Best Google Networked Media Players

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Had a Google Hub Max for 3 years. Was mediocre at best, good for digital photo frame and turning lights on and off. Connecting to Google Home… Read more

initially worked, and then I added a second smart tv to it, and it totally trash the bed misunderstanding commands and simply doing something unrelated to the command given. Recently, it lost network connection and can no longer connect. Google's online help is perhaps a contradiction, and less than useless, wasting alot of time following procedures that fail, such as simply connecting the device back to Google Home and my home network after a factory reset. DO NOT BUY THIS PRODUCT, because you won't know when it will simply stop working and you'll have next to no support for it. I will never buy another google product ever again.

Google Home / Google Nest are, without exaggeration, the most unreliable consumer electronics I have encountered. I own at least six different Google… Read more

Home and Nest devices, and when they actually function, it is close to miraculous. Voice recognition is inconsistent, device routing is chaotic, and the system behaves unpredictably. One moment a command triggers on a particular speaker or display, the next moment a completely different unit responds (or fails to respond at all). Switching between devices is erratic, and half the time the system simply refuses to connect or execute basic tasks. Google Home has already been discontinued, and the Google Nest Hub is not an improvement. Based on the direction of the product line, I would not be surprised if Nest is discontinued sooner rather than later. On top of this, the devices are data-harvesting machines that depend on faulty updates, often rendering them temporarily or permanently useless. I have spent serious money on equipment that is now essentially worthless and unwanted on the second-hand market. Google’s priority is not the customer; it is the monetisation of user data for advertising. Reliability and support are afterthoughts. My advice: avoid Google Home and Google Nest products entirely. They are outdated, unreliable, intrusive, and a poor investment.

My Amazon Fire TV stick abruptly died the other day. As I have had ongoing Wi-Fi issues I decided to use ethernet this time around which this device… Read more

provides for. I have no idea I would have any other issues with setting it up. The unit is considerably more cumbersome than the Amazon Fire stick and requires you to provide an HDMI cable to connect it which was a surprise. It was very difficult to configure but I finally got the apps sit up. I then tried to use the remote to switch the TV off. It would only switch the Google device off. It also wouldn't control volume. I have cheap ACL brand TV which Gemini now tells me it simply cannot do anything with. Absolutely woeful and I'm not even sure I can get a refund after all of this.