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yeah we're making a video about a chromecast but we have a good reason

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this isn't just a chromecast not anymore it's got

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a remote okay sure yeah it's still plays

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content that is casted from your device and i'm pretty

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sure it's chrome plated but it also supports 4k dolby vision and dolby atmos

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it can stream games locally and from the cloud it can read external storage and

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use Ethernet and it can even make video calls wait

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that's just an NVIDIA shield how much is this thing

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since the first one launched for 35 bucks in 2013 chromecasts have been an

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inexpensive way to throw content from your phone or your chrome browser up on

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the big screen and the low price made sense because it was essentially a

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wireless display adapter more than it was a home entertainment device updates

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over the years enabled casting in a plethora of Android apps and added

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support for features like 4k resolution and 60fps but the chromecast itself has

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remained an enigmatic inaccessible dongle like what mysteries

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lie beneath your plastic shell well we don't have to wonder anymore because the

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chromecast with google tv still does all of that stuff but also has an actual

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user interface called google tv

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and here's the awesome thing it is not the same google tv that google killed

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back in 2014 thank goodness google tv is just a skin on top of

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Android tv sort of like the custom Android forks that companies like

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samsung pre-install on their phones google tv is also an Android app which

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will eventually replace google play movies and play tv but it also seems

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like google tv will eventually just be what everyone calls Android tv you know

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the whole thing's getting pretty convoluted the point is this thing runs Android tv and is

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therefore capable of some of those awesome things we mentioned before

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because of the Android app ecosystem of course this is all nothing new there are

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a ton of Android tv boxes out there it's just that most of them come with

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significant compromises amazon's fire devices are inexpensive but they don't

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natively support casting or dongles and you're stuck with alexa and amazon's

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fire os version of Android there are tons of chinese-made Android boxes that

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look amazing but end up having janky software and well good luck sorting out

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any returns or repairs there's the two NVIDIA shield tv models which are

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freaking amazing with their ai upscaling and low latency game streaming but

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they start at 150 us dollars and hey

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what's this ah yes the tivo stream 4k

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which is basically the same device as the chromecast with google tv but with

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an older processor uglier remote and a worse interface now the experience is

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very similar to alternatives from apple amazon and roku it presents movies and

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tv shows from across all your streaming services allowing you to browse content

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by type and jump right into the app where you can watch it you can search by

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voice with google assistant through the remote add to your watch list for later

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viewing and like titles to teach google's algorithm about your

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preferences look i already told you if canaries isn't it i don't want to see it

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and of course you can also directly open streaming apps to use their interfaces

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or fire up any other apps that you might have side loaded i mean playing halo on

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this thing it's just uh well let's not get carried away yet

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the dongle uses the same floppy pebble design as its direct predecessors but

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now it looks as slick as you will with a new shirt from ltdstore.com it comes in

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three colors and feels real nice in the hand which doesn't matter but hey when

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you imagine it back there you'll be like nice there's the HDMI output just like

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before but the micro usb port has finally been upgraded to usbc and this

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one isn't just for charging that's right you can plug anything in there like the

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official 20 chromecast Ethernet adapter

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or even a random generic usbc dongle

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with Ethernet sd card slot and extra usb

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ports just make sure that you choose a dongle that has another usbc port on it to pass

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through power and that you use a greater than seven and a half watt power adapter

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since that adapter now has to power anything connected to the hub as well as

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the chromecast with the hub you can do things like play

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video files directly off of external storage devices with a file manager app

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you can connect usb peripherals like mice keyboards and controllers if you

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don't have wireless ones on hand you can plug in a webcam for big screen video

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calls although apps other than google duo seem to require some tinkering and

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you can take advantage of a wired internet connection although i should

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point out that our speed test results going from wireless to Ethernet were

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weird to say the least we doubled our upload speed but then decreased our

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download speed i guess such inconsistencies aren't that

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surprising given the amlogic s 905 d3 processor and its 4 pinner ARM cortex

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855 course and fortunately it didn't affect our

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ability to stream even high bit rate blu-ray rips from plex but i though i do

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wonder if there's some work that could be done to smooth that out now it's time

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to get into why we wanted to take a look at this thing in the first place it's a

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good casting an Android tv stick but who didn't see that coming what i wanted to

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know was for just fifty dollars how does

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it measure up to something like the NVIDIA shield can the chromecast with

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google tv game

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the answer is yes like don't get me wrong 3d Android

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games aren't going to run the smoothest assuming you can even clear enough space

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to install them on the chromecast's 4 gigs of usable storage but they do run

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and as for game streaming well you can do it both in-home and from the cloud

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Android tv optimized versions of apps like steam link moonlight and even

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GeForce now are directly available from the play store and performances

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well it's as good as your network connection

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here at the office we experienced virtually no lag streaming games from a

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local pc even on wi-fi and just a little

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bit more playing cloud games via GeForce now but that's because our networking

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setup here is balls to the wall at home however riley noticed

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significant lag streaming both from his gaming pc and from the cloud and

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strangely both over Wi-Fi and a wired

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connection though like maybe it's not that strange we did note in his tech

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upgrade video that his home router is pretty awful riley really though your

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home router is awful you gotta upgrade that i didn't know who uses the one from

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their isp now i know

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if you do have decent internet you could even try out some cloud gaming apps that

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you're uh not supposed to

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Android tv doesn't have support for xcloud or stadia yet but you can

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sideload them and play games just fine if by just fine you mean with

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significant lag because gaming on these apps wasn't great even here in the

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office and i can see why they're not officially available yet interestingly

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though there was significantly less lag in all of those game streaming apps on

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the shield tv pro which riley also took

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home for comparison so there you have it if you want a super

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optimized game streaming experience the shield tv might actually be worth the

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extra hundred dollars for anyone else though this is basically

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the only streaming sticky floppy doodle

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that matters unless of course you're one of the dozens of you who are paying

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stadium members in which case support is coming next year so i expect between now

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and then google will either a do some optimization magic to make the

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experience real nice on the chromecast with google tv

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or b just straight up cancel stadia like they do with everything it's basically

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both reliability and performance and it reaches up to 7 000 megabytes per second

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especially as games get optimized for faster ssds it can handle up to 1

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million iops and you can also monitor your drive and take control with the

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maybe check out our full review of the NVIDIA shield tv it really is fantastic

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if you've got an extra 100 to 150 to spend