Sony Bravia 4K UHD Android TV

Mid-December is already here! Wow this month has gone fast.

Weather has been up and down, very cold, very warm and in-between up and down.

The Highlight of the Month is: We got a 4K Sony Bravia TV last week. I love it. It’s a 65X850C, plenty of HDMI inputs and also got an HT-NT3 to go with it, which adds even more inputs to the setup.

Android TV is really good, not totally though, since so many OK Google commands don’t work on Android TV. There isn’t a good list of them one can find on Android TV, though on another device it’s easy enough to get to a page online that has the basic outline of how to pose queries, suggestions of what to say.

There’s not a real browser in Android TV native. You can download both Chrome and Opera from the Play Store for Android TV. Neither work well without a Mouse connected. I have an old bluetooth mouse that does work but left click is nothing, and right click works as left click on Android TV.

Functionally there is no audio searching while using the browser, and every so often I did get browser tiles I could click on from my browsing history from Home Screen searching … but not consistently.

This is like the old days, when phones needed good shortcut pages to get around the web … making a tiny resolution links page on your own site was a really good thing, or making one for PSP, for instance.

Now I need to make a lovely resolution links page for Android TV.  Rolleyes.

The other thing then, this site, the main page, is a plain landing page, with graphics at the top and I never fully engaged anything much, so it’s pretty blah, but the graphics, at any rate, taxed others systems for years, and now, they load lightning fast for anything I use, but wow, don’t they look AWFUL in the Chrome browser on Android TV!

Nice thing I did in the Android TV Chrome browser was to look at this blog and update it, and change my theme to 2016, and colors, etc. I got an error when trying to crop any photo for a header. It worked but errored out when actually trying to crop.

The 2015 4K TV’s are DirecTV Ready. But not ready for DirecTV RVU. Why? Because no one really knows. DirecTV was told what TV we just got, and they sent a guy out to set RVU up. Wow. Why? They know yet don’t know it doesn’t work, and they put it all on Sony.

No one can get word from Sony about updating RVU to work. When will the update come? When? Since May 2015 others have wanted to know, I joined in last week.

Besides that snafu, the TV is good and I love it. Vudu and Netflix and voice search.

Show me pictures of [Say Place, Thing, Person, Year, Season, Month, Color, etc.] 

…is probably my favorite command. Unfortunately the cute things you can say on your phone and get snappy or sarcastic or lowbrow humour replies don’t work on Android TV.

I’m hoping the RVU will update before the end of the year. Since it hasn’t happened yet all year, I guess there’s a slim chance it will before 2015 comes to a close.

I’m looking forward to how much better the 850C will be once RVU shows a ready face.