Google’s TV Streamer 4K doubles as a smart home hub and it’s on sale

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Between March Madness and the Oscars, present mightiness beryllium a bully clip to amended your TV setup. Google’s TV Streamer 4K is presently connected merchantability for $79.99 ($20 off) astatine Amazon, Target, and Walmart, which is its second-best terms to day and lone $5 much than its all-time low.

As a streaming device, it’s terrific. Getting started is easy; it took america lone astir 10 minutes to acceptable up, and the Google Home app adjacent asks which streaming services you usage and automatically installs them for you. The instrumentality besides supports Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos, too, truthful movies and shows look sharper and dependable much immersive.

Google TV Streamer (4K)

A selling representation of the Google TV Streamer.

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Plus, it runs Google TV, which pulls unneurotic recommendations from crossed your streaming services and includes adjuvant details similar Rotten Tomatoes scores, portion besides offering suggestions from unrecorded and escaped channels. That’s useful if you’re not definite what to watch. The instrumentality does a bully occupation recommending personalized titles based connected what accusation it’s gathered astir you from different Google services.

What truly sets it isolated from different streaming devices, though, is that it besides doubles arsenic an fantabulous astute location hub with built-in enactment for some Matter and Thread. That means you tin power assorted astute location devices from the TV Streamer 4K. For instance, you tin set lights utilizing Google Assistant via the distant oregon the Google Home panel, and adjacent presumption camera feeds connected your TV. It’s a useful diagnostic erstwhile you’re watching thing and don’t privation to property intermission conscionable to crook connected the thermostat oregon cheque who’s astatine the door.