I have researched the Android TV options in order to get one, multiple google tv has appeared on my search but I cannot distinguish the difference or if this would replace android in the near future, does anybody know what would be a better option ?
I have researched the Android TV options in order to get one, multiple google tv has appeared on my search but I cannot distinguish the difference or if this would replace android in the near future, does anybody know what would be a better option ?
The conflicting feedback here on what is Google tv is a testament to Google's mastery of shitty marketing and killing their own products
The original Google tv (the Sony box) was head and shoulders above any other set top box I've ever used (currently using Shields).
It also had the greatest remote in the history of TV. It was a very dark day when that was discontinued.
I would pay a lot of money to anyone that figured out how to get that remote to work with a current set top box
*Android TV is going to be discontinued?
No, it's not.
And the choice is yours.
Google TV is basically a skin over Android TV that Google uses on the Chromecast with Google TV. It's only as old as that device, and probably will continue to be used on Google branded streaming devices.
The topic in your post suggests that you've found evidence that google tv might be discontinued? I doubt that very much.
Google tv is about ultra personalized ads ("recommendations:). Tied in to your google account and all of the streaming apps that you have installed. It's big data and big analytics all the way down to your individual google account, and everything else you do on that account.
The newest versions of the android tv home screen are also chock full of ads ("recommendations"), but not with quite the intensity of the google tv app.
The android tv home screen app can be used pretty fully even without a google account. For google tv, no account means apps only mode, where you can't even sort the app order.
I'd rather go down in a plane crash than use google tv, but lots of people love it to death.
Google TV means different things. When I google it, I get a side bar on google search that says it has been discontinued. If I go to wikipedia it says it has been discontinued. If I click on the wikipedia disambiguation links it says it is a replacement for google play movies and TV. Such a mess.
It's the oposite, the Android TV launcher will be phased out in favor of the Google TV launcher, it was projected to happen in 2 years since its launch back in 2020 but the former is still around.