An Android TV box has the ability to transform any TV into a smart TV, giving users access to television shows, live sports, and movies as well as a multitude of applications and games. The multimedia device can also play music and offers a Web browser for access to the Internet. In order to utilize the benefits of an Android TV box, it is important to understand how to work the device properly.
Set Up Wi-Fi
In order to use the Android TV box, the device must have access to an open Internet connection. Most Android TV boxes have the ability to connect to the Internet using a Wi-Fi or wired Ethernet connection. Using a Wi-Fi connection requires a Wi-Fi router and active Internet service. To connect to the Internet using a Wi-Fi connection, click on the settings icon, and select Wi-Fi from the menu options. After selecting the Wi-Fi menu option, choose the desired router. After entering the correct password, look for the Wi-Fi symbol to appear in the bottom-right corner of the screen.
Get Familiar With XBMC
The XBMC interface is a media center that allows you to select a desired type of media. XBMC features a home screen that offers movies, TV shows, add-ons, settings, and other custom options. You must be familiar with how the XBMC functions in order to use the TV box properly. Making a selection on the XBMC screen requires using the remote control to select music, games, and other types of media. The XBMC is customizable using different skins, and requires some basic knowledge to navigate easily.
Use a Wireless Keyboard
Using a wireless keyboard instead of the remote control adds convenience to the browsing experience. The wireless keyboard makes entering text and searching for media on the TV box easier. Most wireless keyboards include a touchpad mouse, which removes the need to scroll through text to make a desired selection.
Access the Google Play Store
The Google Play Store provides applications, streaming services, and games for the Android TV box. As of 2015, TV brands such as Sharp and Sony are combining Android TV with their smart TV models. These smart TVs have access to the Google Play Store and Android TV from various sources that include TV tuners and HDMI receivers. Using the Google Play Store improves the Android TV experience.
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What is Android TV?
Simply put, Android TV is designed to bring the sorts of things you enjoy on your phone to your TV. That doesn't mean you'll be taking calls through your TV or trawling through emails, but it's about ease of navigation, access to entertainment and simple interactivity. It's about making your TV smart and doing it with an interface that's recognisable and easy to use.
It offers voice controls and gives you control across other devices, like your Android phone and Android Wear watch. The card-based interface behaves in a familiar way, making it easier to do the things you want to do without a convoluted menu system. Essential entertainment apps are available, and there's the opportunity for Android's app developers to adapt apps for the big screen experience. That can be anything from information services like weather, through to gaming. Android TV lets you quickly customise your TV's content to suit you.
For a TV manufacturer it presents a distinct advantage: why design your own smart TV platform, when Google has already done it? Why develop your own apps, when the community will be developing for Android TV? Why have your own app store when Android TV offers Google Play? For Google, it offers a distinct advantage too: it puts Android on the big screen in your house, and it provides another avenue to serve you its content.
How does Android TV work?
Discovery
Android TV is simple to learn and use. When you fire up your television or set-top box, you'll see the main screen/home screen. It is filled with a vertical stream of rows, and you navigate through each row from left to right. The top row is the Content Discovery bar, which highlights suggested content from popular apps you use. You may see tutorials on YouTube or The Walking Dead from Google Play TV and Movies.
Voice search
Backing up a bit, right at the top of the interface you'll see the search utility. Android TV supports voice commands, as long as you have the necessary hardware that'll allow Android TV to hear you. In fact, the entire interface is based around voice-activated searching, which you can use through the one-click remotes, like Sony's One-Flick remote with a built-in mic. Simply click on it to start your search.
Supported voice commands include simply stating a video game title...or more complex searches like "All the Oscar-winning movies from 1989". When you speak a search, Android TV will not only show you all related results in Google Play but also results from Netflix, Hulu, etc. When sifting through results, you'll notice handy cards below. They contain informational bits like who's who in the movie you're about to watch, other popular titles from the video game developer you're browsing, YouTube clips featuring the actor you're looking at, etc.
Google Assistant
While making an announcement at CES 2017 in January, Google confirmed Google Assistant is coming to Android TV-compatible televisions and set-top boxes. Pending a forthcoming software update, it will enable the £190 new Nvidia Shield TV to be controlled almost entirely by voice, and Samsung SmartThings support will add the ability to control smart devices around the house. It will effectively turn your Shield into a Google Home or Amazon Echo, albeit one that plays media through a TV rather than speaker and has the ability to bring up on-screen results.
We've seen it work with a Nest thermostat, coffee maker and lighting in an early demo, so it's an excellent addition when it comes. Nvidia chose to use the game controller as the mic, however, so you do need to leave it lying around within earshot. Nvidia told us that was necessary. Putting the mic in the Shield TV box meant that it would have to be proudly displayed instead.
What is Google Assistant, how does it work, and when can you use it?
Apps and content
Now, back to the vertical rows on the home screen. The second row is a list of featured apps, like Netflix, Amazon Instant Video, BBC iPlayer, etc. On select TVs and devices, you may also see the manufacturer's apps. On Sony TVs, for instance, you will get Sony Select, a portal to a selection of apps that you can also access in the Google Play Store on Android TV. Confusing, we know.
You'll also see a vertical row for TV inputs, like HDMI 1 and HDMI 2, allowing you to easily control and switch between inputs, while the vertical row below that showcases apps you've downloaded or have available on your device, like the Google Play Store, Music, Album, Movies and TV Google Play, etc. Click on any of these apps in order to browse and find more content.
When can you use Android TV Box?
Android TV launched in October 2014 via the Nexus Player (Google and Asus' $99 set-top box that connected to a television), but several other companies -- including Sony, Philips, and Sharp -- later unveiled new smart TVs running Android TV at CES in January 2015. Since then, some of those manufacturers have scaled back. Still, there are new Android TV-compatible products you can buy now.
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