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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They don't need massive changes, just several little improvements. I wonder if AppleTV is biting into their sales. Apple has the advantage as they could give away their product for free, hoping to make up for it with Apple service revenues.
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Many immediately add adoptive memory to boost the little 16GB memory. That's an immediate added cost plus many solutions are just bad. Many USB sticks have poor performance for continuous read/writes and ultimately fail. Then it's a portable SSD that might be a $100 add-on.
For all the great features of the Shield, they all come with little footnotes that can be seen in the many Nvidia support threads and reddit chats. But of course, some owners really push their Shields to do everything to the max.
And in case someone hasn't already posted it, BB has this for the same price at their website too. So going to just place an order for pickup today.
The Disney+ android tv app just kinda sucks. You can't set subtitle sizes (the D+ app for my tv's webos does), and the app regularly causes my shield to reboot when I start a video.
The remote will just lose connection on me randomly and the only way to fix it is to hard reboot the shield. Extremely annoying and basically unacceptable.
This thing is fully unable to play HDR content on youtube for technical reasons. Apparently this will never be resolved. Honestly this is the least of issues as I don't really go to youtube for HDR content much at all, but still pretty disappointing for such a premium-priced device.
If I were to do it again I'd consider other options.
Yes there are many devices that outperform the Shield. The new AppleTV is faster. If you want something that is completely open and customizable checkout the X58 which crushes the Shield in terms of ports, hardware and benchmarks
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_2FGKaT
Sure it costs a little more, but if money is an issue the 2nd gen Cube goes on sale for $60 (1/3 the price of the shield) and has equal CPU benchmarks. Block updates and use a custom launcher, and no Amazon ads.
It feels like these Nvidia Shield sales threads are mostly Shield owners, here to stroke their own egos about how they have the 'best' device.
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Many immediately add adoptive memory to boost the little 16GB memory. That's an immediate added cost plus many solutions are just bad. Many USB sticks have poor performance for continuous read/writes and ultimately fail. Then it's a portable SSD that might be a $100 add-on.
For all the great features of the Shield, they all come with little footnotes that can be seen in the many Nvidia support threads and reddit chats. But of course, some owners really push their Shields to do everything to the max.
I would love the 4k upscale feature but it's not worth the $200 after tax to get it.
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