Benefits to using CCwGTV on an already-existing Android TV?

by slinky317

I have two Sony Bravias that run Android TV, but I'm not always happy with them. Their performance is not great and they lag behind in updates.

I'm debating getting the new Chromecast to use on these TVs, but it feels a bit redundant. I guess my biggest question is how would I prevent there being two cast targets for devices? I would only want it to cast to the Google TV. Also I've read that the new Chromecast doesn't fully support things like Dolby Vision in all apps.

Has anyone done this? What results are have you seen?

triplebeamz

Imho,. Getting an external Android TV box is always the better way to go. You're probably going to want to upgrade your box several times throughout the lifespan of any typical TV.. some users upgrade yearly,. It would be so costly to do this with a TV itself.

Scarlet_FX

Just disable networking on your Bravias and it will hide it from your network devices.

Confident-Effort-103

Always always is better get an AndroidTV device… all tv have a cheap hardware to run Android.. You only need to know if your often app support Dolby Vision

boq

That's what I did. My Philips ATV from 2017 doesn't get any more updates and had so many bugs and was so slow. Now it's just a screen without network access.

asng

I have an Android TV (Philips 2019) and stopped using it when GCwGTV came out. It's just so much faster and more responsive.

The TV doesn't have internet access and everything is disabled. I basically factory reset it and skipped through the setup so it's got nothing setup.