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Aug 12, 2022 1:52 PM

NVIDIA Shield Android TV 4K Pro Streaming Media Player

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Amazon has NVIDIA Shield Android TV 4K Pro Streaming Media Player on sale for $169.99. Shipping is free.

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Features:
  • The Best of the Best. The world's most powerful Android TV streaming media player upgraded to Android TV version 11. Enhance HD video in real-time to 4K for clearer, crisper visuals using next-generation AI upscaling. 2x USB 3.0 ports for storage expansion, USB cameras, keyboards, controllers, and more. Plex Media Server built-in, 3 GB RAM, and 16 GB storage
  • Dolby Vision - Atmos. Bring your home theater to life with Dolby Vision HDR, and surround sound with Dolby Atmos and Dolby Digital Plus—delivering ultra-vivid picture quality and immersive audio
  • 4K HDR Content. Get the most 4K content of any streaming media player. Watch Netflix, Amazon Video, Apple TV+, Disney+ and Google Play Movies & TV in crisp 4K HDR, and YouTube, Hulu, and more in 4K. Stream from your phone with built-in Chromecast 4K.
  • GeForce NOW Cloud Gaming. GeForce NOW instantly transforms SHIELD TV into a powerful PC gaming rig. Play over 1000+ titles and nearly 100 of the biggest free to play games. The new GeForce NOW RTX 3080 membership unlocks GeForce RTX 3080 gaming servers in 4K HDR, the shortest wait times and longest session lengths, with RTX ON including ray tracing and DLSS graphics for supported games.
  • Voice Control. The built-in Google Assistant is at your command. See photos, live camera feeds, weather, sports scores, and more on the big screen. Dim the lights and immerse yourself in your favorite show or music using only your voice. And control your SHIELD hands-free with Google Home or Alexa and Amazon Echo.

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Amazon has NVIDIA Shield Android TV 4K Pro Streaming Media Player on sale for $169.99. Shipping is free.

Thanks to community member phoinix for finding this deal

Features:
  • The Best of the Best. The world's most powerful Android TV streaming media player upgraded to Android TV version 11. Enhance HD video in real-time to 4K for clearer, crisper visuals using next-generation AI upscaling. 2x USB 3.0 ports for storage expansion, USB cameras, keyboards, controllers, and more. Plex Media Server built-in, 3 GB RAM, and 16 GB storage
  • Dolby Vision - Atmos. Bring your home theater to life with Dolby Vision HDR, and surround sound with Dolby Atmos and Dolby Digital Plus—delivering ultra-vivid picture quality and immersive audio
  • 4K HDR Content. Get the most 4K content of any streaming media player. Watch Netflix, Amazon Video, Apple TV+, Disney+ and Google Play Movies & TV in crisp 4K HDR, and YouTube, Hulu, and more in 4K. Stream from your phone with built-in Chromecast 4K.
  • GeForce NOW Cloud Gaming. GeForce NOW instantly transforms SHIELD TV into a powerful PC gaming rig. Play over 1000+ titles and nearly 100 of the biggest free to play games. The new GeForce NOW RTX 3080 membership unlocks GeForce RTX 3080 gaming servers in 4K HDR, the shortest wait times and longest session lengths, with RTX ON including ray tracing and DLSS graphics for supported games.
  • Voice Control. The built-in Google Assistant is at your command. See photos, live camera feeds, weather, sports scores, and more on the big screen. Dim the lights and immerse yourself in your favorite show or music using only your voice. And control your SHIELD hands-free with Google Home or Alexa and Amazon Echo.

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Written by phoinix | Staff

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Dud321
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Let me be the first to say, I'll wait for the new release that must be coming soon.
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junkthemagicdragon
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Great product. I use mine almost every day for streaming, Steam streaming and Kodi. Much better for kodi than firetv if you have a large library.
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theking_z
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Its interesting to see most positive comments are from people who own this and use it daily. The nay sayers look at the spec on paper and call it crap or they dont have a use case for such a powerful player.
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Aug 12, 2022 8:47 PM
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mctronAug 12, 2022 8:47 PM
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Used ones are still running 150+ on ebay. So I don't see the scoffing at the price. Might be a new model on the horizon but who knows. If you need one (apk sideloading, have a bunch of bluray remux, running a plex server, etc) this is pretty much as low as it gets
Aug 12, 2022 8:49 PM
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speedyslick46Aug 12, 2022 8:49 PM
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Quote from rrmoore View quoted comment :
Hope they're not in ISO formats as the Plex server doesn't support them. Even my WDTV plays ISOs perfectly.

REPOST. Don't need two deal threads.
https://slickdeals.net/f/15972829-nvidia-shield-android-tv-pro-16gb-4k-hdr-streaming-media-player-169-99-free-s-h-best-buy?v=1
Yeah, that's my biggest issue with Plex and why I only use it for DVR of OTA. We still use Kodi as I'm not converting 2000+ .iso files.
Aug 12, 2022 8:52 PM
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vgXhcAug 12, 2022 8:52 PM
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Quote from Ersatz_Haderach View quoted comment :
It's only suitable as a server for small libraries with optional features like thumbnailing turned off. The real problem is the 16GB which gets eaten up by metadata and fanart fast. You can add usb storage (sata or nvme, thumb drives are not recommended) but that's an additional cost.

For plex playback it's a champ.
You can move the Plex metadata library to external storage, but even then the 16GB is not a lot. I constantly have to deal with "Your Shield is low on storage" warnings, despite having few apps installed. Otherwise I love my Shield.
Aug 12, 2022 9:09 PM
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Geronemo3Aug 12, 2022 9:09 PM
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Quote from Panchovilla64 View quoted comment :
Mine freezes like it works bur everytime it turns on my remote won't work on it for 1 minute even tho stuff is moving in the shield
I have the older shield but never had that problem.
Aug 12, 2022 9:11 PM
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animeorbAug 12, 2022 9:11 PM
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Quote from kylwilliams11 View quoted comment :
At this price point, why not get an Xbox One X?
Because this is one of the few streaming boxes that can basically do any audio/video format. It supports Dolby Vision, both the streaming and disk types (Can stream full 4k uhds from plex), dolby atmos with TrueHD, DTS Master, etc.
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Aug 12, 2022 9:16 PM
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kyledkatAug 12, 2022 9:16 PM
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Quote from Fantasysage View quoted comment :
This is like 4 years old and charging $170 is criminal.
Yeah, every thread with an Apple TV 4K has droves of comments lamenting the price (even when it was $120) and comparing it to their $25 Fire Stick, but zero mention of the price on the Shield TV Pro. I guess it's okay when it's not Apple asking too much for their product.
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Aug 12, 2022 9:16 PM
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GsxrrrAug 12, 2022 9:16 PM
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I use this as the media player in my home theater for streaming 4k content from my Plex media server. I compared this the Roku Ultra and the Apple TV 4k and hands down this has the best features and was exactly what I was looking for. 4k, supports Dolby atmos, Ethernet cable. streaming sticks are not even in the same class as these. I do own several sticks but they do not support Dolby atmos and can not handle uncompressed streams of 4k from my plex.
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Aug 12, 2022 9:16 PM
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So-Many-DealsAug 12, 2022 9:16 PM
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Quote from vgXhc View quoted comment :
You can move the Plex metadata library to external storage, but even then the 16GB is not a lot. I constantly have to deal with "Your Shield is low on storage" warnings, despite having few apps installed. Otherwise I love my Shield.
Why not just use one of the USB ports for an external solid state drive, as adoptive memory not external, and move the library there?
Aug 12, 2022 9:17 PM
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NSTarAug 12, 2022 9:17 PM
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We need a new model. 8k AI upscaling or something.
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Aug 12, 2022 9:18 PM
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kyledkatAug 12, 2022 9:18 PM
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Quote from Gidaean View quoted comment :
I halfway agree but it could be another year or three before we see that.

I bought this in 2019 and it's seen multiple thousands of hours of use by family members. Every other streamer box and TV interface is terrible in comparison, although the ATV 4k should be compared if you're all in on Apple.

The AI upscaling feature (1080p->4k) has to be seen to be believed. On the MEDIUM setting, 1080p looks almost as good as 4k (maybe like "2.5k to 3k" to give you an idea). It works far better than any TVs consumers generally own that I know about, is snappy, gets major and minor updates for security and new features for YEARS instead of being orphaned like built-in Smart TV OS's, and has the best security as you van disable all snooping and ad features EXCEPT the new top banner. Still, it doesn't listen in on you or what you're watching to send to advertisers like many devices and Smart TVs do *EVEN IF* you think you've disabled all of that.
I'll chime in, I don't think the AI upscaling was that great. I tried out the Shield TV Pro a couple of years back, and all it did was sharpen up outlines of still/slow-moving objects. Textures were still muddy and blurry if the camera was moving and it was extremely distracting to see in motion.
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Aug 12, 2022 9:26 PM
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bgriggAug 12, 2022 9:26 PM
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This was already posted earlier today, but with BestBuy. Amazon is just price matching.
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Aug 12, 2022 9:26 PM
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LEOMHK1.0Aug 12, 2022 9:26 PM
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Quote from Dud321 View quoted comment :
Let me be the first to say, I'll wait for the new release that must be coming soon.
There's always a new, faster, better product around the corner and it usually comes with a higher sticker price.
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Aug 12, 2022 9:35 PM
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DreneepsAug 12, 2022 9:35 PM
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Quote from mwiley62890 View quoted comment :
Does PS Remote Play work on this device?
No.
Only PC and specific PlayStation devices.
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Aug 12, 2022 9:39 PM
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DreneepsAug 12, 2022 9:39 PM
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I have one of these and I love it. We have been heavy users of the 2015 shield TV Pro for many years. (Which I think is pretty much the same as this model.)

My only issue lately is that it seems like I can't get OEM replacement controllers for any reasonable price?

I searched extensively the other day and couldn't find any.

Does anyone know why they are so hard to find and so expensive?

I think there were some available from a third party Amazon seller for like $90.00 or something crazy like that.

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Aug 12, 2022 9:43 PM
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burkebhAug 12, 2022 9:43 PM
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I love mine but it often won't work with Hulu. Amazing for Plex. Attached a 1TB usb ssd for the blurays.
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