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  • Today we can see many good games with better visuals in Andriod, like Modern Combat 5. Now what Google needs to do is making large game developers feel interested about porting games into Android. And thats how Google is planning to enter into console market. I dont know what will happen in the future but this is a smart move from Google.

  • Won’t let me even pre-order the controller. Seems like it is shipping first week of November. Just like the nexus

  • Got mine. Sorry revue. You’re going upstairs to another TV or back in your box. You served us well.

  • I need Ethernet. WiFi is why my Chromecast experience sucks.

    Also want Amazon Prime videos.

    In the meantime I’ll check out a Tronsmart that does more than the Player for less money and has Ethernet.

  • can someone tell me why I need this if I already have a chromecast?

    And by need I mean as much as someone who obsessively buys tech products would need one.

  • Does anyone think that another OEM will make a better unit that will be out soon? The 8 GB of storage is kind of low, especially after the OS install. There is no word on if this takes expandable storage by USB. 1 GB of RAM is kind of disappointing too. Guessing these specs were to hit the price point of $100

    • According to the Nexus Player site, they are only available for pre-sale on the Google Play store. I’m wondering if availability will open up after release.

  • Not sure if I should grab this or the upgraded Chromecast that passed through the FCC recently. I do a lot of YouTube and media casting, but don’t watch much broadcast tv, and don’t have or want cable TV. Opinions, anyone?

  • I almost just bought a 2nd Chromecast. Knowing the new Nexus announcement was coming, I held off thinking maybe we’d see a version 2 of the Chromecast. Glad I waited. I don’t need much more then a Chromecast but will pick this up with a controller to test it out. I wish they gave it an ethernet port.
    I will not pre-order it though. I learned my lesson with the 2012 Nexus 7.

  • Does anyone know if an external drive can be attached to this? Can you download apps directly to this player, say the VLC player? What I’d like is to download an .mkv file and put it on an external drive or usb drive and have VLC player play it instead like a local streamer. Can this be done? I say again, can this be done? Answers! I need them!

    • It does have a USB port so you will likely be able to attach a drive to it. Or you could download PLEX onto it and keep your HD plugged into your computer and have the server running off that. This will more than likely have VLC or MX player or something like that which would play direct MKVs if you want as well.

    • Honestly, with ac wireless, I don’t see much of a benefit to having ethernet. The only real, justified, complaints I have seen about the Chromecast being WiFi only have to do with plugins and apps on the local network producing poorly optimized (or completely unoptimized) video and not having enough throughput on the wireless network to push the video. Never mind that this should be solved by those apps, running this on an ac wireless network should address those issues. All other complaints that I have heard are really about a slow internet connection, which people just attribute to the lack of ethernet anyway.

      • ac wifi is useless in most households due the the requirement for G from appliances like printers and like. Fail comment.

        • What is a printer?

          (This is meant in part to be a dumb comment, to counteract the moot point you made, but also a reference to the fact that I cannot remember the last time I have owned a printer.)

  • im planning pretty much to use this as a plex box, so ill have to wait to make sure that it’ll do HD audio (amazon fire doesnt)

    • Right now I cut the cord so I am not super concerned about passthrough, but passthrough was so clutch on the googleTV. I don’t know why they didnt continue. My guess is another manufacturer will make one with passthrough and ethernet, and I will wait until then. Otherwise the OS and everything else about it is great.

      I also hope they still have a primetime app or something like that.

      • If it had ethernet I would have rolled the dice, now I’ll wait. I’m basically going to swap this our for a Roku 3 to add Google Play media even though I’m losing Amazon Prime video.

        • If the Amazon app is available to the Player, then it shouldn’t be a problem since they added Prime Video to it recently.

          • The Amazon player requires you side-load it. So I guess we’ll have to see if they allow 3rd part apps on it as well.

      • Do you guys keep your router near the TV? Honest question. I personally try to keep as much wiring away from view as possible. Glad this is wireless so I could be behind the TV (Maybe with an IR Blaster if supported.)

        • I do. In my apartment AT&T Uverse can only use one jack for television/internet so my router is right behind my television.

        • Yup, have a big enclosed entertainment center under my wall mounted TV, with my router inside it, and my game consoles, NAS, and TV all wired to my router. Anything that’s not portable is wired in my house. I have my cables all tucked inside the entertainment center and ran behind my wall to my TV, so there’s no visible cables.

  • i am so torn on this. i love my ChromeCast and unless i wanted to do some gaming, will this provide any advantage?

    • that’s because
      1. you have a chromecast
      2. you like casting from your Android device

      The reason is simple. this is for people who would like an interface to interact with.
      Also play Games(PS4/xbox replacement), use Android Apps on TV

      • I understand what you’re saying, but I just see this as a very small target market, and as a technology that will easily be integrated into TV/Phones/Chromecast in the near future.

        • The problem with apps on your SmartTV I think, is the reliance on the TV manufacturer to provide updates to these apps, right?
          Maybe it’s not a big deal with your new LG, Sony or Samsung TV, but a Vizio, Westinghouse, or some other off-brand… Is there a PlayStore integration where the updates come directly from the developer? Is your TV supported with this app? That is probably the future but for now, at 99 bucks, I’ll give this a shot. I’ve spent more than that on drinks after work.

        • See Roku & Apple TV.

          Might not be a smartphone sized market, but there are millions of units to be sold.

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