There are many smart TV platforms today: the humble Roku, various Amazon Fire TV devices, Samsung’s Tizen platform, screens with integrated Android TV, Nvidia Shield and even the (relatively) new Chromecast with Google TV. While the Android Police, we clearly care a little more about some of these platforms than others. Given the apparent popularity of the new Chromecast among our readers, we’re curious to see how many of you use an Android TV or Google TV device.
For obvious reasons, we are broadcasting more than ever, but there are many ways to project these programs and films into our eyes. Most of you are probably reading those same words on a phone, and it’s a convenient (albeit small) screen for streaming. Tablets and PCs also have a lot of use, with the advantage of a bigger screen. But for many of us, TV remains king, even though cable TV has become a dodo.
In the world of Android TV, we have the “legacy” version with the same name and the new Google TV from Google, which debuted on Chromecast with Google TV. There are differences and some points of brand confusion – Google TV is a platform and an app, like the new name for Play Movies and TV, that you can watch on Android TV – but in the background, both are running Android, only with a slightly different look (and converging slowly). TVs with Google TV built in are planned later this year by people like Sony and TCL, but none have materialized yet.
If you have a smart TV (or a box or dongle to make it smart), is it running Android TV?
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