If you’ve never heard of an android TV box, think of it as basically like a smartphone. When you have a television that runs the Android operating system, you can easily add or delete an almost endless number of software, apps, games and other services. It’s like taking your traditional TV into the next level. By adding an Android TV box to your TV you dramatically change the way you watch TV. But what specific benefits do you get? Let’s look at a few of the things you can do with an Android box.
Use your TV to play games
If you’re like most people, you probably spend more time than you’d like to admit playing games on your phone. Right? Imagine being able to while away the hours playing those same games on the big screen of your TV!
Enjoy expanded features
With an Android TV box, you can watch video playing in 1080p high definition, in addition to browsing the web on a screen much larger than your laptop, select, download and use more than 500,000 apps and games available in the Android store. There are apps for every member of your family, from kid-friendly apps to apps that help you manage your household. The box comes equipped with a great remote which makes navigating through your apps quite intuitive and easy.
You can either watch movies or other content that you have stored on your local storage, or from internet sources such as YouTube.
Find something you love? Share it with your friends and followers right from TV.
The convenience of using the internet right from your living room. This can be a great safety feature if you have children in the house who go online. You can clearly see what they are viewing and the TV can be in a central location, not their bedroom.
Your TV becomes an extra computer
The internet is a huge part of our daily lives. Virtually anything can be viewed through an Android box, including TV, websites, apps, movies, videos and more. In a way, the invention of these boxes is already starting to make traditional cable TV obsolete, a trend that will almost certainly continue.
One of the biggest advantages of an Android box is that you can easily moved pictures, movies and other content from your PC to your device through either Bluetooth technology or by way of a USB drive. That allows you to create a slide of your photos stored on your computer, for example, or to share your vacation video with friends.
One of the best parts of the Android box is how easy they are to set up. The device needs only to be plugged into a power source then connected to a compatible TV with an HDMI port. That’s it! There are no complicated steps and even a moderately savvy homeowner can probably set up the box fairly easily.