Android TV as Fast As Possible
Techquickie
·Techquickie
·2016-05-06
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879 words · ~4 min read
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Smart TVs have been around for a while now, and the things they offer generally
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make a lot of sense for especially people who want to cut the cord, that
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is, get rid of their expensive cable TV or satellite subscription and only watch
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the cheaper or sometimes even free content that's available online. And
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while this functionality won't seem like anything groundbreaking to Windows Media
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Center or XBMC afficionados, not everyone wants a full-blown PC clunking
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up their living room. So, smart TVs, great underlying concept. So, why
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exactly is it that commercial smart TVs never caught on on their own and
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manufacturers ended up cramming them down our throats by eventually phasing
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out dumb TVs altogether? Well, if you've
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ever used one, you probably know. weird remotes and control schemes that never
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work. Useless voice recognition, anemic
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hardware and software that ranged from halfass to were these games made by a
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bunch of kindergarteners in comas. But
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there's hope. Google wants to give the smart TV a real boost in popularity with
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an OS that they're calling Android TV, which is pretty much exactly what it
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sounds like, Android on your television. Whoa, Lionus, bro. Doesn't Google
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already have the chcast? How's this new? Well, yes, they do. But while their $30
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HDMI dongle that smartens up your TV a
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little by using a small Wi-Fi antenna to receive online video content from your
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wireless devices and your router was very successful. Android TV builds on it
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in a number of ways. The new OS is built
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around voice searching and can answer complicated queries from the user. For
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example, you can ask your TV to show you all the movies that won an Oscar in 2010
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and then pick one from that list seconds later. Android TV also delivers the best
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of both worlds in terms of control. You can thankfully use a full-size TV remote
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instead of having to fumble around for your smartphone to control it. Like the
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chcast, you can download and use Google Play apps directly on the device instead
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of having to beam them from a mobile device with the latency that comes along
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with that. And there's no need to abandon the ability to flick whatever
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you're watching on your tablet or phone to your TV if you so desire. But what
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about the folks who aren't content to sit and
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watch? Well, Android TV has another big ticket feature, its potential as a
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gaming platform. Now, although Android devices can't match the raw power of a
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desktop or gaming laptop, they still
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have a wide variety of less graphically demanding titles to offer. And the idea
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of Android gaming in the living room has gained enough traction that multiplayer
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games and the consoles with accompanying premium grade controllers to go with
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them are emerging on the platform. Not to mention that some of these devices
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can even link up with a gaming PC elsewhere in your house for a low
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latency big screen PC gaming experience
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using local network streaming. Which leads really well into the next point.
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Lionus, I don't care about any of that. I just want to watch Orange is the New Black and all of your awesome videos on
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YouTube without chucking out my old dumb TV. Do I really have to go and buy a
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brand new TV with Android TV on board to do it? Not at all. With even premium
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gaming options like the ones we just showed from companies like Razer and
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NVIDIA coming in at $100 to $200, you can bet your crystal balls that more
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affordable, almost as good choices will be cheap as chips in the coming years or
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even months. And thanks to Android's increasingly unified experience, crummy
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apps and interfaces should be pretty much a thing of the past. As long as you
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