is this trend in web design to make the page a video except you have to scroll to progress it.

Hopefully they don't copy the Apple TV app's bugginess and unreliability too. While the Apple TV+ content is great, getting there isn't.

Relevant history how they had to be forced into agreeing to pay royalties for lyrics https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/07/business/media/rap-genius... (via @CaseyNewton https://twitter.com/CaseyNewton/status/1140266508318334977)

Good Article on that: http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2015/03/learning-love-s...

"In his 2014 book Bending Adversity, Pilling grapples with the cognitive dissonance at the heart of 21st-century Japan: is it a harbinger of global stagnation? Or is it a model of global sustainability? In the book’s most-quoted passage, a British MP, on arriving in Tokyo in the early 2000s and surveying its lively environs, is reported to have said: “If this is a recession, I want one.”

There is a whole novel written about what one pixel can do and you should read it, Ellen Ullman: The Bug http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/138805.The_Bug

Was it done in-house at Sony USA or who produced it, does anyone know?

Quite funny how the use meta keywords like its 2002 … "download movies online, online movies, internet movies, video on demand, movies on demand, tv shows, watch movies online, watch online movies, support, technical, service, repair, fix, USA"