Ahh, version numbering and the perception the public has from it
Yeah I know, it's not a good way to measure progress at all. And yeah, I know there's stuff going on behind the scenes, but that's where they are, out of sight. So all I care about are the user-facing improvements that provide tangible benefits to me. In that regard things have certainly slowed recently, IMO. Hell, the #1 feature Google unveiled at IO that had me excited was notification syncing. I can't believe it took them until now to implement that.
Of course, I'm sure it's got inadequate CPU for doing the transcoding, thus the need for the $130 TiVo Stream.
That's what my guess would be. I agree, though, it should be something the box can do on its own. I'd guess that the Series 5 will have that built in.
Here's a dream: maybe someday, if/when my circa 2009 receiver dies, there will be a new receiver on the market that has GoogleTV built in. GoogleTV boxes already do some amount of HDMI switching, so why not evolve them into full-blown proper receivers? At that point, they'd have both built-in support for all the GoogleTV goodness, and would be far more seamless with external contraptions like the Chromecast dongle.
Personally, I'd prefer to have less stuff built into things. I want my TV to be a dumb monitor, I want my receiver to take inputs and route the audio and video properly, and then I want to plug components into the receiver that are easily replaceable in 2-4 years when a better version comes out. This is why I hate all-in-one computers. Sadly this isn't the way things are moving...
I ordered a Chromecast. It's hard to say no when the cost after factoring in the three free months of Netflix is in fast food value meal territory.
Yeah, I can't believe they're throwing that Netflix subscription in. And that includes existing members, doesn't it? In that case, it makes the Chromecast $11! That's just ridiculous.
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