Finally Giving up on my Chromecast with GoogleTV 😢

by aggiepm

I love my chromecast with GoogleTV, I like the interface, the suggestions, but the apps have problems, and they don't get fixed!

  1. Prime video if you watch anything in UHD, it leaves the chromecast stuck on UHD and you have to reboot it to get back to normal. It has done this for a LONG time, it's clearly never getting fixed.
  2. Paramount+ when you watch DolbyVision shows, 50% of the time it gets jacked up when trying to switch to DolbyVision, stopping the episode and starting again will sometimes fix it, but sometimes you have to reboot. BTW this was also true with CBS all access, so it's done this for a LONG time
  3. AppleTV+ (ya I know) this app somehow causes my TV to reboot, it used to crash on DolbyVision content, so its better now?

As much as I hate to admit defeat, I just bought an AppleTV 4K, it's apps actually work. I realize this is not google's fault, they don't write the 3rd party apps, but if the third party companies can't make apps that work, then it's not useful to me.

pawdog

Thats some weird stuff right there. Never heard of any of it on the device or any other.

leo-g

It’s totally Google’s fault. Their API for Android TV is terrible. Fire TV which uses Android as a backend has absolutely no problem.

epictetusdouglas

Paramount+ is pretty bad on every platform.