Credit: C. Scott Brown / Android Authority
TL;DR
- An Android Authority teardown has revealed that Google TV could check if you’re still watching a channel.
- Google TV would run these checks if you haven’t used your remote in a while.
- The platform would then stop playing the channel if you don’t respond to the prompt.
Some streaming services, like Netflix, offer a pop-up to check if you’re still watching a series. This is especially handy if you’ve fallen asleep. Now, we’ve discovered that Google TV itself could get a similar prompt.
We dug into a recent version of the Google TV Home app for the Google TV platform (version 1.0.815784074-735113) and discovered the platform could soon check if you’re still watching TV. The strings mention a few snippets of text, seen below.