I’m kind of surprised that this is the thread that mostly flew under the radar. Android TV actually caught me a bit off guard and I was pleasantly surprised with what it is. First, the UI actually seems really well done. Being google and knowing context helps make the home screen work really well. Granted that I don’t use Google Play Movies, I’m not sure how much use I’d make of the content suggestions (or how accurate they would even be), but maybe it’d give me some inspiration to look up those titles on Netflix :P The second thing that I really liked about this was that google search is first class. Open menu -> “ok google” -> get whatever info you wanted. I could see myself using this all the time for when I think I recognize an actor from a different movie. Or even to get world cup group stats right on my TV! Third is casting. I like the idea of a chromecast, but I don’t know if I’d go out of my way to get one. If it’s part of my TV, though, I’d use that. One thing I didn’t mention in the original post is that Android TV does not need and Android phone. In the keynote, he controlled it with that beautiful red nexus 5 (:heart_eyes:), but he did mention that it needs “just a dpad and voice input”. I’d expect the TVs to come with these simple remotes. Definitely going to be considering one of these next time I’m looking for a TV (which probably won’t be for a few years)

It’s like cars that support onstar or services like that. The car has to have support for it, but I don’t expect having support to be a luxury service. The reason to do this over mounting your phone is that the UI is designed for the car. Things that you actually use in the car are up front. Interaction is also intended to be hands free as much as you’re willing to use voice commands. I don’t really see this as a big selling point for the cars, but if the car I as buying had it, I’d be happy with it.

I guess when you lift it up to your face, it ups the brightness, so maybe? LG said you can get up to 36 hours idle out of the gwatch. That’s 36 hours with the screen always on (probably at 30-40% brightness)

In the keynote I think it kept going. That might change by the time of release.