There are many smart TV platforms these days: Humble Roku, various Amazon Fire TV devices, Samsung’s Tizen-based platform, screens with Android TV built-in, Nvidia Shield and (relatively) new Chromecast with Google TV. As Android Police, we clearly pay more attention to some of these platforms than others. Given the apparent popularity of the new Chromecast among our readers, we’re curious to know how many of you all use Android TV or Google TV devices.
For obvious reasons, we stream more now than ever before, but there are many ways to project those shows and movies into our eyeballs. Most of you are probably reading these very words on the phone, and it has a convenient (if small) screen to stream. Tablets and PCs also use plenty with the advantages of large performance. But for many of us, TV King remains, even if the cable runs like Dodo.
In the world of Android TV, we’ve got both the “Legacy” version that runs under the same name and Google’s new Google TV, which debuts with Google TV on the self-titled Chromecast. There are differences and some issues of branding confusion – Google TV is a platform And An app, like the new name for Play Movies and TV that you can watch on your Android TV – but from the inside down, it’s both running Android, with a slightly different (and slowly converted) look. TVs with built-in skinny Google TVs are planned later this year from people like Sony and TCL, but none of them have become a reality yet.
If you’ve got a smart TV (or a box or dongle to make it smart), is it running Android TV?
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