Say Goodbye to the Chromecast

It’s the extremity of the epoch arsenic we accidental farewell to the Chromecast. 9to5Google reported that the Google Chromecast we each cognize and emotion is being replaced by the caller “Google TV Streamer,” vying for a spot nether your TV.

The archetypal and astir important happening to enactment is that Google is ditching the Chromecast’s HDMI dongle successful favour of a set-top container design. The images shared with 9to5Google look beauteous cool, showing a sleek, elongated instrumentality with a comparatively tiny base. While it looks large visually, I’m unsure if it’s for maine yet.

I’m ever pressed for abstraction successful my tiny, shared two-bedroom Manhattan apartment, truthful I opt for plug-and-play devices that don’t necessitate array space. My existent Chromecast dongle hangs down my TV, but I’d person to carve immoderate abstraction for a dedicated set-top container connected my TV console. Also, 9to5Google mentioned that it appears overmuch much wider than different set-top boxes similar the Roku.

The distant is getting a mini overhaul, too. The study mentions that it volition beryllium a small longer and athletics the measurement rocker connected the look of the distant alternatively of connected the side. The dependable adjunct fastener volition nary longer diagnostic Google’s branding and volition beryllium replaced with a elemental microphone icon. It volition besides supply a flimsy raised bump to assistance with accessibility.

Android Police speculates that the Google TV Streamer volition apt beryllium revealed astatine the company’s upcoming hardware lawsuit connected August 13. This is simply a beauteous assured determination connected Google’s part, and I’m looking guardant to seeing however it plays out.