By Google has announced the Google TV Streamer, a $99.99 set-top box that aims to take over from Chromecast dongles which the company is ending production of after eleven years.
While updates to those devices will still be provided for a while to come, no more will be sold once supplies run out. Instead comes the Google TV Streamer launching on September 24th which aims to better compete with rivals like Apple TV and Roku.
This isn’t a dongle but a box requiring power and HDMI cables, one much bigger than either of those aforementioned devices, and comes in both white and grey colors (no black).
The box is integrated with the company’s Gemini multimodal artificial intelligence (AI) and also functions as a smart home hub, complete with Thread and Matter support.
The hardware has a 22% faster processor, double the ram and 32gb of storage – still well behind the set-top box power leaders Apple TV 4K and Nvidia Shield TV, but a significant upgrade nonetheless.
It also has support for Dolby Vision, Dolby Atmos, HDMI 2.1a, Wi-Fi 5, gigabit ethernet, and Bluetooth 5.1. Over 100 million Chromecast devices have been sold over the past decade or so.
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