Google TV went off the air for hours last weekend

Luckily, you could still access your library through YouTube.

Google TV went off the air for hours last weekend
  • Google TV suffered an outage for much of the day this past Saturday.
  • Both the mobile app and Google TV on streaming devices and screens were affected.
  • Everything seems to have been resolved by Sunday morning.

Compared to how people got their entertainment 25 years ago, our modern era of streaming just feels so much more civilized. Beyond having access to a greater variety of content than probably any other audience has enjoyed in history, we’re actively in charge of what we’re watching, in a way that feels particularly empowering. But for as far as we’ve come from the days of messing around with rabbit ears to get a weak station to come in, problems still happen, and it looks like Google TV ran into some major issues over the weekend.

In a thread over on the Android TV Reddit sub, user PDPopper shared word of a Google TV outage, ultimately being joined by dozens of voices confirming with their own issues (h/t Johnathan Saunders). Problems look like they first started popping up sometime around Saturday mid-day (Eastern), and we see users reporting the situation resolving by the small hours of Sunday morning.