I was lucky enough to snag what seems to be the only available Chromecast with Google TV that was available in my entire area yesterday. In my short time with it, I have found the list of streaming services that the new Google TV can actually suggest from and deeplink with to be a bit misleading (or at least not fully operational yet) The list on the new website suggests that streaming services like Peacock and EPIXNow would be supported as being able to suggest titles from and include them in the "continue watching" list. Those don't actually appear to be supported services. Further, the device itself has a setting showing that Showtime is a linkable service, yet it very clearly it's not. (I searched for "The Comey Rule" for example) Titles that are available for me within the Showtime app do show up in the Assistant search, but they do not allow one to play from within the listing (as would be available for other services) so despite my Showtime account being "linked" the device doesn't seem to care. (I find this particular inconsistency even more ironic considering Showtime is the service that seemed to be the most aggressive in showing up in my "play next" line on regular Android TV)
From what I can tell after a few hours of heavy use, the streaming services that DO actually show up and deeplink with the new Google TV are: **Netflix **Hulu **YouTube TV (This works especially well with shows that are saved to ones "DVR" within YouTubeTV -- no commercials -- but they have surprisingly good VOD mivie coverage without commercials also. I was impressed. But it should be noted that several of the suggestions I got from YouTube TV ended up being VOD shows that stuck me with commercials too ) **Disney+ **HBOMax **STARZ **Amazon (no differentiation between videos included with Prime vs those that must be purchased vs those only available within a Prime "Channel" like PBS or Sundance though... So it's not as helpful when you see a show is available and open it only to discover you still need to pay for it) **Sling TV **Google TV (what I suppose would have been Play Movies yesterday) **CBS All Access
I'm not sure what we are calling these apps that are supported. But those are the ones that work consistently.
I've read some places that Google is going to be "adding more" but I've not seen that anywhere other than here in threads. Has there been actual word from Google saying they are continuing to add? Do we know the list of services that they specifically have in the pipeline?
Which services do you feel you'd want to see added next?
I've read they were working with Sling to add the Live API to their app.