Any news on Android O for 2017 TV's

[zlays84]

Any plans?Anything at all?

[mmhorda]

Yes of course.
nVidia updated their Shield TVs from 2015 and 2017 to Android Oreo...

[stormyuk]

Maybe its a blessing, as an update to Android TV would probably make our TVs run even slower.

[Kuschelmonschter]

According to a German news site, Philips is putting Oreo on all MediaTek based Android TV sets. That might put some pressure on Sony too...

SOURCE

[zlays84]

Lets hope so...it would make sense because we paid 3 times more for our sony tvs...

[stormyuk]

This is interesting if true..

https://ausdroid.net/2018/06/26/confirmed-oreo-google-assistant-sony-android-tv-2018-2017-models-201...

[Kuschelmonschter]

So according to that Sony will put Oreo only on MediaTek MT5891 (ATV2) based TVs while MediaTek MT5890 (ATV1) based TVs won't receive it. Philips also puts it on MT5890 based TVs it seems...

[stormyuk]

Not sure I even believe it.

[Kuschelmonschter]

I do. Because all TVs since mid-2016 share the same processor and firmware image (drivers a.s.o.). So updating all those TVs is actually easier than restricting it to some. Of course it is more testing effort... in theory... Sony doesn't do that though...

[zlays84]

This is great news!

[Kuschelmonschter]

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@zlays84  schrieb:

This is great news!

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Way too early to be celebrating. Suppose we are still far away from a release. And they will probably f* it up like they always do.