Google introduced a brand new Chromecast with HD streaming help immediately that prices simply $30 and has a distant management with it. The firm is launching the Chromecast with Google TV (HD) — sure, that’s the official title — in 19 international locations together with the U.S.

This comes two years after Google launched a $49 Chromecast with 4K HDR streaming help and the introduction of a distant. The new Chromecast helps 1080p streaming.

The new Chromecast helps greater than 10,000 apps which are on the Google TV platform together with Netflix, HBO Max, Disney+, and Prime video. What’s extra, Google has improved help for reside TV over time.

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The distant is much like what was shipped with the 2020 Chromecast. It has the form of 1 half of a scorching canine bun with a navigation circle on prime with buttons for Back, Home, Mute, Power, TV Input, and Google Assistant; quantity controls are situated on the facet. The distant additionally has a devoted button to launch YouTube and Netflix. Users can press and maintain the YouTube button to reassign it to open YouTube TV, YouTube Music, or YouTube youngsters.

Google Assistant on the distant helps you to seek for reveals, motion pictures, and movies together with offering voice controls in your sensible dwelling home equipment. So you may management your thermostat, activate/off your lights, and even stream your Nest safety digital camera feed on to the TV.

The new Chromecast comes with all Google TV goodies together with profiles for various customers, a content material urged tab known as ‘For You,’ the Library tab in your purchases and leases from Google, and a Watchlist that could possibly be synced throughout units. Back in May, the corporate added casting capabilities to the Google TV app and added that the Android TV ecosystem had grown previous the 110 million units mark.

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Since it’s a Chromecast, customers will be capable to group Nest audio system and play music in numerous rooms immediately by means of their TV or cellphone.

While Google is parading round the truth that the brand new Chromecast is cheaper than the first-gen $35 gadget it launched in 2012, the corporate is updating the price range model after 4 years. During that point, each Amazon and Roku have launched $30 HD streaming sticks, so the search large is late to the occasion.

The Chromecast with Google TV (HD) is accessible in “Snow” colour beginning immediately. Buyers within the U.S. will get six months of Peacock Premium — which supplies entry to unique reveals, WWE, and reside sports activities — with this new gadget. In July, throughout its quarterly earnings name, Peacock mentioned that its paid subscribers remained flat at 13 million. So this is perhaps one of many ploys to develop that quantity.