By Roger Fingas
Publication Date: 2026-08-22 21:01:00
We’re at a strange stage in the evolution of Google TV, mostly because of one word: Gemini. TVs capable of running that AI should handle the platform as a whole well, since there’s a baseline of required performance. Yet because most people don’t upgrade their TVs (or add-on media streamers) that often, there’s a chance that you’re stuck with a product that not only can’t run Gemini, but might be falling behind in general performance.
Regardless of which camp you’re in, there are a few tricks you can use to get a Google TV device to run faster. You may be sacrificing features in some circumstances, but nothing critical. I’m assuming here that you’re using a TV with Google TV preloaded, but some of these tricks will carry over to a Chromecast or Google TV Streamer.
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