Google’s Best-ever 4k Streamer Is Within $1 Of Its Lowest Price

Google’s TV Streamer 4K is connected waste for $79.99 ($20 off).

It’s uncommon to find a gadget that tin grip 2 wholly abstracted tasks very well, but Google’s TV Streamer 4K pulls it off. The 4K group apical container allows you to watercourse your favourite TV shows and movies, and is besides an awesome smart location hub, pinch support for Matter and a built-in Thread radio. It’s presently connected waste for $79.99 ($20 off) astatine Amazon, Best Buy, and Walmart, which is its lowest value since May, and a dollar awkward of its lowest value to date.

The TV Streamer 4K is bigger than a streaming dongle for illustration nan Fire TV Stick, but won’t return up overmuch room connected apical of your TV stand. It has a gigabit ethernet larboard for wired networking and a HDMI 2.1 larboard to nonstop a 4K 60Hz awesome to your TV aliases projector. It supports aggregate HDR (High Dynamic Range) and situation sound audio formats, including Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos. In our tests, nan TV Streamer 4K took astir 10 minutes to group up — including downloading and installing a package update — erstwhile utilizing nan Google Home app connected a smartphone. The TV Streamer asks whether you’d for illustration to group up a child’s floor plan during setup, which is adjuvant if you person kids. 

The Google TV Streamer 4K runs connected Android TV, which we recovered easy to navigate utilizing buttons connected nan distant aliases our sound via nan remote’s built-in mic and Google Assistant. Google Assistant recognized our sound requests, and took america straight to nan shows we wanted to watch (most of nan time). Android TV has apps for each awesome streaming service, and popping successful and retired of them perpetually tin get tedious, which is why it’s bully to person reliable on-board sound controls. 

If you want a Google Home Hub to power your smart location gadgets, nan TV Streamer 4K is simply a awesome choice. You tin usage it to link smart lights, locks, and thermostats to Google Home, and erstwhile these devices are configured, you tin power them from nan TV Streamer 4K by utilizing Google Assistant aliases navigating to a Home panel. It only took a fewer seconds to tally a segment controlling aggregate smart location devices simultaneously. If your TV’s built-in streaming apps are emotion sluggish, aliases you want to grow your smart location into nan surviving room, nan Google TV Streamer 4K is simply a awesome prime — particularly now that it’s connected sale. 

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