Home LivingSmart HomeGoogle TV is getting a big audio upgrade – and better smart home features, tooNest Audio support is imminent and Google has big plans for much better smart home integrationWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
Home LivingSmart HomeGoogle TV is getting a big audio upgrade – and better smart home features, tooNest Audio support is imminent and Google has big plans for much better smart home integrationWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
Nest Audio support is imminent and Google has big plans for much better smart home integration
When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
(Image credit: Google)
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Chromecast with Google TVupgrades just keep on coming. Just days after we discovered thatGoogle’s smart TV platform is getting50 free-to-view TV channels, another upgrade has been announced. And if you haven’t shelled out on one of thebest soundbarsfor your TV, it could make a big difference: even thebest TVshave fairly shonky sound quality, and the incoming Nest Audio support will enable you to use Nest Audio as part of a home theatre sound system. You won’t be limited to Google hardware either: the audio features will also work with some third party speakers.
Google accidentally leaked the Nest Audio feature back in 2020 and then confirmed it to the Wall Street Journal a few days later, but it’s taken nearly two years for the actual streaming to arrive. According toProtocol, the Nest Audio support is coming before the end of this year – and that’s not all. Google has big plans for its Google TV platform.
Chromecast, FitBit and better smart home features are coming to Google TV very soon
According to Protocol, at a closed-door event for key partners Google went into great detail about its plans for the Google TV platform. It wants the TV to be the central point of yoursmart home, with your speakers, security devices and even yourFitBitall connecting to your living room hub. That meansApple Watch-style integration between the fitness app and Fitbits so you can have interactive video workouts at home, picture-in-picture monitoring ofsmart security devicesso you can be alerted of unexpected visitors, better video chatting and more.
Not all of the new features are imminent. We’ll see the Nest Audio support roll out in the next few months, and possibly fast pairing with Pixel Buds too. But the other features need hardware firms to get on board with Google’s “better together” plans. Google wants them to embrace Bluetooth 5.0 or later, and to have 16GB of memory in smart TVs runningAndroid13. That’s twice the memory of the current Chromecast with Google TV, which suggests an updated version of that is coming too.
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