Google TV

Google TV pulls together streaming services, live TV and rentals into one viewing hub, which is useful for anyone trying to keep too many screens in one place. By our assessment, its best feature is the way it organises search and recommendations across services, so a person can move from title to title without reopening every app. The weak spot is dependence on the ecosystem around it: the experience is strongest when the streaming services and live sources it supports are the ones a person actually uses. In practice it feels less like a channel list and more like a control layer over other video apps. That places Google TV above a simple launcher and below the services it aggregates, because it does not create the content itself. It suits people who want one front door for TV watching, while people who only use a single service may find the extra layer unnecessary.