Why my family is ditching Chromecast for Android TV (yes, really)

With all the streaming devices out there these days, getting video from the internet to your TV isn't difficult. Deciding which device makes the most sense for you, though, is a whole other story.

For years, I was a reluctant Roku kind of guy. I had a set-top box that let me play stuff from Netflix, YouTube, and other such services in my living room. Like most streaming devices I'd used, it was clunky and annoying -- but it was a lesser-of-evils sort of situation that I begrudgingly accepted, with the hopes that something better would eventually come along.

And boy, did it ever: Three years ago, Google's first Chromecast hit the market and changed everything I thought I knew (and hated) about internet-to-TV streaming. It was a "brilliantly simple solution to a problem that's been overcomplicated for far too long," as I wrote after a month of living with the gadget:

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