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If you're already part of the Google ecosystem, then you might already know that Google TV is a great way to control your viewing experience. From streaming apps like Netflix, Disney+, and Peacock, to live TV streams and video content shared from other devices, it's darn useful. But how do you plug it into your TV, 4K computer monitor, or video projector? Enter the Infomir MAG555 4K HDR Google TV OTT IPTV Box. Tech expert Dave Taylor unboxes one and walks you through the entire setup process, including how to access content on USB flash drives. It's a bit long so grab a cup of tea before you start watching!
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00:00 Introduction
1:40 Specs and Use Cases
3:05 Unboxing
7:38 Initial Setup
9:42 Learning about Google TV
11:11 Top Movies and Shows
12:40 Voice Search
16:15 More Commentary
19:52 Price and Conclusions
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this is a 4K HDR Google TV box let's
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plug it in and check it
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[Music]
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out Dave Taylor here and if you're like
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me you have TVs and they have built-in
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Smart TV interfaces that might not be
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great enter third party boxes these are
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devices that you plug into your TV and
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you use the device instead
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bypassing all of the often quite out ofd
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TV technology and using it just as a
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display where this is giving you all of
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your streaming channels all of your apps
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all of your other functionality this
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particular unit that I'm looking at
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today is the infomir mag 555 4K HDR
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Google TV Ott ipv box Ott is over the
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top which is referring to boxes that you
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plug in and hook up to televisions and
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ipv is Internet Protocol television
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which means that they support live
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streaming of TV content if you have the
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rights to get to that particular Stream
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So what I'm going to do is I'm going to
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tell you a very little bit about this
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then we're going to actually open it up
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see what's in the box hook it up get it
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all set up and then we'll actually go
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through and see a couple of its
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different features notable is that it
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works with Netflix and Disney plus so
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we'll be looking at both of those a lot
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of boxes don't actually support those
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Netflix in particular is very picky
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about who it will authorize but this
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particular unit is 4K HDR and it also
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can hook up to devices that have 1080p
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720p 576p or I and 480 so all of those
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different resolutions mean you can use
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this on older or smaller or less capable
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televisions or if you have a really
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beautiful 4K TV or 4k monitor you could
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hook this up to a computer for example
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and use this as a completely different
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way to be able to access content audio
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wise it supports AAC and Dolby Digital
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you can put movies on it directly and it
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can play in MKV MPG mov MP3 and OGG
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formats so it's super compati it gives
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you a lot of flexibility it's built
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around an arm cortex A35 quad 64-bit
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chip so this little box has a surprising
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amount of capabilities and processing
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power 2 gig of RAM 16 gbits of MMC
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memory but as far as I understand it's
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actually just an SD card so we should be
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able to put in a bigger one if we want
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Google TV is built on top of Android 12
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has voice control Google Assistant etc
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etc lots of specs I'll come back to that
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but let's open the box and see what's
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inside so right off the bat we see that
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there is
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H instructions that's handy
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and information about the power supply
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unit and then the device itself let's
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pull this out and this is really small
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one of the things that these companies
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are working on is making it as small as
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possible so let's open up the plastic
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and see and this is a pretty typical
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size so this is 4.2 in X 4.2 in by 9/10
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of an inch and one of the things they've
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added to this very Mo most recent unit
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is this sticking out here is a power
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switch and they've done that because
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people want to be able to turn the
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device off and I agree with that if
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you're not using it you might not need
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to have it continue on now real quick
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here's all the different ports on the
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back you can see most importantly is
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that HDMI and ethernet and then there's
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not much else to see here there are
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couple of holes on the bottom that would
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let you mount it on a wall if you want
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to mount it behind your television and
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it will require its own power so let's
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put it here see what else is in the box
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now now I do know that on here it shows
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scan me and that scan me gets to
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information about how to install
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something called Magic Launcher from
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infomir and Magic Launcher works with
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your other ipv providers to give you a
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centralized access point uh it's worth
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checking out you could just look it up
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just look up in the Google Play Store
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infomir Magic Launcher and you can learn
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about it but this
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otherwise piece cardboard
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in the box we have HDMI and it supports
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HDMI
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2.1 which is important with hdcp so it
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is pretty fancy it should be able to
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turn on your television when you turn on
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the box that's what hdcp gives you so
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that's our HDMI cable and let's see we
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also have a power adapter and let's see
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so here's our power adapter and that's
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going to be pretty easy to work with and
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two AAA batteries that go with the
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remote control so I'm going to open this
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up and so it comes with yet another
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remote control it's a pretty
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straightforward one you can see in the
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closeup that it has shortcuts for
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YouTube Netflix Amazon Prime video and
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Disney plus so they are very excited
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about those we'll put the batteries in
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in a second and then the only other
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thing in the box is a tiny little thumb
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drive so I I think this is going to be
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that 16 gig I talked about so maybe
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that's how you get that memory I'm going
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to get rid of the box so there is let's
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see H oh I see on the side there are two
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usba a ports so I can just plug in this
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and of course if I have this and it's 16
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gig then I can just as easily have
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something like this and have it be 256
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gig or even larger and then have an
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enormous amount of content and I really
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like that because you can save lots of
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content for example download content
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from YouTube and then save it onto your
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flash drive put it into this and now
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you're watching it on TV now you could
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use the YouTube app but the YouTube app
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needs internet connectivity if you've
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downloaded it to this you don't need to
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be on the internet which means you could
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use this at your Airbnb or your cabin in
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the woods so let's see what do we have
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to do next so we need to get the
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batteries into the remote and then we
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need to hook the whole thing up to the
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TV so let's get these batteries in and
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that's easy
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enough let's
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see it's amazing decades and decades
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later these we still have the same basic
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design for batteries so that's kind of
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interesting that that hasn't evolved to
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the next level so now our remote's ready
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and it has a tiny light that's flashing
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I'm going to have to hook up the HDMI
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but more importantly I'm going to switch
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things around so you can get a better
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view of what's happening on the screen
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so let's get this thing set up this
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doesn't look promising but remember
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there's that onoff switch so
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let's turn it
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on and looks like we're starting up and
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everything's looking
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promising nice Google TV
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logo am ready to get started with the
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configuration which I'm going to do with
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the remote control so English United
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States United
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States and we can set up with the Google
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home app o that sounds promising I'm
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going to do that instead so let me get
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this set
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up and it is connecting which is
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promising and it's connected
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and what this does is this makes it
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really easy for me to connect to my
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Wi-Fi network and get it hooked up with
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my system which is a real pleasure if
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you have any Google devices like a nest
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thermostat or a protect smoke detector
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then you have Google home you're signed
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in
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and it makes this setup an absolute
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Breeze and the first thing that it has
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to do is a software up update for the TV
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so we'll go ahead and let it do its
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thing and I'll be right back and Well
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that took a little longer than I
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expected but we are back and now I can
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continue and now we're going to set up
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the Google TV so I'm going to fast
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forward pass this
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section we're back and it's noticed that
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I plugged in that flash drive so
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naturally let's see what's on
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it
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[Music]
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and looks like they don't preload much
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of anything so we'll just back
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up get the most out of your Google TV um
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I don't want any of that notice that it
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does support multiple profiles and it
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does support children's profiles so if
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you have kids in the house you can limit
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what they can watch but now here I am on
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Google TV
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and there's live channels so we can just
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jump
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to let's see popular we'll see what
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channels it comes up with is
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popular
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and Life of Brian now that sounds my
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speed let's choose that and see how it
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looks oh that's with Pluto TV all right
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we'll back up and let's see if we can
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find one
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that I don't need to install an app no
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looks like all these are going to be
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involved in installing apps so let's
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just see if we go to free play whether
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we can actually just watch something
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without having to install anything okay
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oh and there's more updates and I can
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update my remote too
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so there's a lot going on here and you
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can hear I'm going to mute it and we're
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going to back away from this because I
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definitely do not have rights to
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rebroadcast Hawaii 5 and this is the
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modern Hawaii 5 not the OG Hawaii 5 but
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I'm going to press the home button on
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the remote and now that gets us down to
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all of these and notice that it shows
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you what channel you would need to be
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able to watch this so this is on Disney
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plus if I select Avatar the way of water
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then it will launch the Disney Plus app
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and I would have to log in but let's
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just choose watch now and see what
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happens okay so we have the Disney logo
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I assume this is as it's starting the
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app up we'll find out
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momentarily and there it is so there's
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the Disney Plus app I don't actually
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have an account so we'll go back with
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the the home button and I do have Plex
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so I have my Plex server and it looks
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like it's already figured it out because
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it's already showing me how far into the
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show or this particular movie I Am which
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is really cool and then this is tub and
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YouTube let's go to
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YouTube and that should be pre-installed
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and it should be pre- logged in because
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I logged into my Google account so I'm
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expecting this to start right out and it
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did how nice is that and it's an ad so
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we'll back away from that um and so here
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I am now on YouTube watching and being
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able to go through channels and while
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we're here let's try out voice search so
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I'm going to do search but I'm going to
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push the microphone button on the remote
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and
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say ask Dave
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Taylor oh
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and I didn't do that but let's see maybe
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I have to push this
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button and allow to access
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microphone so we'll try
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again allow YouTube to record while
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using the app ask Dave
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Taylor and there you go that is a pretty
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easy way to navigate through YouTube TV
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again I'm going to press the the home
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button and let's go down to apps and
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let's try
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Netflix and I also haven't logged into
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Netflix but you can see it is one of the
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many apps
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[Music]
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available what you can see
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here
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so number
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one it is successfully controlling my
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the remote is success controlling the
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audio which I probably should have
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mentioned when I pressed the mute button
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but it's also working just fine with
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Netflix too and look at the quality of
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that picture again we'll go back to home
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and here's movies you can buy if you
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really want to watch Wicked and it's
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definitely way better than Craven the
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hunter is and it's probably also better
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than Sonic 3 though I really enjoyed
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Sonic 3 I mean these are fantastic
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movies that you can rent right there
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boom Moana 2 very entertaining den of
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Thieves 2
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eh but hey you didn't connect to this
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YouTube review to hear my movie reviews
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but you can see Google TV top 10 in the
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US and you can notice again that they're
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from different services so this is
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something where unless you pay for a lot
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of different streaming services you're
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going to encounter some things you won't
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be able to watch so here we have Disney
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plus and then number two is Cinemax I'm
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uh HBO Max sorry um and then Disney plus
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again and then Prime video and this is
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on peacock and this one is just a
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straight rental from Google TV service
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as is this and so notice the difference
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in price so Sonic the Hedgehog 3 is
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$5.99 but Mufasa is $29.99 to watch that
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movie that's it's pretty impressive one
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of the things I really really like about
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modern Google TV is it supports Apple TV
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plus and I actually enjoy the heck out
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of the Apple TV programming but again
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Google TV we can search by genre there's
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a lot we can do I will again go back to
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the top we looked at live let's look at
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apps and you can see here are my apps
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right there nice and easy and then we
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can look at our library and of course if
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we had that media on that USB drive that
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would be part of how we might access
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that we have a universal
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search and then we have the ability to
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adjust lots of different settings and go
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into Google home and oh I need to update
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my remote I need to finish setup we'll
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do that later let me jump back on camera
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setup took a while I admit it but there
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were also a bunch of updates to apply
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and I still haven't logged into some of
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these streaming services but I think
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you've got a really really good sense of
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what the mag 555 offers it's a full high
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quality easy to work with Google TV
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experience and their remote control is
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Slim and super light and as you can see
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in this closeup it has a lot of buttons
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giving you a lot of access to your
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favorite content whether it's live
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streams and you saw there were tons of
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different streams whether it's your own
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Library whether it is
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content that you've put on your flash
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drive or whether it's actually through
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various apps now as I said it does
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include Magic Launcher and ministra pro
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which are two apps from infomir I will
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let you explore them you can just go on
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to Google Play and just have a look to
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see what they do but let's get back to a
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couple more specs before I wrap up so I
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think I said it's HDMI 2.1 with hdcp and
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Bluetooth 5.0 so you can use this pair
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it with headphones and then listen
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wirelessly and privately to whatever
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content you're watching this is such a
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blessing if you're someone who watches
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content late at night or if you have no
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neighbors that are complaining it's
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always noisy just put on headphones or
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even earbuds pair them and you're good
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to go and they have no idea what you're
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doing so really nice just as importantly
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it works with googlecast formerly known
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as chomecast
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which means that if you have a computer
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or an Android phone and depending on the
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app a number of apps you can use on the
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iPhone you can literally just wirelessly
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send video content to this which will
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show up on your TV it is a delight it
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works really well if you're doing
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something like video conferencing or
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better if you're attending a lecture via
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video you can just push it onto your
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television how nice is that so custom
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parental profile that's part of Google
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TV we saw that way back at the beginning
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of my setup and if you don't have Google
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home already set up on your mobile
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device you can just go through the whole
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process here and it's a little more
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tedious you're going to have to log into
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your Google account you'll have to log
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into your Wi-Fi network I Sid stepped
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all of that which was quite delightful
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actually and of course because it is
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full Google TV running Android you get
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access to the Google Play store which
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gives you over $10,000 applications you
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can choose from notably including two
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that I demoed Netflix and Disney plus so
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you've seen the size you've seen the
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remote we've looked at everything that
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was in the Box we can see um what's
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happened here is that it's just
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advertising so let's go
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down um you can see all the different
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choices you have here it's really nice
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it's super easy to work with and
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certainly once you get it set up you are
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good to go and I really like the power
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switch a lot of these devices you have
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no idea how to turn it on or off but if
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you need to turn it off for any reason
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or you just want to actually I don't
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know cycle power because it got into a
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weird state which can happen then it's
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super easy to do that really appreciate
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all of that so that's everything I got
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this is definitely one worth checking
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out I am going to invite you to
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20:04
that you did and if there's something
20:06
you wish I would have covered and I
20:08
didn't go ahead and leave that in a
20:10
comment so that when I do another OT or
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over-the-top IPTV box then I'll be able
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to include that too so that's everything
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I got this let me hold it up is the
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infomir mag 555 4K HDR Google TV OT ipv
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box it's a lot of keywords there and it
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is $107 currently discounted down to $91
20:39
at us. infomir dosto I think this is a
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solid option if you're tired of your TV
20:45
having crummy choices for you or a bad
20:49
Smart TV interface this gives you the
20:52
entire world of Google and so much more
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and it's a very easy streamlined and
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speedy and of course it comes with a
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Swanky remote so that's cool too that's
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everything I got I might go back to
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Hawaii 5 I have fond memories of that
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show but maybe the previous iteration of
21:10
it but anyway that's what I got hope to
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catch you in my next video
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he
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