Various Merchants have
NVIDIA Shield Android TV 4K Pro Streaming Media Player on sale for
$174.99.
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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Unfortunately, it is expensive and uses older hardware that doesn't fully support all the new stuff. It does well with most things though.
There are some people that find it getting to be buggy, while others still have a great experience after 3 years of ownership.
I personally think this is still too expensive for a device using 3 year old hardware, but I would buy a new version of this. However, I'm not sure if Nvidia will update the hardware again.
If you just want a device that works and you aren't worried about playing high quality Blu Ray rips, this is probably overkill - I'd probably look at the firetv, Roku, ccwgtv, Apple 4k, etc.
Here's a decent discussion on Reddit comparing the Apple TV 4k / Firecube 3 / Shield Pro TV - https://www.reddit.com/r/ShieldAn...are_
Edit - it's also at Best Buy and B&H Photo for the same price.
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One small grievance. I use the gaming controller as the primary remote(has internal rechargeable batteries). I use the shield and CEC to turn the TV on off when the sheild wakes/sleeps. Any button on the controller will wake the shield which means i accidentally turn it on, and the TV at night on accident i am moving the controller or even setting it down. Wish it had a specific wake button instead of all of them.
Having said that, there is no streaming device that checks all the marks.
If you just want one device that does streaming, kodi and UHD bluray playback albeit with limitations, get a shield. Otherwise, pick a device that tailors to what you actually need.
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It's just hard to justify it so many years later, when it constantly feels like a new one is releasing soon.
I absolutely get that it's probably the best one out there, but when the competition is selling at $15-25 for a much more recent version (Chromecast, FireTV) it's hard to justify that 10x increase.
If this released at $499 and was selling at $199 now? Sure. But it released in May 2015 for $199 and is selling on ack Friday 2022 for $175
Those are the only things I can think of, and the AI Upscaling is already a feature no one has, very few people care about 120hz gaming on an android device (although some do and I'm sure you're out there), and the speed probably is fast enough. Still... paying full price for something released years ago, in which we know the manufacturing cost of the chip has declined a lot, is a little lame. But it's Nvidia... and Nvidia delivers for its shareholders.
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run out of memory couple of times when switching between netflix and youtube.
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