More Gemini features are coming to Google TV

You know how your TV remote used to just change channels and adjust the volume? Well, Google’s been quietly turning your TV into something closer to a creative assistant. The latest update to Google TV brings more of their Gemini AI tools right into your living room, including the ability to do things like transform photos and videos directly on your screen. Think of it like having a basic photo editing studio built into the same device you use to watch cooking shows.

The tools themselves — one for tweaking images and another for working with video — are designed to be simple enough that you don’t need to be a tech person to use them. It’s similar to how your phone’s camera app started doing all those automatic touch-ups without you asking. The difference here is that it’s happening on your TV, which has a much bigger screen and is already sitting in the room where most families gather. Google is essentially trying to make your television the hub for more than just streaming, nudging it toward being a general-purpose household AI device.

Now, the practical question: what does this actually mean for your wallet?

If you run any kind of small business that uses visuals — an Etsy shop, a local restaurant, a freelance photography side hustle — having a large-screen tool to quickly review and tweak product photos or short video clips before posting them could save you time and the cost of basic editing software subscriptions. You could batch-review your content on the big screen instead of hunching over a laptop.

For regular people, this is a chance to finally do something with the thousands of photos and videos sitting on your phone. If these tools can pull your media onto the TV and help you clean up or remix old videos into something shareable, you could create family highlight reels or memory videos without paying for apps like Animoto or Adobe Express, which can run $10-20 a month.

There’s also a small opportunity here for anyone who does social media content for local businesses or community groups. Learning these built-in TV tools early — before everyone else catches on — means you can offer a low-cost content editing service using hardware your clients probably already own.

Your TV is slowly becoming more useful than your cable subscription ever was, and the people who figure that out first are the ones who’ll save money while everyone else is still paying for apps to do the same thing.