Various retailers have
16GB NVIDIA Shield TV Pro 4K Android Streaming Media Player on sale for
$174.99.
Shipping is free or choose curbside pickup where stock permits.
Thanks to Community Member
mo0sic for finding this deal.
Note, pickup availability will vary by location.
Available retailers:Features:- The Best of the Best: The world's most powerful Android TV streaming media player, thanks to the new NVIDIA Tegra X1+ chip.
- 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.
- Best-In-Class Design: Designed for the most demanding users and beautifully designed to be the perfect centerpiece of your entertainment center, SHIELD TV Pro levels you up to more storage space, more RAM, the expandability of 2x USB 3.0 ports, and Plex Media Server.
- Unlimited Entertainment: Enjoy the most 4K HDR content of any streaming media player, and access to thousands of apps and games, including top apps like Netflix, YouTube, Prime Video, Disney + and Hulu.
- 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.
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Only feature I'm truly missing is the 4K upscaling feature. You can even use Steam Link and connect a controller easily to the ATV. If you truly need the more hardcore audio codecs, sideloading apps, watch a ton of 1080P content, or want to use it as a file server, the shield pro is likely the better option for you. If none of this matters to you, get the ATV 4K.
Amazon is adding TrueHD and DTS-HD to the 3rd gen Cube, and it has
AV1 support
VP9.2 HDR, and HDR10+ support
WiFi6E
Hands free voice control
30-35% faster CPU
IR blaster
HDMI in
30% cheaper
Why give Nvidia your money for outdated tech? Deprogram yourself, and buy based on specs not on brand loyalty.
https://www.reddit.com/r/fireTV/c...team_a_new
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Amazon is adding TrueHD and DTS-HD to the 3rd gen Cube, and it has
AV1 support
VP9.2 HDR, and HDR10+ support
WiFi6E
Hands free voice control
30-35% faster CPU
IR blaster
HDMI in
30% cheaper
Why give Nvidia your money for outdated tech? Deprogram yourself, and buy based on specs not on brand loyalty.
https://www.reddit.com/r/fireTV/c...team_a_new
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Amazon is adding TrueHD and DTS-HD to the 3rd gen Cube, and it has
AV1 support
VP9.2 HDR, and HDR10+ support
WiFi6E
Hands free voice control
30-35% faster CPU
IR blaster
HDMI in
30% cheaper
Why give Nvidia your money for outdated tech? Deprogram yourself, and buy based on specs not on brand loyalty.
https://www.reddit.com/r/fireTV/c...team_a_new [reddit.com]
- The Amazon UI is atrocious and there's ads for Arby's and Ford trucks jammed into every other row of icons on the screen.
- The remote also sucks and has big protruding app shortcut buttons that you'll hit on accident all the time. My LG OLED remote has this and it drives me crazy.
- Upscaling sucks, the Shield just plain owns the cube here
- HDMI in is clunky and laggy, useless for connecting a gaming console, some sound syncing issues on other devices
- USB is Type 2, so playing HD content over an attached hard drive or USB is a no-go, Shield is USB3
- In practice the WiFi6E underperforms the spec, it's somehow no faster than Shields older hardware
- Sideloading apps is a bigger PITA than on a normal android device, not as open. Same issues with their Kindle eReaders, mainly why I stray from Amazon
Also is a dumb ugly cube designed to listen to you so you can ask the weather and add broccoli to your shopping list and other dumb shit that grandmothers like. All in all I'd say it's a far cry from "The King," but to each his own.The shield has plenty of its own problems, the remote also sucks, not as bad as cube IMO but that's subjective. YouTube HDR is a problem for people that watch HDR content, I don't personally know where to even watch HDR stuff on YoutTube, (is this for paid content?). The homescreen also sucks on Shield, but again not as bad as Cube. At the end of the day though it's 10x easier to make modifications and tweaks, sideload, etc on the Shield as it is on any Amazon device, with better side-loading capabilities and more third-party development happening.
So all in all I'd recommend anyone to just go to any devices dedicated sub-reddit and see what users are complaining about there vs solutions before making a purchase decision.
Amazon is adding TrueHD and DTS-HD to the 3rd gen Cube, and it has
https://www.reddit.com/r/fireTV/c...team_a_new
I'm on a Shield since 2015, and my current model is the 2017. From my experience with older generation Amazon tech, the ads were intrusive and heavily pushed Amazon content. I also disliked the closed environment Amazon created, I prefer native Google Assistant compatibility.
Fully appreciate the tech is superior (if it works), but I prefer the Shield's interface and compatibility. I'm debating an upgrade, and wonder if Amazon improved in these areas. Please let me know your experience.
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- The Amazon UI is atrocious and there's ads for Arby's and Ford trucks jammed into every other row of icons on the screen.
- The remote also sucks and has big protruding app shortcut buttons that you'll hit on accident all the time. My LG OLED remote has this and it drives me crazy.
- Upscaling sucks, the Shield just plain owns the cube here
- HDMI in is clunky and laggy, useless for connecting a gaming console, some sound syncing issues on other devices
- USB is Type 2, so playing HD content over an attached hard drive or USB is a no-go, Shield is USB3
- In practice the WiFi6E underperforms the spec, it's somehow no faster than Shields older hardware
- Sideloading apps is a bigger PITA than on a normal android device, not as open. Same issues with their Kindle eReaders, mainly why I stray from Amazon
Also is a dumb ugly cube designed to listen to you so you can ask the weather and add broccoli to your shopping list and other dumb shit that grandmothers like. All in all I'd say it's a far cry from "The King," but to each his own.The shield has plenty of its own problems, the remote also sucks, not as bad as cube IMO but that's subjective. YouTube HDR is a problem for people that watch HDR content, I don't personally know where to even watch HDR stuff on YoutTube, (is this for paid content?). The homescreen also sucks on Shield, but again not as bad as Cube. At the end of the day though it's 10x easier to make modifications and tweaks, sideload, etc on the Shield as it is on any Amazon device, with better side-loading capabilities and more third-party development happening.
So all in all I'd recommend anyone to just go to any devices dedicated sub-reddit and see what users are complaining about there vs solutions before making a purchase decision.
Why would you run a game console through the Cube anyway?!? That's not what the HDMI port is for. This is how to get minimum lag 101.
USB2 is 480Mbps, more than 3x bandwidth than any UHD movies that exist. I can stream UHD Blu-rays on USB2 on devices slower than the 3rd gen Cube easy already.
WiFi6E underperforms but is still faster than what you get from the Shield.
Sideloading is a pain in the ass? FFS use send to tv, or any of the other half dozen apps that let you install apps remotely from a phone.
These are just a bunch of crap excuses for Shield owners to keep telling themselves that they have the best device.
It use to be the Shield is the fastest, now it's slower than the AppleTV, 3rd gen Cube and even the 2nd gen Cube because of the last buggy Shield Android update.
Then it was, but the Shield is the only one that can do lossless audio, well now the 3rd gen Cube will do that and VP9.2, HDR10+and AV1.
Next thing Shield shills will be saying 'but it's the best for games', give me a break! The Shield is OLD, if you want to game get a real console.
I understand if you already own a Shield the 3rd gen Cube might not be worth the upgrade, but if you are looking to buy a new streaming device it's just foolish to pay more and get less with the Shield.
Yeah the 3rd gen Cube has bugs now, it's NEW, not recycled hardware from 2015.
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