It was easy to predict but that doesn't make it any less sad. Discontinued way back in 2016, Google's Nexus Player is officially reaching the end of the road in terms of software support as well.
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Google Assistant is adding Android TV set-top boxes and smart TVs to a list of voice-enhanced devices including phones, watches, speakers and headphones.
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Technically, the NVIDIA Shield TV set-top box isn't getting upgraded or revised today. It's merely ditching the controller to save you 20 bucks.
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A list of bullet points and plenty of speculation as to where the next version of Android will go. But will all of these features land in May?
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We recently caught a few more pixels that have slipped into the Google Play Movies catalog. Now, those pixels have made themselves known.
Google has announced that over 125 motion pictures are now available in UHD quality with Google’s own VP9 codec. US and Canada residents can now purchase and stream 4K movies on their Android device, Chromecast Ultra, Sony Bravia Android TV, Xiaomi Mi Box 3, 2016 model year Samsung Smart TVs and on the desktop.
Options for 4K to rent and 4K to buy are scattered and both may not necessarily be available on a single movie. Rentals generally go for US$7.99 while purchases are US$29.99.
Those with new Chromecast Ultra devices can take advantage of a coupon for a free viewing of “Ghostbusters: Answer The Call,” “Captain Phillips” or one of a few other flicks in 4K as long as they grab a coupon code by December 31 and use it up by April 30.
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While 4K-capable digital media players are slowly starting to become the industry norm rather than the exception (save for Apple TVs), and you can find several of them at very reasonable prices, the $99 Remix IO is so much more than that.It’s a gaming console ...
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We know that LeEco will finally introduce itself to the US on October 19 and we know that the Chinese company will have an ecosystem of lifestyle technologies it has to build out. But we now are told that at two of the six products it will launch that Wednesday will be smartphones.The LeMall US site had apparently published the pages of six products before they were to be ...
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Did Google just kill the Chromecast (or simply Cast) Ultra before the $70 4K streaming dongle could even go official? Well, not directly, but the search giant clearly worked in conjunction with Xiaomi on the latter’s
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Plex, the media serving software that can beam music, movies and more to any screen you have, is setting up shop with NVIDIA and its Shield TV product.Thanks to the Shield TV’s Tegra X1 processor, though, it’s capable of far more than what the Android TV app it’s running can do. For example, multiple-stream, hardware-accelerated transcoding will definitely help smooth out the picture ...
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The Nexus Player is done. It’s been done at many retailers for the past few months, but it’s especially done now as the Google Store has stopped selling it. In fact, the product page doesn’t exist anymore — the link that would take you there redirects to the Google Store’s TV & ...
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While I/O’s main goal has always been to inform software developers of Google innovations in various operating systems, apps and platforms, the search giant diversified the scope of San Francisco announcements in recent years, also focusing on hardware.But yesterday’s conference was different, not only by taking place in Mountain View. At the same time, there was nothing new to show off on the Nexus front, and Android Wear’s ...
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More Chinese manufacturers are on their way to the US, though it’s still all for show at this point. ZTE has a full-page ad in the Wall Street Journal, while Huawei’s still holding off on whatever improvements it may or may not have for the Nexus 6P. More relevant to this week’s events, Meizu is said to be
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If Google wants to be the a media medium to be reckoned with, it’s going to need more support. From Play to Android TV and Chromecast, the Google label might be high-profile for the under 35s and high-IQ for those uninformed and uninterested. But if you can build it into ordinary products, then they may just ...
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Just because NVIDIA jumped the gun with what looked like an early Black Friday deal on the Shield Android TV set-top box last week, it doesn’t mean the gaming pro can’t up the bargain ante between November 26 and 28.Thursday through Saturday therefore, you can grab the microconsole for even less directly from the Santa Clara-based device manufacturer, as well as Best Buy, GameStop, Micro Center, and Fry’s Electronics.What does this less mean? An incredibly reasonable $150, which is technically ...
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The black month discount fever is slowly but surely taking over carriers, retailers and device manufacturers as diverse as T-Mobile, Cricket Wireless, Best Buy, HTC, and NVIDIA, with the last name added on that list offering a promotion bound to thrill both gamers ...
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