All Articles by Andrew Martonik

Move to UHD

These are the best 4K TVs for your Chromecast Ultra

Andrew Martonik 2 weeks ago

Getting your 4K content on a TV is easy with a Chromecast Ultra, but the TV you plug it into is extremely important.

Talk to TV

Google Assistant can now control DISH Hopper TV receivers

Andrew Martonik 9 months ago

You can now simply talk to Google Assistant to control your DISH Hopper TV receiver, cutting down on the number of times you have to use (or find) the remote or deal with moving through on-screen menus.

For devs

Google's mystery HDMI dongle is actually the ADT-2 Android TV developer kit

Andrew Martonik 11 months ago

That mystery Google-branded HDMI dongle we saw pass through the FCC about a month ago turns out to not be a consumer device, but instead developer-only hardware aptly named "ADT-2."

New shape

JBL Link Bar soundbar does triple duty with Android TV and Google Assistant

Andrew Martonik 11 months ago

We speculated that Google would have Android TV announcements at I/O 2018, and here's the first of the bunch: a new partnership with JBL to launch a soundbar that pulls triple duty as an Android TV device and Google Assistant speaker.