I much prefer the cleaner layout on Roku.
Look, I know that some people really love seeing cross-app content in this way, but I find it too cluttered and overwhelming. Scrolling down further gives you Popular Movies and Shows, Dramas, another Peacock ad and Recommend YouTube Videos. Below that is a row filled with Top Picks for You, followed by all my downloaded apps.
#CHROMECAST TV STICK MOVIE#
The top of the homescreen is filled with five rotating slots of various show or movie suggestions, mixed with an ad for NBC's Peacock service. Google TV is cluttered and has questionable search capabilitiesĪside from its inability to stream in 4K HDR, the only thing holding this device back ever-so-slightly is the Google TV platform itself. I moved easily between apps and browsed the home screen with hardly any lag. Navigating around the platform is also fairly zippy. HBO Max took a little longer to load, at around 5 seconds. Netflix loads from the home screen in a second, as does Hulu. The Chromecast with Google HD fixes this problem by letting me use just one, small, easy-to-read remote.īut it's also fast. I absolutely loathe having to use more than one remote at a time - it's cumbersome and I always find myself grabbing the wrong one. I can't tell you how much of a game-changer this is for me. Not only did it work seamlessly to control my 2020 Samsung TV's power, volume and inputs, but it also comes with a button to access the Google Assistant. It offers Alexa support, so you can use your voice to control the TV, but it still lacks physical volume, mute and power buttons.īy offering the same remote as the Chromecast with Google 4K, the HD model brings a whole different level of functionality to its inexpensive streaming device. This means that you need both the original TV remote and the Roku remote to use that device. For example, the remote that comes with Roku's entry-level streamer, the Roku Express, lacks voice control or the ability to adjust the volume, never mind being able to turn the TV on or off. Many entry-level streaming devices skimp on hardware features in order to sell their players at a lower price.
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