{"id":9714,"date":"2020-09-30T15:54:22","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T22:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=9714"},"modified":"2020-09-30T15:54:22","modified_gmt":"2020-09-30T22:54:22","slug":"google-play-movies-tv-becomes-google-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=9714","title":{"rendered":"Google Play Movies &#038; TV Becomes Google TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/google-tv-logo.jpg\" alt=\"Google TV logo\" width=\"400\" height=\"235\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9715\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/google-tv-logo.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/google-tv-logo-300x176.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><br \/>\nJust as I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=9705\">wrote recently<\/a> about the Google Play Music app vanishing, the Google Play Movies &#038; TV app is also abdicating. It&#8217;s replacement is called Google TV.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nI&#8217;ve never liked the app name &#8220;Google Play Movies &#038; TV.&#8221; The whole &#8220;Google Play&#8221; thing seems awkward to me. The new name, Google TV, seems better. It&#8217;s naturally implied that TV would include both television shows and movies. Especially with The Virus ever present, it may be that the future of movies is on the little screen.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the juicy part from the Google press release:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Over the next few weeks, the Play Movies &#038; TV app on Android mobile devices will update to the new Google TV app. You&#8217;ll see a new overall look, including a new app icon, logo, and name.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The app is tolerable, so perhaps these improvements will be welcome. Regardless, you have no choice. Expect the change happening on your Android mobile gizmo in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another favorite app is biting the dust.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9716,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9714\/revisions\/9716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}