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Google TV Streamer review: A great side piece for your TV, with a dash of smart home chops and (inessential) AI

The Google TV Streamer is a great device, combining speed, an excellent UI and useful smart home control, though a couple of missing features keep it from perfection.

While a couple of missing features make the price feel steep, the Google TV Streamer is a great device, combining speed, an excellent UI and useful smart home control. I asked for bicycles in space and was presented with the standard AI disregard for physics with two rusty bikes fused together to make a three-wheeled monstrosity in front of a Milky Way-esque ribbon of overly bright stars. Yes, the extra RAM and storage is great, but there are a few features — like Wi-Fi 6E support, true assistant capabilities, screaming processor speeds — that Google could have packed in to make the $100 price tag unassailable.

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