Google Chromecast with Google TV

It is a nice device, works ok when it is working and is really reasonable priced... BUT, I highly recommend searching for "chromecast tv hdmi signal dropout" before buying this device.

It is only compatible with about 50% of TVs in the market and just cuts out randomly all the time and Google support just blame your TV and cant help.

I contacted Google support and they said that it is the product design - it is only designed to work with newer TVs with the latest HDMI specs. So all old TVs are basically redundant.

Apple Figured out how to be compatible with 99% of TVs
Vodafone Figured out how to be compatible with 99% of TVs
Panasonic Figured out how to be compatible with 99% of TVs
Lenovo Figured out how to be compatible with 99% of TVs...

Bought as a gift for a family member in my household. We assumed it would obviously support switching between multiple profiles and improve everyone's experience with the lounge room TV. Alas, this device only supports a single primary user and will only deliver and curate personalised watch lists for that one user. I contacted device support staff through the Google store online where I purchased it from. They said they would email me instructions about profile switching capabilities, but I never heard from them again. It's astounding this fea...

I have netflix, stan, disney plus and Amazon prime subscriptions. With all of these you would think most movies would be free however up to 50% of movies in the library have an addition charge to `rent` the movie. I do not pay the money for all the above subscriptions to then fork out more to see a movie on these services. I will be leaving some of them soon.

I'm using my TV as a computer monitor and decided to get the Google TV to catch-up with any free to air shows I my have missed. All good setting up and lots of info video's online if you need help. Only problem is the input button on the Google remote isn't compatable with any Kogan TV's. So in my case if I wanted to go from HDMI 3 (Google TV) to HDMI 2 (computer), I need to use sources on original TV remote. Then back to Google TV remote for it's menu. I'm sure there's a universal remote code that works somewhere for Kogan TV's but at this time Google Chromecast/TV hasn't got it.

I've got 2 standard Chromecasts, 1 4k Chromecast and a Google TV Chromecast, I also have a Google Nest router with a Google access point and a Google Pixel 4a phone, you'd think that these would all work great together but that's not the case. After spending a couple of hours with their "support" they told me what I already had found out, that the "smart" Google Nest router was putting the Google TV on the 2.4ghz network and all of the other devices on the 5ghz network, this means that I can't control my Google TV with my phone (which is requir...

Google TV is actually ok but Google make it impossible to get warranty. I have called there "24/7" hotline several times but goes straight to message bank saying "we are currently closed, please call back during business hours. It seems like they are having issues with the Australian Government but it is not right to take this out on their customers. This is the risk of having big companies have too much power, they think they are bigger than the law! No more Google products for me thank you.

Aggregation of all of your subscribed services into one simple stream is what we've all been waiting for. Unfortunately, when you start using it you quickly discover that every second or third row is full of Google rentals and items for sale. It's full of this Google spam, and there's no option to disable it. Well, there is, but in true Google style (like their privacy options), if you disable something they don't want you to, they basically lobotomise the service so it's extremely basic and no longer useful; well beyond what should be necessar...