Mountain View is launching its Apple TV alternative, a product that looks extremely promising and has a spectacular design. Let’s take a look at this latest announcement from Google, the TV Streamer (4K) with which it intends to replace the famous Chromecast with very interesting features.
This new product aims to be a complete multimedia center, as the Apple TV or the Amazon Fire TV Cube already are. With this, we find a device with a unique and innovative design, which only inherits the control of what its previous versions would be.
It will be able to offer 4K content, compatible with the most common HDR protocols such as Dolby Vision and HDR10+. Likewise, sound plays an important role in how we enjoy home theater, which is why it is compatible with Dolby Digital+ and Dolby Atmos, among other alternatives.
In terms of connectivity, it lags a little, It offers us dual-band AC WiFi and Bluetooth 5.1, so it is not updated “to the latest version”. In this, it lags behind the current Apple TV 4K, which uses a newer WiFi 6 network port.
However, This Google Streamer (4K) comes with an Ethernet port in all its versions, but not in the Apple TV, which costs $20 more to add. The device’s RAM is 4GB, while storage remains at just 32GB in total, with the Apple TV starting at 64GB.
Obviously, it will run a clean version of Android TV and work through Google Assistant if we want. However, what seems to me to be the most differential point, It is the fact that it has a USB-C port to be able to connect any type of storage, at the same time as it has the standard Matter and border router Thread, something exclusive to the more expensive versions of the Apple TV.
The price will be only 119 dollars, a very low price at which it can be purchased from September 24, while the cheapest Apple TV currently starts at $169.
