India, Oct. 28 -- Our special edition Neural Dispatch conversation this week, will be particularly interesting for anyone who is fed up with their Google TV being frustratingly sluggish, serving ads on the Home Screen and carrying a bunch of apps that you don't need. Not just older Android TVs, but even the 2026 generation Google TVs. Last week has been an exercise in two very clear learnings.

First, Google TV and Android TV smart TVs needn't be slow, and secondly, just how much bloatware are TV makers loading on the televisions that we buy. If not on day one, the symptoms become clear soon enough-even the newest generation TVs take a lot of time to boot up, load the home screen, general responsiveness lags and apps take their own sweet ...