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TL;DR
- Google Home app replace reveals a mysterious new device codenamed “YTD.”
- “YTD” is handled like a Chromecast with Google TV, in contrast to different third-party gadgets.
- This hints at a potential new Chromecast with Google TV within the works, however particulars and launch date stay unknown.
Leaks have been hinting towards Google working on a new Chromecast with Google TV device. And yet one more reference was just lately found within the newest Google Home app replace.
The discovery was made by 9to5Google in an APK teardown of the Google Home app. The outlet observed that Google added a number of new fashions to the interior checklist of Google Cast-compatible gadgets. Among them, three have been labeled as JBL Authentics audio system that have been launched final 12 months. However, one device, “YTD,” remained unknown and intriguing.
An APK teardown helps predict options that may arrive on a service sooner or later primarily based on work-in-progress code. However, it’s potential that such predicted options may not make it to a public launch.
The publication confirmed that Google Home treats “YTD” as a Chromecast device, not as a Google TV device from a third-party producer. This means that “YTD” might be a new Chromecast with Google TV device that Google is growing. The device is listed alongside the prevailing HD and 4K fashions of Chromecast with Google TV.
You may do not forget that earlier within the 12 months, a device with the codename “YTC” appeared within the app’s code. YTC was even explicitly known as a “Chromecast with Google TV.” However, this device by no means materialized. It ought to be famous that the unique mannequin was known as “YTV,” and the HD mannequin as “YTB.”
Chromecast with Google TV gadgets run on Google TV, a revamped model of Android TV. Unlike the earlier Chromecast fashions that required a telephone or pill to regulate them or forged content material, Chromecast with Google TV gadgets come with a distant and a consumer interface that allows you to browse and play content material from numerous apps and companies, very like different streaming gadgets.
It remains to be unclear whether or not “YTD” is certainly a new Chromecast with Google TV device, and if that’s the case, when it is going to be launched. It is feasible that Google is simply testing a prototype or a variant of the prevailing dongle and that it may by no means see the sunshine of day. However, we haven’t seen a new 4K Chromecast device since 2020, and a new Chromecast device with improved specs and options would be extremely welcome. Until Google formally declares something, we will solely speculate and hope for the perfect.