There are some glaring omissions from the Nexus Player package. Out of the box, the Nexus Player is solid.īut “solid” isn’t the same thing as “great,” and great it ain’t. It also bundles the functionality of a Chromecast, meaning Android device owners can stream their device’s displays and photo collections, not to mention Android media apps that have yet to make their way to the Android TV OS. It offers nearly all the same apps and channels – Hulu Plus, Netflix, YouTube, and all of Google Play’s media offerings. Priced at $99, just like Apple TV, the Nexus Player is in many ways Google’s direct answer to its competition’s long-lived media streamer. Only, that’s just not the case right now. Finally, everything Apple could do, we could do better. That announcement seemed to finally give Android fans the full-featured set-top box they’d been waiting for. We’d heard rumblings of a set-top box coming from Google that would run its new TV-optimized operating system, Android TV, but no one was paying close enough attention to really think we’d see the device announced alongside the Nexus 6 and Nexus 9.
When Google announced the new Asus-made Nexus Player in October, it took a lot of us in the tech news world by surprise.
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