Customer Ratings & Reviews

Great streaming box! Fast response and great picture quality!

The device extremely well for 4.5 months. I turned it on yesterday and it continue to reboot itself. Received an error message indicating a corrupt file was found. Not sure it was corrupted as only Google update have been installed. Weird. Thanks Google for the corrupt update!!

If you like the chrome cast with google tv, you’ll love this. Definitely a step above the chrome cast.

Just as good as previous Chromecast generation, though the remote feels cheaper as it's more plastic like.

Sometimes it blanc out for a brief minutes. Otherwise its useable

The Streamer is only slightly faster than the Google Chromecast 4K that it replaced. The Streamer starts to blackout the screen for about 30 seconds and back on for a short period, then it blackouts again. After restarting the Streamer it will be fine for 3 or 4 days. I have tried adjusting the display settings hasn't worked.

Excellent device! More of a formal entry into streaming devices than the chromecast line

Much faster and stable, the direct ethernet connection is much appreciated.

Hey it's another TV streamer big deal just gave away 5 other one's.

THE BEST GOOGLE STREAMER SO FAR. ITS A MUST BUY!!!!

Has some nice features but deal-breaker is the laughably horrible search functionality. I searched in the "Search movies and television" bar for Vertigo, one of the most famous movies ever made, and the result it came back with was the WebMD definition of vertigo, the medical condition. I'm not kidding. In this day of AI, the fact that it's not smart enough to know that I'm looking for a movie called Vertigo and not a medical term is ridiculous. Returned.

I bought this hoping to get an easy feed from my nest cameras to this and I must say that I am very disappointed. I did not feel like it had much value for its price point plus I feel like there are far better options for half the price

I got this to compare it to my Nvidia Shield TV Pro, and while it is a great product. The Nvidia is far more user friendly, and more powerful. Nvidia is also $100 more expensive. Otherwise this one performed well, HDR and Dolby Vision output looked great too

I have a lot of Google products, and was excited when this came out. I purchased one and within 5 day the audio would drop every 15 seconds or so. Took it back, got a replacement, same thing happened. Software was up to date. But no go. Maybe if they improve it. But not now.

Too buggy keeps getting blue circle. Would not buy again.

Not a big improvement over the last gen model. The UI is still sluggish, especially compared to an Apple TV. Despite being larger, I also don't like the remote as much as last gen.

Not so sure about this streamer although it looks good on videos, it has been a problem trying to watch the live nba league pass games, the video is blurry or freezing up.

I have not used this yet! When I was going to hook up on my TV, there seemed to be a cord missing? Nothing to hook the TV to the streaming devise?? I was going to take ot back toBest Buy but I’ve been laid up with hip problems! If you can let me know if a cord is missing or if it hooks up a different way, would you please let me know? Missing cord or not? I only have one!

I've been waiting months for this device to arrive, and it's a major let down. First thing I do is uninstall ALL streaming apps. Thankfully it allows you to do that. It comes with a bunch pre installed. Next I try to install Plex and... There's no Plex available. You can search in the app store but it's not there. Evidently Plex isn't supported on this device? Wow might be the only media device on the planet without Plex support. Next I try to set up the advertised Ambient Mode so that I can show my curated Google Photos album of my photography work on my giant 4K OLED TV. Note that my other Google Home devices like the Hub already have this feature but the screens on those all are awful so it ruins my photos. I've been looking forward to a device with Google Photos Album Slideshows that I can run on my TV for YEARS. Well guess what, it doesn't work! There's at least three different menus they give you to try to get you to set up Google Photos Ambient Mode and NONE of them show my personal Photography album! The same album in use on my other Google Home devices. It just isn't there! I counted to do a sanity check, I have 16 albums in my Google Photos account and all the menus for Ambient Mode both in the TV Streamer device and in the phone Home app only show like 8-10 of your albums. Conveniently missing my single album I wanted to display. There's endless prompts for it to made it's own dynamically generated album from your phone photos, but that's worthless. I'm a photographer with real photos to display and this device simply cannot display them it seems. I'm honestly speechless. The only two things I needed from this simple device, Plex and my personal photography album, it can't do. This device is literally useless. I don't care enough to return it I'll probably just toss it in the trash. I'm gonna have to hook up my original 2015 model Nvidia Shield TV and use that for the next ten years. Yikes. What a disappointment.

The Google home streamer is the perfect replacement for Chromecast and for any smart TV processor in my opinion. it provides the best of all worlds at a very affordable price for something that will last for years. Pros: - very minimalist look and solid build quality that will mesh seamlessly with any decor or setup. - You can hide it behind the TV with some velcro if you want. - Bigger storage and faster processor than original Chromecast and any smart TV! - Continuous, direct updates from Google who is very good about security patches. you don't have this level of support from smart TV vendors who will have outdated looks 2 years after a TV was purchased. - The ability to have all the apps you want, thanks to Android. so you are not stuck to the smart TV approved apps. - did I mention 32Gigs of storage? this wont run sluggish after a while. - Google assistant with all its Glory, voice commands controls, remote locator. - very nice remote. I preferred the one from chromecast but I understand they needed to stick more things in this one. - The ability to easily pair headsets for private listening is AMAZING. using Bluetooth you can pair any set of bluetooth headsets of any kind as long as it has bluetooth for private listening if you have someone who fell asleep on the couch (Ahem, my wife!). - and the most amazing feature that I have been waiting for is the ability to control Google Home from the TV. this is an amazing feature that is under rated, forget about controlling nest from your TV. how about controlling your security cameras from your own tv! the door bell rings, the camera feed shows up on your TV. in addition to being able to control you Google home connected devices like lights, etc. That was the most important feature that I liked. now I can take my google home hub upstairs to the office and its no longer needed in the living room. - Ethernet port for faster connection. Now the Cons: - no HDMI cable included in the box. - No audio passthrough. those are the only 2 issues I have and they are not deal breakers to be honest. In my opinion this is a worthy device that I will be using for years to come.