with a success under its belt with the
chromecast Google is officially renewing
its assault in the living room with
Android TV dvds are fast becoming
smarter and more connected and really
there are becoming computing devices in
their own right so we see a great
opportunity to bring some of the strong
capabilities of Android running on the
Android L Developer Preview you'll find
android TV on set-top boxes somewhere to
apple TV Roku and consoles but with an
added focus on gaming today's
announcement confirms details learned by
the virgins past April Google TV launch
2010 with its apparent ambition to turn
your television into a smart phone is
now firmly in the past Android TV is
Google's rekindled vision for your
home's largest screen and considerably
sleeker and more in line with the
competition's offerings entertainment is
paramount this time around as a software
surfaces content from the google play
store and requisite partners like
netflix and hulu it provides
recommendations based on what you watch
search is also baked into the experience
using Google's knowledge graph to
provide contextual information for your
favorite programs and then there's games
gamers will be able to play multiplayer
games online and earn achievements via
the google play games network the games
google is showing off are basically
android level which does it say alright
but not totally mind-blowing and yes
there's a game controller android TV
requires just a d-pad with voice input
users can even control the software
using an android wear watch upcoming
2015 TV sets from sony sharp TP vision
and phillips will have android TV
built-in razor and assumes also plan to
make set-top streaming boxes that can be
added to existing sets speaking a
chromecast which is apparently really
popular there's a new update where you
can mirror your android device to your
TV and anyone will be able to chromecast
to your TV without needing to be on your
Wi-Fi network android TV is coming to
this fall alongside android l
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