It took me quite a while to understand that this device is actually something I wanted. Their marketing is terrible and I had to read an article on another site

It took me quite a while to understand that this device is actually something I wanted. Their marketing is terrible and I had to read an article on another site to actually decipher the code words. It's not a Chromecast, as we used to understand them - it's a full Android TV device with a new skin/launcher called Google TV. It is, essentially, an updated Nexus Player, a competitor to the Nvidia shield and cheaper no-name android stick devices. One can hope it will be easily rooted, thus allowing for some interesting potential uses.