Chromecast with Google TV (4K) Snow – Streaming
Chromecast with Google TV (4K) Snow – Streaming entertainment on your TV with voice search – Watch films, TV programmes, Netflix, NOWTV and more in 4K HDR – Simple setup
| Dimensions: | 28.39 x 9.91 x 2.95 cm; 107.1 Grams |
| Model: | GA01919-GB |
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| Dimensions: | 28.39 x 9.91 x 2.95 cm; 107.1 Grams |
Simple interface, easy to use, compact and aesthetic. I bought it to use directly with my projector and it has been one of my best purchases so far, completely satisfied. The control buttons get dirty easily, you have to clean them constantly but other than that everything excellent.
I bought two of these purely because they were on sale, usually they are the same price as the basic Fire-stick.
However I I can whole hardheartedly recommend these over the Fire-stick we have!!
Better signal, easy to use and these come with volume control where as the fire-stick priced equivalent does not.
Excelle
This does what it says on the tin streaming/making a stupid TV smarter and functionality wise very similar to the firestick so it comes down to two things for me
1)Price point (As I live in Ireland difficult to get Firestick at cheap sale point)
2)the remote (I much prefer the firestick remote, that clicks and snaps while this one doesn’t: This is a small thing but in terms of everyday use I found the Google remote too small and the lack of clicking buttons unsatisfying)
Strangely enough after the update it didn’t tell my to download an app or even use my phone, it just accepted my google login and that was it.
All the usual streaming apps are installed and of course you can use google play apps, even managed to get the remote to switch my TV on/off and control volume.
The remote pairs well with my TV. Picture is good quality and the apps work fast. Doesn’t support all the media streaming apps that phones do, but overall very good.
Got this set up nice and easy. Didn’t bother setting up the Google home app or anything. Just needed my to verify my Google account and then went straight ahead and started streaming. Was concerned it might not pick up signal being behind the TV set, but no issues there.
Then, I gave the Chromecast with Google TV a shot. It transformed my viewing experience! The interface is slick, voice search is a time-saver, and the range of entertainment options is vast. The 4K HDR quality is just the cherry on top.
Interestingly, I now prefer using Chromecast over my TV’s native software. And I’m not alone in this.
For anyone wanting to up their TV game, I’d highly recommend this. Dive into a world of smooth streaming and expansive entertainment choices. Enjoy!
Price wise, this falls in-between the cheaper Amazon FireSticks (especially on sale) and the more expensive 4k FireSticks.
Performance wise, I’d say this feels closer to the cheaper FireSticks. Interface can feel laggy at times, especially if you scroll through quickly. It does the job though and never quite feels frustrating. It handles 1080p video well, including streaming through Stremio.
Aesthetically, the setup looks much nicer than the FireStick and has a more permission finish. The Google operating system also offers more customisation and features than Amazon’s.
You’re paying a few quick extra for a better looking and more customisable experience (full access to Google play store etc.)
Super sleek lay out and easy to navigate and simple set up.Loads of apps you can download also.If you want to turn your TV into a Android TV just go for it.
I love my Chromecast! So easy to install, makes my older TV into a smart TV, what more can you ask for!
Got this on primeday deals so got it on a great price, but would definitely buy it full price, well worth the money!
Easy to set up and install. My old Sharp TV wasn’t recognised when setting up remote but I but when I switched the make to Bush TV the remote worked with the Sharp. Nice design, missing Ch 4 ,My 5 and Sky Go but I can cast them. Tried side-loading Ch4 and it works but functionality is not great. The device itself works great.
Good stuff, make its job, too bad HBO is not available in UK.
My daughter told me to get this and i.m glad she did. Enjoying extra TV channels and music on Spotify. Best money I spent.
Sat for hours trying to connect as it barely explains anything and wouldn’t connect to our WiFi !?
Very handy remote control well worth upgrading to this model
Bought this instead of top box, nice and neat can get all Disney+ Amazon prime etc great gadge
Like this better than the fire stick I have. Each to there own.
I bought this to stream my Meta Quest II headset sessions to my TV. It does the job I bought it for, so I have no complaints. Easy to use, and neatly tucked away behind my TV. It’s great.
This is a marvelous little bit of kit for a technophobe like me. I feel we have joined the 21st century… Well as far as tv is concerned anyway.
I am glad I purchased this as I couldn’t get Disney+ on my TV and my mom couldn’t get prime on hers as it was saying out TVs weren’t compatible, but since having this Google Chromecast stick we are able to get everything including prime, Disney+, YouTube, Netflix and many more. I also like how you can use voice search on everything instead of typing which used to be annoying when we did it on the TV apps. Overall happy with purchase as there are plenty of apps and movies/programs to watch, highly recommend.
Perfect peice of technology does exactly what it says, so good my son in law is replacing his old one with this one
Great item, does what it says and all in one area makes things a lot easier when you don’t have a tele with all the apps. Cannot complain at all!
The product seems to be good. It it very easy to setup and getting. It’s easy to use the product on screen and a good remote control.
Ordered for my mum’s smart TV as it has lost one streaming channel so far and will most likely lose more as time goes on. Setting it up couldn’t be simpler. It works well for streaming. It has also changed the video aspect of the smart TV when it’s not using Chromecast and my mum prefers it. She’s very happy.
I stay away a lot due to my job so this is a must for the hotel room. I plug it into the TV, connect to WiFi then select a platform to watch something. Disney+, Netflix, Amazon video, YouTube and more is available to entertain and all via the remote control.
I had the old Chromecast where everything was controlled by your mobile phone and whilst that was okay this newer version is on another level, the remote control makes it so much easier.
This is brilliant! Full and totally up to date Google TV on any TV screen with a spare HDMI socket. We’ve added it to a non smart Samsung TV and what a transformer. Full smart TV now. We have Google TV on the main TV in the living room, a Sony, but ITV player still isn’t properly ITVX and not possible to watch ITV live, however, via this Chrome device the kitchen TV actually has the most up to date version, and with live broadcast streaming of ITV. Small point, but it demonstrates that all Apps are most up to date versions. Highly recommended for the price.
he product is good. like you expect from a billion dollar company. do everything what you wish. but the delivery time increased 150%. dont expect to have it next day. they will deliver you within couple of days. yes, i know, its says get it tomorrow…….but no. trust me. its a lie
Easy to use but some apps can be buggy and you need to force restart stick to get things working again.
App selection a bit lacking compared to normal play store stuff so beware if you want certain apps to research
Picture and sound quality is good
Only cons are below (but I would still buy again):
1) Once you turn the TV off and on again, if it was on an adult profile, it doesn’t require the PIN, so kids can access. Perhaps this could be improved on future versions.
2) Although you have many more apps than the competitor’s “stick”, it is not like you will have full access to the Android apps you see on your phone. You will have full access to Android apps made for TV, which are not that much compared to the phone.
3) YouTube version for Chromecast is worse than for mobile (perhaps needs an update to mirror the mobile version).
Overall its a great streamer and works fine. We have recently bought into the Google Eco Sytem so we wanted a Google TV streamer to link it all up rather than use devices across different systems. It works fine and is easy to setup/ use.
In my opinion the Apple TV 4K is better and quicker however it is also more expensive so that isn’t surprising. However I prefer this over previous Roku and Alexa streamers I have had.
The only thing this device lacks is an ethernet port which I would like, however Google do sell an aptable as a part of the a USB C charging cable – although this has been out of stock for months.
Would reccomend to anyone who has other google devices or anyone looking for a cheaper 4k streamer.
I am not really sure to be honest why I needed one, except my husband kept going on and on how fabulous they were.
So I took the plunge when it was Amazon prime week, and got the promotion. The cost at the time was 33.32, however had a 10 voucher, so added it. So the final costing 29.98. The price has gone back to the original and current cost of 58.78.
So basically the Chromecast is a dongle that fits either at the side of your TV or the back, depending on the model.
Arrived the next day with Prime, and to be honest wasn’t in a good place to get excited because all these type things come to me to sort with passwords etc as I am the one that knows them all.
I left it a day, and felt much better the next day. I need not have worried, apart from putting the dongle in the Hisense TV, I just followed the instructions. One thing that always happens to me, same with “Alexa” takes an age for the wifi to connect. The initial set up was easy, remember to download the app on your phone so you can cast to the TV. Everything was fine and eventually worked well after twenty minutes for a decent signal from my wifi to connect, tried re-booting the signal, plug in and out etc. Eventually worked. I do get this issue with everything that needs to be synced. I had the same issue when on Virgin BB, now the same with the new provider. Maybe walls etc to close to the hub, I am not sure, but anyway, the main thing I got it up and running.
We have just had our Pagan wedding review and had a stack of photos and my husband thought you could just cast from my phone and magically will appear on screen, well if it does, I have yet to suss that one out. According to Google, I have to download Google photo app to show on screen. So I downloaded the app, but in truth not looked on the TV as yet.
Unlike Netflix which I can watch in any room, the Chromecast only works on one TV at a time, so although everything comes through my TV in my downstairs bedroom, I would need to remove the dongle into the living room.
One thing I wasn’t happy about, the dongle overlaps two ports on the back back of my TV. My TV size in the bedroom is 43-46″. The dongle is big, and because of this and the overlapping of the port, I had to remove my NOW TV stick. So not happy about that. Why such a big dongle, some ports from different makes of TV maybe fine.
Another beef I have on the white control panel. So a scenic for you as I did it. I was watching for the umpteenth time Vikings, I got it ready and got in bed to watch with my husband. I clicked play, and it went back to the beginning of season one. Same with anything I watch, if I pause a film and press the button it goes off and I have to redo the lot again, this is a pain, as a program with a lot of seasons is a nightmare as it just will not pause and start in the same place. If I say paused to go for a toilet break, then hit play, it comes on fine, but leaving more than five minutes, the screensaver comes on and all lost, so basically I do not bother setting anything up if I am going to be a while.
I feel although the white control feels nice in the hand, there just isn’t enough to work with.
Now for the actual streaming, majority of what we have watched is pretty good, maybe because I have ultra 4K not sure, but going from Netflix to say you tube is very fast, better than using Netflix from the TV.
The volume on the side of the control doesn’t work unless you set it up correctly, go up to at least 80. Not that you will need it that loud, but I find it useful when watching old films that are not good quality.
Chromecast hasn’t got many apps at all, and certain ones to use need a subscription. I would have thought Now TV would be on there, but it isn’t, so that makes a mockery of having all the apps in one place.
Google do need to change the Chromecast, it is a bit behind some of the leaders. Firstly it is quite costly if other people want to watch their own device, the Chromecast isn’t multifunctional with all family members, only one.
Not all channels from your TV will show on Chromecast. For example channel 4 etc. So you may have to source it from free view or freesat etc.
There are a lot of you tube videos that actually are pretty good if you wanted to get the best out of it.
It is nice to have just the one control
So I have gone through some basics, some maybe irrelevant, some maybe useful, I am still learning.
I do like the colour of the control and the Google assist works well
I am getting used to just one control instead of three, so that’s a bonus.
It is a useful device, and I do use the Chromecast everyday,
I have given 4* because there are more apps that should and could be included, and that being said, free apps..
If you have a standard definition TV, maybe more advantageous having ultra HD or similar.
Amazon works well and Netflix.
I would only buy the Chromecast when on offer, I got a good price, so quite happy.
This should not be called a Chromecast with Google TV but rather should be titled Google TV with Chromecast. It is so much more than a Chromecast thanks to the great software that is Google TV.
The Google TV OS is great because you are using android which results in apps that are android TV variants of the mobile ones and the app store selection is second to none. Want to watch a streaming service but watch the content store of another country by using a VPN? No problem! Download your VPN app (check to make sure your app for your VPN is available first before buying, most of the big providers are) sign in and presto it works just like on a computer or mobile device would. Plus you can side-load apps too.
I also want to say that the streaming quality is a good improvement over my TV now, it almost instantly brings out 4K with HDR even running on a VPN and still loads faster than my TV would not on a VPN on 1080p. The OS runs really smoothly so going in and out of apps is seamless and it remembers where you left off within the apps even if you turn off your TV (which turns off the device as well). It also picked up my LG TV remote which I can use just like the Google TV remote and didn’t even need to set it up, it just worked. Loading time when you turn back on your TV is almost nonexistent which makes it feel like you’re waking up a computer screen than starting up a device.
The Google assistant speech recognition is good, as good as it is on a newish android phone or Google assistant speaker but not much else to say other than the recommendations it brings in results are satisfying in general and you can also say instructions like close and open an app. It also supports Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos making the most of my older TV that was one of the first to feature these enhancers and is on constantly by default so everything looks more detailed and natural, even Youtube.
The drawback of this device I would say is there is no USB port if you wanted to plug into it so you’re stuck with your TV on this but depending on the app some support access to Google Drive which is better than nothing if you are trying to access a file on the device.
Another possible drawback is to really make the most of Google TV you would ideally need to be subscribed to a few streaming services as it creates a recommendation screen on the home screen of content from all the different platforms so without this you don’t benefit as much and will obviously return fewer results when you do a search.
I purchased mine at 33% off and for the price, it is easily one of the best-valued purchases I have ever made. I hope this review helps you with understanding what this device is capable of.