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overload ,

Urgh… We own three of these devices and this news really sucks because a set-top box isn’t convenient for two of those TVs.

Caligvla ,
@Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Really, rebranding from Chromecast to Google TV Streamer? Who the fuck was the genius that greenlighted this?

csm10495 ,
@csm10495@sh.itjust.works avatar

Yep. Someone thinks the Google name has some crazy value.

jdeath ,

they make 6.1 million dollars per day for their executive savvy

BleatingZombie ,

I knew someone who worked at a really well loved local restaurant. One day a new manager came in and IMMEDIATELY wanted to change the name. According to him, you should change a restaurant’s name every 2 years

Why would you ruin the recognition you already have? He was also planning on changing the name to be the exact same as a business down the street. I think he was an idiot

piccolo ,

“Give this man a raise and promotion” – some MBA somewhere

Showroom7561 ,

Probably the same guy that greenlights unwanted UI changes in all their products.

aesthelete ,

f

MerchantsOfMisery ,

Family practically thought I was David Blaine when I got a first gen Chromecast back in the day.

Evotech ,

It was magic. Still is tbh.

intensely_human ,

Cheez-Its. Cheez-Its

jeena ,
@jeena@piefed.jeena.net avatar

The Chromecast was one of the few things I really liked made by Google. I always have one in my travel bag and it's basically like bringing your own home theater to the hotel with you. I had a time where I lived in hotels and AirBnB's for almost a year and this thing was god send.

They have some other device which they want to sell which will replace it, but that one is big and clunky, not meant for traveling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSSI_Ht6Mis

WanderingVentra ,

Dammit. I like it for the same reason. Why does Google keep doing this?

jdeath ,

well, it’s just in their DNA. institutional inertia is a helluva drug!

intensely_human ,

Because they worship incompetence.

AbsoluteChicagoDog ,

$

BuddyTheBeefalo , (edited )

I take my raspberry pi 400 and a mouse with me ($70). I don’t like to travel with expensive things. Once connected to a hotel tv, i have a full pc. I watch movies in 720p to have more fps. In case I have something important to do but no TV, I vnc to my phone.

poopkins ,

Connecting a classic (non-Google TV) Chromecast to a new WiFi (or heaven forbid a hotel WiFi with a capture portal) was always such a pain. And casting over networks without mDNS is flaky at best and otherwise downright impossible.

By contrast, I’ve loved taking along my Chromecast with Google TV to hotels, along with:

  • A VPN client installed it already,
  • An Android phone that can create a WiFi AP while connected to the hotel WiFi,
  • A Bluetooth speaker and my Bluetooth headphones paired to it so I get great audio as well.

This has been a complete gamechanger and a genuine upgrade over yesteryear’s Chromecasts.

FalseMyrmidon ,

Makes sense. Smart TVs weren't common at that point, now you can't avoid them.

olympicyes ,

I don’t allow my TVs to touch the internet. I hadn’t realized how much they phone home until disabling upnp on my router locked the tv up and I couldn’t navigate the Home Screen without a terrible delay. The telemetry collection is out of control and they fingerprint everything you watch from a connected device. No thanks.

frezik ,

Still works better for traveling. Hotel smart TVs are even worse than the home models, but if you have an open HDMI port on it and can work out the wifi, you’re in business.

redhorsejacket ,

Hmm, so, last month I began to have issues with my Chromecast for the first time. I have an old 3rd gen Chromecast attached to my bedroom television (not a smart tv) for the purpose of casting obnoxiously long video essays to fall asleep to. After like a decade of essentially hassle free operation, it suddenly stopped being able to maintain a connection to my phone. I cast a video, and after approximately 10 minutes, the cast disconnects and I get a message on my phone saying “this video cannot be played in the background”. I’ve tried ever troubleshooting technique I can think of.

I know I shouldn’t attribute to malice what can be explained by other causes, but boy, seeing this news today sure makes me think about things like planned obsolescence.

BeMoreCareful ,

I have had the exact issue. I see a device disconnected message on my TV and typically give up.

BarbecueCowboy ,

Planned obsolescence is built into googles processes.

They’ve created an environment where your primary method of advancing in your career is only creating new things and there’s little to no options when choosing to support existing things. Some things have survived by chance and/or something to keep employees busy, but it’s unintentional.

SomeGuy69 ,
@SomeGuy69@lemmy.world avatar

On another news “Why is everyone hating google now?” lol

_sideffect ,

Let’s hope this doesn’t only support FAT32 so we can actually add movies to it

108 ,

Another one for the graveyard

FordBeeblebrox ,

Killedbygoogle.com

thezeesystem ,

Me - Ok Google, give me a open source way to turn my raspberry pi into a 4k streaming box.

Google - Got it. Playing Tyler Swift on living room tv

Me - wtf?

avidamoeba ,
@avidamoeba@lemmy.ca avatar

HardKernel makesa a few ODROID models that come with available Android TV builds. Some have the same chipset as the AMLogic on the CCwGTV 4K and they aren’t terribly expensive. If I wanted an open source Chromecast replacement I’d go for that.

variants ,

Damm I’ve used these to stream my security cameras to portable monitors around the house. I hope they keep working

LainTrain , (edited )

RIP to a real one.

Back in the day when streaming was cheap as hell and made sense as all things were on Netflix, having a Home Mini with and a Chromecast was bliss.

I used to have a shortcut for the phrase “I’m so tired”, it would start playing Star Trek TNG from Netflix on the Chromecast monitor and it just werked. Saved me from a bad trip once too, I was really uncomfortable on 135ug so in a desperate attempt to hold onto reality I said “alexa…uhmm…uh…hey google play RoboCop” and it just worked.

Only thing is it played the wrong RoboCop (2014) but that only distracted me from spiraling further, like “hold up Samuel L Jackson was in this?”

It feels weird to say but I was a genuinely happy customer. Then the home mini stopped working as well, started triggering by itself, didn’t hear words right, then the Chromecast had trouble updating firmware and rebooting. Then Netflix platformed that douchebag chapelle.

Now all that’s left of it is the pihole I used to block ads for it.

2pt_perversion ,

I guess onn is going to completely take over the low price streaming box market then.

cupcakezealot ,
@cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

i mean not surprising since google tv with chromecast has been superior and the next logical step for it

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