Best Buy has
16GB NVIDIA Shield Pro 4K Android Streaming Media Player (Black) on sale for
$169.99.
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About the Product- NVIDIA Tegra X1+ Chip
- 16GB Internal Flash Memory
- 3GB System Memory
- 4K HDR Content of any streaming media player
- Access to top apps/games
- Voice Control w/ Alexa
- Smart Home Ready
- Home Theater Experience
- WiFi w/ Bluetooth 5.0
- Supports many audio formats
- Compatible w/ most HDTVs/
Includes- 16GB NVIDIA Shield TV Pro 4K Android Streaming Media Player (Black)
- NVIDIA Shield Remote
- Power Cord
Warranty- Includes a standard 1-year limited warranty w/ purchase (parts + labor)
Top Comments
Firesticks and Rokus are garbage, and even the Fire Cube (yes, I have them all) can't compare to the shield. I even hacked mine so that I can press the nextflix button a short press and open plex. Long press, open netflix and double click it, and it opens hulu.
Firestick 4k Max: Best bang for your buck streamer. Can be found on sale for around $35.
Pros:
Affordable
Supports every iteration of HDR (Dolby Vision, HDR10, HDR10+, HLG)
AV1 support
Can play Youtube HDR
Can sideload apps (Kodi, etc.)
Wifi 6
Cons:
UI is ad-supported
Needs additional hardware to run ethernet and increase storage
No bitstreaming of HD audio
Occasionally needs to be rebooted
Apple TV 4K: Best pure streamer. 2021 model can be found on sale for $120-$130
Pros:
Very fluid UI. Fastest, smoothest navigation
No ads (mostly) There is autoplay enabled to some of their music video selection
Airplay 2. If you have Airplay 2 devices this makes multi room audio incredibly easy
Gigabit Ethernet
Cons:
Locked down to apple's ecosystem (No Kodi, etc.)
No usb ports for storage or game controllers
No HDR10+
No AV1 support
No Youtube HDR
Nvidia Shield: Swiss-army knife of streamers. Can be found on sale for $170
Pros:
Great for game emulators
64 bit Android (can run Dolphin emulator, Kodi 64 bit, etc)
Has usb ports for storage, game controllers, webcams, etc
Can sideload apps (Kodi, etc)
Can use Google Duo with supported webcam
Can run Plex server
Can run Channels DVR server
Bitstreams HD audio
AI upscaling (I do not have this version)
Gigabit ethernet
Cons:
Ad-supported
Last update introduced many issues (I did not update)
No HDR10+
No Youtube HDR
Occasionally needs to be rebooted
I'm sure I missed a few things but this is a general idea. I have a use case for all three streamers so I have them all connected to my main display. It really comes down to personal use case. I'm personally hoping NVidia upgrades the Shield to support AV1, HDR10+ and Youtube HDR. That would eliminate my need for the Firestick 4K Max. Being able to have the game on and airplay to other rooms makes the Apple TV 4K a keeper to me.
Hope this helps
https://www.amazon.com/NVIDIA-Shield-Android-Streaming-Performance/dp/B07YP9FBMM/ref=sr_1_2?crid=1DN... [amazon.com]
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I'm thinking of getting another one for my elderly mom so I can use AnyDesk to remote in and help her out, plus use it for video calling on the big screen.
It might be still be worth it for you if you want to be able to jump back and forth between sitting at your PC and your living room while playing the same games, but I found the latency was enough to make me not want to play anything that requires timing, and there were enough issues where things didn't work smoothly (e.g. resolution mismatch can throw things off, Nvidia Game Stream just didn't connect sometimes and I'd have to go mess with my PC to get things working), that I don't use this very often.
I've had the best experience streaming to an old laptop running Windows 10, running Moonlight, which leads me to think if the sole purpose is game streaming, a mini PC with Windows (or maybe Linux?) would be a better choice. Other devices I have streamed PC games to: MacBook Pro, iPhone, and iPad -- the Windows laptop did better than all of those for some reason. I just got a Steam Deck and I"ll be giving streaming to that a try, though the whole point for me getting that is to run the games on the Steam Deck itself so I don't have streaming latency.
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Firesticks and Rokus are garbage, and even the Fire Cube (yes, I have them all) can't compare to the shield. I even hacked mine so that I can press the nextflix button a short press and open plex. Long press, open netflix and double click it, and it opens hulu.
It is quickly going to the Roku model of allowing only the apps from the Amazon appstore.
And how is this different from Chromecast with Google tv?
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I'm never going back and will purchase the new model when it comes out. The speed, interface, AI upscaling are just the best. Now I'm the one trying to convince others to take the plunge it's like a weird cult but I can't recommend it enough.
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