- More information has come to light about the supposed “Google TV Streamer” we first heard about last week.
- It looks like the streaming box could have an Ethernet port as well as Thread support.
- Both features would make the Google TV Streamer much more robust and powerful than any of its predecessors.
For years now, Google’s media streaming hardware has been made up of small, dongle-like devices, making them easy to install and hide behind your television. However, these simple form factors prohibited those devices from being as powerful as some competitor devices, such as the Roku Ultra, NVIDIA Shield TV, Apple TV 4K, and Amazon Fire TV Cube. Last week, though, we heard about a new rumored streamer from Google that would go up against these higher-end devices.
Tentatively known as the “Google TV Streamer,” this new device takes the set-top box approach, abandoning the tiny dongle form factor of Google’s past streamers. Because of this increase in size, Google is able to offer a lot more processing power as well as new ports and features.