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Reading that Google is reducing Ram’s needs to send Google TV. I can already see in a flood of 1 star reviews for TV that are not yet launched: “Horrible performance,” “Ligi interface,” “Don’t buy.”
Google has not explained the least, but Android TV has left its need for only 1GB, it is likely that the upcoming budget is also a target of Google TV. And that’s not good.
If there is a thing that does not need smart TV at all, this is the worst sunglasses – especially the lower ram. Many budget TV and streaming sticks are already struggling with performance, and there may be a difference between Ram smooth UI and interval fest. This is not ideological argument. I have raised it.
I have tried to love Google’s TV products, but the budget experience is so bad.
My first run with Google’s platform was the 2020 chromcet with Google TV, apparently just $ 50 bargaining. It only sent 8GB of storage (only 4.4GB usable), 2GB of RAM, and a minor immunologist with S905x3 chip. The UI was quite smooth, but heavy apps like Cody felt slow, and trying to air through numerous streaming services was a struggle. The experience was fine, but hardly fantastic, and the lack of storage made it itching to dig.
Do you have a performance problem on your cheap Google TV device?
181 votes
Yes, all the time
46 %
Repeated now
19 %
No, I don’t
8 %
I don’t have a cheap tool for Google TV
27 %
Ryan Hans / Android Authority
My second attempt was a budget awareness in a TCL 4K QLED. There is no OLED spiral here – just something cheap and considered to be good enough for a weird comfort show. With a quad-core cortex-A 55 CPU like the more spacious 12GB of storage, 2GB Ram, and my old Dongle, I thought it would be at least match my chromcoat. Even better, this came with the old stripped back Android TV interface, which I hoped to run more easily.
But then the terrible update came. Apparently overnight, my TV was turned into a slow dirt, which was re -nominated with Google TV’s flowering UI, which was complete with kitty dynamic images and interference advertising – everything I expected to avoid more basic interfaces. The worse thing is that once the smooth UI turned towards the scrolling stars, the apps hung on the launch, and the casting became a bad, delayed mess.
The shift was astonishing – one day smooth, the next day on unusable. There is no rollback. Certainly, I paid very little, but I still feel that I barely fight the active UI now. Based on my experience, 2GB is minimal for Google TV, but Google is reducing needs. No, thank you.
C Scott Brown / Android Authority
So, I am zero that “Kim Ram” TV will have a long -term benefit. Especially since Google intends to fill the platform with more advertising and blot, which will only reduce it. Although more consumer palms seem to have smart TV capabilities on paper, one of the most crossed experience will be forced to reach other platforms when it is time to upgrade.
Ram is certainly just one part of the picture. UI intervals and slow loading times are the same mistakes of cheap CPUs that are in the circle of budget TV. But too much Ram ensures that apps can stay in memory between use, which accelerates loads back and forth without the load times and UI stalls. Just a beloved Nvidia Shield TV: 2GB or 3GB RAM (depending on the model) and a Snetha Tigra X1 still make one of the best actors in the place – this is the level that every Google TV should wish.
Poor performance will shut down Google TV to users in a long time.
Not every TV needs to be a powerhouse, but here is a minimum spike line that should not be crossed – and reducing Ram’s needs pushes us well under it. Google’s move has invited manufacturers to cut further corners, and the result can be predicted: slow, disappointing devices that leave the fruitful taste for the entire platform.
If Google wants to compete in the room, it needs to enforce the minimum standards, do not reduce them. Until then, be careful with smart TV with bargaining sugars. Or better, forget the built -in OS and invest in solid Android TV box.
