I'll be the lonely voice here who says this: Google TV is the least worst option in a sea of mediocrity. I still use a Logitech Revue (conspicuously absent from the updated products list, once again) and I've yet to find any better platform. There's one simple reason for this: It goes in between a content feed (such as cable or antenna) and your tv. In that way, it can control content on my network, the streaming services, AND live tv or DVR shows. No other product that I'm aware of does that. I want one interface to control all those things. Roku doesn't do that. Apple TV doesn't do that. Hell, my Samsung "smart" tv doesn't do that either. Tivo? A pile of laggy shit, and it can't stream on my network without jumping through 1000 hoops. Also, $15 bucks a month for a program guide is highway robbery.

I'd love to not have to have a cable source for shows, but until the content producers get their heads out of their asses, I still can't watch what I want from the Netflix/Hulu combination. I also hate having to switch apps to use those, but such is life it seems.

It's FAR from ideal, but it's the most polished turd I can find. It's the only thing I know of that (barely) passes the wife test and does the things I need.