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Google's latest play for the living room is the company's best yet… until you consider the Nexus Player's $99 price tag. That makes it about 3 times as expensive as a Google Chromecast, although it can certainly do a lot more than a Chromecast. Just l...
Responsive performance, Some great apps and games available, Smar, user-friendly interface
Limited app selection, Can't customize navigation, Hit-or-miss casting and mirroring features
The Google Nexus Player performs well and delivers a good combination of content and games, but it needs more apps. The set-top boxes, streaming sticks and game consoles on the market today are all about compromises. You can get more than a tho...
Published: 2014-11-03, Author: David , review by: theverge.com
Pretty, intuitive interface, Voice search can be really powerful, It's a Chromecast
Not nearly enough apps or games yet, Best features only work with Google apps for now, Some quirky software bugs
More times than not, the Verge score is based on the average of the subscores below. However, since this is a non-weighted average, we reserve the right to tweak the overall score if we feel it doesn't reflect our overall assessment and price of the produ...
Attractive aesthetics all around, Great gaming controller and remote, Googlecast integration is a big plus
Connections drop often (wifi, controllers, etc), Limited storage space, Limited games and apps, Software experience just doesn't feel fully polished just yet
5.0 The Nexus Player, and Android TV platform in general, have tons of potential and we're really excited to see where Google takes it. Unfortunately, we just aren't there yet, between a limited library and software quirks, I find myself going back to Chr...
Published: 2014-11-03, Author: Chris , review by: slashgear.com
Android TV is ambitious, certainly, but it's also flawed in a number of ways. It's too early for the voice search to be genuinely useful unless you buy your content solely from Google Play, and beyond it the basics of navigation can be annoying.Some resul...
Voice search is simple and intuitive, Simple card-based interface, Google Cast gives it Chromecast-like features
Limited storage, Search results are limited to Google-related content sources, Buggy software, Chintzy remote, No Ethernet port
The Nexus Player is a great, if imperfect, introductory showcase for Android TV. It doesn't have an Ethernet port and suffers from a few bugs, but Android TV's simple interface, intelligent voice search and Google Cast abilities more than make up for it....
Abstract: When Google announced last month that it would bring a $99 streaming-media Nexus Player to the market, it invited a one-word response: Why?Google's past ventures into TV-connected appliances have not fared well. It launched Google TV back in 2010, but tha...
It's the first Android TV player. That might not make it great, but I'm pretty glad it exists – it can only get better from here. It's about time we have the full Google Play experience on the bigger screen, There's a lot of potential here. I'm going to h
It's still kind of janky. There are a lot of loose ends that need to be tied up here. For example, when the primary screen refreshes, oftentimes the suggested YouTube videos still link to what was previously in that spot. Nothing is more annoying than cli
I'm going to be as blunt as possible here: Android TV simply isn't ready for the consumer market. It's lacking a lot of good content, and what it can provide on the TV front can be done with Chromecast (aside from a dedicated interface). If you want gamin...
While getting the product demo for the Nexus Player I asked, "Do I now throw my Chromecast out?" Nope. This is set to do more than the Chromecast for more $$$. Not to replace it but to add more abilities to it while creating another tier of Google's st...
Published: 2015-04-28, Author: Daniel , review by: ausdroid.net
Nice compact form factor, Dual-band Wi-Fi, Controller is pretty nice
No Ethernet, Limited Storage, Sometimes ‘jittery' playback on Games, Google Casting sometimes gets ‘weird', Hardware
The Nexus Player is a Nexus device, so naturally it's a must buy for me. It's also the first Android TV device on the market and with no details from Sony or Razer on when their SmartTVs or set-top box are expected to arrive on our shores – if an Android ...
