Are you able to entry the Play Retailer on the Chromecast with Google TV

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Is the Play Retailer accessible on the Chromecast with Google TV?

When Google lastly launched a Chromecast with a distant and apps, it is fairly thrilling however does the Chromecast with Google TV assist the Play Retailer like different Android TV boxes? Whereas this new dongle nonetheless has the performance of a conventional Chromecast that permits you to ship content material to it out of your cellphone when it has its personal distant, it ought to mean you can browse apps with out your cellphone — should not it?

Fortunately, like with its Pixel telephones, Google has baked in a customized taste of the long-running Android TV streaming platform for the Chromecast with Google TV. The twist on the present streaming platform has all of the Googlely belongings you would possibly anticipate like instructed content material based mostly on what you watch and, after all, the Play Retailer. The Play Retailer is the entry level to seek out your favourite streaming providers that assist Android TV, thus Google TV, to take pleasure in the entire reveals you may get sufficient of — and a few you may have but to find.

As a result of the Chromecast with Google TV helps the Play Retailer, you may be some video games to play on the brand new streaming gadget too. Whereas this dongle is not fairly a robust as an Nvidia Shield, it will probably play some mild video games. The brand new distant was designed to be simply as intuitive for enjoying video games as for controlling your TV.

Talking of that distant, whereas it’s effectively designed and filled with some nice options, it is nonetheless a distant, and people issues are likely to go lacking every so often. To not fear, ought to it stroll off by itself or is slide between the sofa cushions, you possibly can get a replacement so you’ll carry on streaming and discovering new apps on the Play Retailer.