Google’s new TV Streamer box is driving owners nuts with out-of-sync audio

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• Multiple owners of the Google TV Streamer report the device losing sync between video and audio playback.
• The issue seems to get worse the longer the box is left on, and briefly gets better following a reset.
• The problem appears to be system-wide, rather than impacting only certain streaming services.

Modern video streaming can be something of a nightmare for people particularly sensitive to sync issues — when audio and video playback aren’t quite exactly lined up. While on old physical media sound and video would be tied together on the same piece of tape or film, with modern digital transport mechanisms and signal processing, it’s easy to get into situations where you’re out of sync by hundreds of milliseconds or more. New owners of the Google TV Streamer are now running into what seems to be a particularly egregious case of this kind of sync problem.

A growing number of users have taken to Reddit and Google’s support forums to report their experiences, and accounts from ShadowMario01, SleepyOne, and Aluuh share similar problems. They’re seeing pervasive issues with audio delays across the Google TV Streamer experience — not just in multiple apps, but also with the system UI itself. At least one report notes that the issue appears to get worse over time, almost as if there’s a “drift” to the problem.




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