there has been an absolute explosion of news and information about Google's new
chromecast Ultra that isn't a Chromecast Ultra now today I'm going to give you
your first look and my impressions of this new streaming device from Google
hello Automators thanks for tuning in again I'm Brian from automate your life
and today I'm going to take the frustration out of automation by keeping
you ahead of the curve therefore making sure you're purchasing the right
streaming devices for your home because we have something that is coming forward
from Google and I believe it is going to be very soon that they release this
product now unfortunately I do not have the product in my hand I have not been
given the product and Google will not comment on this type of content and when
they haven't officially announced anything so we are going off of my
research and other people's research and also just some of the insight I have at
Google in general so let's start with what we know about the device and
honestly when I started to hear details about this device about six to eight
months ago it was last year around October and this device all I heard was
little rumblings about a new upgraded version of Chromecast Ultra coming out
from Google and to be honest that sparked a little bit of concern because
we had two different sets of streaming devices you know this is the Chromecast
Audio which they killed not long ago I believe this is a second-generation
Chromecast and then the Chromecast Ultra and then you have all the Android TV
boxes like the Nvidia Shield that so many people love and we had this
divergence in the streaming capabilities of Google Plus we had all the
complications with the smart display so when I heard about this device I started
to get a little bit concerned and I'm sure there's some angst out there about
hearing about this device today so with that in mind we know that Google has a
pretty big platform divergence or a pretty big platform issue here that they
have to solve now the first component of them solving this
is this new device will be branded Google Nest and my expectation is that
this is just called Google Nest TV it should be in the $80 US range which
would be a bit of an increase over this which usually runs around that $69 or $70
dollars u.s. for the Chromecast Ultra it should operate in both the 2.4 and 5
gigahertz bands and I am expecting very similarly to the Chromecast Ultra the
ability to wire in the device I think that's a very important component of
lots of the things that Google is trying to do with this device although there is
no filing that states that at this point now the dongle itself looks a little bit
different and it looks like it will come in three different colors black white
and what looks to be a funny little paint color which I don't think will
work with many TVs it also will be coming with a remote and this is one of
the different interfaces that you're about to get with this new class of
device from Google and see that's really the biggest difference we know that this
will have a version of Android TV on it and it will have access to the Google
assistant directly within the remote as well as having that remote to control
the entire interface for you now as I show you some of these pictures from
marketing materials these are coming from xda-developers and they have done a
great job unearthing some of this information in this marketing material
now as I look at some of the screens around the interface which are a little
bit old keep this in mind they look to be a very similar interface or have
created a very similar interface to Amazon Fire TV and it also looks
immediately like I can see Netflix and Disney Plus content and of course
YouTube content is going to be on this device now I expect a number of other
services and music services as well as the inclusion as we recently saw things
like Nvidia Shield being included in media setups or multi
room media groups all of that should be ready by the time that this launches and
you should have a full streaming device both audio video and I'm gonna say this
but take it with a grain of salt I think Google is about to give you the home
theater setup that would mirror what Amazon and Apple have done the other
thing that's on these screens is that interface with the Google Assistant and
when you look at the remote they have a specific button for the Google Assistant
which mirrors very closely to what we've seen with the Stadia controllers having
their own Google Assistant button and the interface for that actually looks
very interesting to me it looks like you can look up different things and of
course you're going to be able to search the content library that you have on
this device and I think with some accuracy get results out of it now the
remote itself is a little bit of an interesting device and there's a couple
of reasons for that the filing was done about three months ago now and this is
actually a secondary filing of that same device that was based on a design from
the company before so they weren't necessarily just designing this for
Google but they have since essentially sold the product to Google this remote is
very skinny and the one that the company initially created had a keyboard I don't
expect to see the keyboard even though you're seeing those pictures I don't
expect to see that keyboard here I expect it to be a very clean backing
there are two batteries in it and I'm expecting it to be a Bluetooth control
interface but that is actually not in the filing I cannot find a specific
thing that says this is definitely bluetooth so it actually could be a
Wi-Fi device and that would be a very interesting choice by Google. Now
that's it for the facts that we have sadly there's not a ton here to go on
just yet even though I believe we are within one to two months of this device
launch, now I don't think it's going to be
showing up next week because Google has not told me they've not sent me one I don't
think it's coming that soon so we're a little bit out before this gets launched
and when it does what I believe is happening to the lineup is probably one
of the things that's the most important - you see the Chromecast Ultra I believe
this is the end of this device I think it will continue to work for a couple of
years but this is the end of that now the Chromecast themselves are they
have Bluetooth and they're $35 so the version 3 of that I believe will be just
rebranded to Google Nest and probably called Cast and then they will continue
to sell that version now with it having Bluetooth if that remote which I think
it will be Bluetooth if it is Bluetooth then you can actually use that to pair
and then do some minor control with that so I could see that option being opened
up but really just a rebranding of the third version and an elimination of the
Chromecast Ultra as a device as this new Google Nest TV takes over at the top of
their streaming lineup when we talk about the Android TV devices it's going
to get a little more interesting because all of those are actually by third
parties and I'm not sure that we're going to call this new operating system
Android TV anymore I believe it's going to be called Google TV or Google Nest TV
and that's the new operating system I don't think it's Android TV and to be
honest it doesn't look a lot like the other Android TV boxes in terms of its
interface so I believe your Android TV boxes their lifeline or lifetime is
shortening at this point they're not extending and so I would really hold off
here until we see what comes out from Google because I think that new
operating system is going to leave Android TV in the dust and let's be
honest we haven't seen a lot of upgrades to the
Android TV operating system in a lot of inclusion in things that we would have
expected from a device that was going to last the next an operating system rather
that was going to last the next five to ten years out in the wild we talked a
little bit about the streaming services that were available but this is a major
push for YouTube TV and to be honest as a YouTube creator I'd be happy for the
extra views but this is more centered around YouTube specifically in their TV
service so I think we're going to see a major push from Google with their own
branded TV service that's available in the US right now as well as a great
reorganization or they had better do a great reorganization of how people
access YouTube it better not just be the app that they have on fire TV sticks and
on all other you know Roku streamers and Apple and etc etc it better not be that
same application it has to be better than that to organize the content and
give people the ability to find the right content that they want from a
creator like me so both YouTube and YouTube TV I think will be a focal point
of this device because of how important those services are in terms of that
interface that we see on these pictures well I'm hoping it comes in a little
closer to smart displays when we start to enter into things like the Google
assistant and we start to look at some of the home control which I would expect
to be available on a device like this now if they do that and this is why I
say I expect it to happen they will be able to bring those two up together
instead of them having to develop under two separate platforms I don't think
they're going to be exactly the same but I would expect a lot of the look and
feel to be the same in-home control now with how engaged in the Google and
Google Nest ecosystem our viewers are I'm betting there's a lot more questions
out there right now go ahead leave down below guys and if you are someone
who's just watching one of our videos for the first time then you probably
want to check out our Google home or Google Nest updates and new features
videos where we show you how to use all of the latest features with all of these
different products within your smart home to get the most out of them and do
the most with them so thank you everyone for watching and of course don't hate
automate