Google’s subsequent streaming system might be a set-top field

You have purchased your final Chromecast. 9to5Google has published images of Google’s subsequent streamer, and it is a dongle no extra. The brand new ‘Google TV Streamer’ has a set-top field design, which means that each the dongle design and Chromecast identify are being consigned to the historical past books.

The brand new system has a sloped, vast pill-shaped design, which is way wider than it’s deep, and the printed photos present a white mannequin. It is not clear whether or not different coloration choices might be obtainable as they’re with the Chromecast with Google TV.

The brand new streaming system is prone to be formally introduced on the Made by Google occasion on August 13, the place the Google Pixel 9 might be launched formally launched, regardless of the Pixel 9 Professional having already been revealed.

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No extra Chromecast dongle

The system marks the primary set-top field from Google

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Prior incarnations of the Chromecast have been dongles that plug into an HDMI port and conceal away, dangling like a vestigial tail out of the again of your TV. The primary technology mannequin was the one model and not using a versatile cable, being designed as a stable stick.

The brand new Google TV Streamer marks a serious new course for Google streaming gadgets, being the primary time that the corporate has produced a set-top field that is designed to be positioned in entrance of your TV somewhat than hidden away on the again.

The photographs additionally present the brand new distant, which appears to be like much like the distant that ships with the Chromecast with Google TV, nevertheless it’s not precisely the identical. Beneath the directional pad on the high, it seems to keep up the identical eight buttons from the earlier mannequin, which embrace Residence, Mute, Again, YouTube, Netflix, Energy, and Enter/Supply. The Google Assistant button has been changed with a easy microphone icon, however in all probability fulfills the identical operate.

The largest change is that the quantity controls have now moved to a rocker on the entrance of the distant; on the Chromecast with Google TV, they’re discovered on the right-hand aspect. This could make the distant simpler to make use of, particularly should you’re right-handed, because the aspect buttons generally is a little awkward to succeed in.

Why is Google making a set-top field?

It might be greater than merely taking over the Apple TV

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There are a number of attainable explanation why Google has made this transfer. The obvious is that it needs one thing to compete with different standard set-top containers such because the Apple TV. Nevertheless, the form of the brand new design might trace at one other attainable motive.

Many gadgets are in a position to begin streaming audio or video from one system to a different just by bringing the gadgets shut collectively. For instance, should you’re taking part in music in your iPhone, you may hand it off to a HomePod simply by holding your iPhone near your HomePod. Google has an analogous characteristic with Pixel phones and tablets that permits you to solid music out of your cellphone to your pill or vice versa simply by bringing the gadgets shut collectively.

It might be the case that the lengthy, flat design of the Google TV Streamer is meant to facilitate the power to stream content material to your TV by bringing your cellphone close to to the set-top field. That is pure hypothesis, nevertheless; it might merely be attempting to imitate the design of the huge pill-shaped digicam bump on the upcoming Pixel 9 Professional.

Chromecast with Google TV

Google’s newest model of the Chromecast affords streaming from your entire favourite companies on a small and reasonably priced system that can conceal away behind your TV.