I have access to a Nexus Player at my job and given my positive experience with the device, decided to pick one up on eBay this week.

During my limited use, I've since noticed new behavior on BOTH units (home + office) that seems to correlate with the recent Google Home and Chromecast outage. The behavior is quite different though: at wake of device and at exit of app (perhaps the shared action is "at display of home screen"), the connected display screen blinks / flashes repeatedly for 10 - 30 seconds (see GIF below). The screen flashing does eventually stop, but then starts over after exiting an app.

https://media.giphy.com/media/Dr2c8F6cL9yZNTtvfb/giphy.gif

Anyone else experiencing this? I'm seeing this exact behavior across multiple units, connected to different TV screens, using varying methods of connectivity (home = HDMI to Receiver to TV; work = HDMI to TV).

Edit : One other interesting observation, but may not be related, is that I cannot complete the setup process for Google Assistant (GA). Upon selection of the GA button on the screen, or pressing the mic on the remote, the app prompts me to authenticate with a Google account, even though I've already completed this process at the device-level. If I opt to complete the setup process anonymously, the process seems to complete (the GA app is dismissed), but at attempt to relaunch the app, the device does not respond. There's no indication that the app is launched, and in fact, the device blocks all other user input for ~5 seconds.

Final Edit (7/21): The issue seemed to resolve itself on its own. The unit in the office stopped blinking/flashing on during active use of the product, and the one at home seemed to stop after a factory reset (note: I had previously executed several resets without success in stopping the negative behavior). Not sure what caused it, not sure what fixed it.. perhaps a Play Services update.