Signs of a second Chromecast with Google TV have been spotted, and it should launch sometime this year.
Google has another Chromecast with Google TV device in the works, according to the latest rumor – and it could come with a larger amount of on-board storage as well as support for more video formats. This comes via “documentation viewed” by the always reliable 9to5Google, although there’s not much in the way of detail here: only the news that a new device with the codename Boreal has been set up to connect to the same software that the current Chromecast with Google TV does. It’s really no surprise that Google is working on another one of these pieces of hardware, because the original supercharged Chromecast (with a remote, local storage, and a new software layer) has been proving popular with users. That the upgraded Chromecast with Google TV could come with more storage is only speculation at this point, but it would certainly make sense: the original device only has 8GB of storage, which isn’t all that much room for apps and offline content.
