Google TV, onn, and Android are all owned by Google. Essentially, different names for the same thing. Looking at that device at Walmart I think it is the same as mine. I did end up keeping it, and it works rather well.
I will say, if I had to do it over again, I would likely have gotten an Amazon Fire streaming device instead. It has all the features of the Onn box but I like the user interface a little better, and more importantly, IT HAS A PLAY/PAUSE BUTTON. As you can tell, the lack of a Play/Pause button, as well as FF and Rewind button with the Onn device REALLY bugs me. The Amazon Fire system has both.
Below is a link to their basic model. There are also higher-end ones available with more memory and additional features.
The lack of direct pause/play would drive me nuts too so I bought a fire TV stick 4K max at a local Best Buy today. $32.99 Black Friday sale. Iām coming from a Roku stick with the dreaded kick back to grid issue, which is just the latest Tablo/Roku compatibility issue Iāve encountered.
The fire tv stick works and I already noticed a really nice feature I never saw with the Roku. I think another poster mentioned it. While watching live TV, tap the down arrow and one of the options is āChannelsā, where you can see what else is on while the current show is still active in the background. Sweet! Pausing also brings up the options. On the Roku you had to back completely out to the grid.
I just looked again on my Roku streaming stick 4k and didnāt see any way to do this. Maybe a limitation of the stick? Iād ask how you saw the guide as background, but I had to fart around with the audio settings again just to get it to work per the Tablo support recommendation. Of course video but no audio, which they mentioned could happen. Iām done with Roku, at least for now. Time to move on.
Too bad it doesnāt respect the top-level guide filter setting. I have it set to favorites, but the sub-level live guide still shows all channels. @TabloTV
I hear you. I canāt even get my Roku 4K stick to play video without audio, it just wonāt play anything from Tablo. But when it was working if I pressed the down arrow I got a display showing what was currently on the other channels. Luckily for me my older non 4K stick still works including the ānow playingā display so I use it to watch Tablo and the 4K stick to watch 4k content from streaming. Thinking about getting a Firestick though so I donāt have to keep switching.
Im glad to see people finally seeing itās a Roku problem, not a Tablo problem. I see so many people getting angry at Tablo when the problems caused are not within their control or making.