I like discovering offers on units that pull double responsibility, because it feels prefer it’s stretching my greenback even additional. That’s why Google’s discounted TV Streamer (4K) caught my consideration this week. It’s not only a highly effective streaming system but additionally a fantastic good dwelling hub — one you’ll be able to presently seize from Amazon, Walmart, Best Buy, and Google for round $84 ($16 off), which is simply $5 shy of its lowest value thus far.
Google’s newest set-top field is a transparent improve over the corporate’s prior streaming dongle, the Chromecast with Google TV. It continues to run on the corporate’s intuitive Google TV software program and helps each Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos, whereas providing entry to a wide selection of streaming apps. However, beneath the hood, it packs twice as a lot RAM and 4 instances the quantity of storage. The included distant additionally encompasses a new customizable shortcut button, and now you can use the field itself to ping your distant when you’ll be able to’t discover it.
But what actually units the streaming system aside is what it does past streaming. It doubles as a wonderful good dwelling hub with help for Matter, Thread, and Google Assistant voice controls by way of the distant. It additionally encompasses a built-in ethernet port for dependable connectivity and a brand new good dwelling panel, which helps you to management suitable good dwelling units, corresponding to lights and thermostats, straight out of your display. You may even use it to view dwell digicam feeds in your TV and pull up a livestream when somebody rings your video doorbell.
