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- Google has announced that affordable Google-powered TVs with “low RAM” are in the works.
- This comes a while after we first heard that Android TV now requires 1GB of RAM instead of 1.5GB.
- We hope these TVs still offer a pleasant experience, as cheap Android TV and Google TV devices are more prone to performance issues.
You don’t have to pay an arm and a leg for a smart TV running the Android TV or Google TV platforms, but non-smart TVs are still significantly cheaper. Now, Google has announced that smart TVs with reduced RAM are coming.
Shobana Radhakrishnan, Google’s senior director of engineering for TV, confirmed in a YouTube video that “low RAM Google TVs” are on the way: