News Forget buying an expensive TV for Black Friday — this dongle gave my 'old' TV new life

[AC News]

There are bound to be plenty of sales on TVs during Black Friday, but this little Google TV dongle gets the job done.

Forget buying an expensive TV for Black Friday — this dongle gave my 'old' TV new life : Read more

 

[curthibbs]

There are bound to be plenty of sales on TVs during Black Friday, but this little Google TV dongle gets the job done.

Forget buying an expensive TV for Black Friday — this dongle gave my 'old' TV new life : Read more

I love the functionality of this little device and also really appreciate the minimalistic remote. However, I found the device really anemic and under powered, so I eventually gave it up and got an NVidia Shield instead. Same experience, but better performance. Google hasn't refreshed this device for years, now. They really need to do that.

 

[rvbfan]

What year is this?

 

[fuzzylumpkin]

What year is this?

It was only released 3 years ago...

 

[rvbfan]

Exactly.

 

[fuzzylumpkin]

Exactly.

If there's something newer that's better I would legitimately like to hear about it. The Chromecast with Google TV is hellishly buggy, although the current build seems relatively solid.