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16GB NVIDIA Shield TV Pro 4K Android Streaming Media Player on sale for
$174.99.
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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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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Why give Nvidia your money for outdated tech?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
Fire Cube 3:
- The interface is by far the worst smart TV OS I have used - just looks like a cluttered mess, lack of customization options outside of having 6 favorited apps, sponsored adds for Ford trucks, McDonald's etc right on the 2nd row of the home screen that you can't get rid of. Ridiculous for a premium device. It feels zippy fast though with the Fire Cube.
- Layout of the remote is good, but the remote itself feels cheap. The 4 app shortcut buttons are annoying.
- AI upscaling is barely noticeable, and there is no transparency on how it works and on what content types.
- Content type matching works well, universal frame rate matching is there, but has to be implemented at the app level.
- Content discovery is better than the Apple TV, but you are still looking at like 75% of the suggestions being Prime video/Prime channels/Prime store suggestions.
- USB port is only 2.0 which makes it suck for internal storage speed. Ethernet is only 100 mbps, which is terrible for a 2022 release.
- HDMI in is interesting - you can connect say a Chromecast to it and then use the Alexa assistant on it, but has limited applications outside of cable/satellite boxes. Adds significant lag, so is terrible for consoles.
- WiFi performance is no better than Shield (on a gigabit connection) despite being Wifi 6E.
- Hands free voice assistant is laggy - if I don't pause for a couple seconds after saying wake word, it doesn't pick up the command half the time.
- Being able to side load apps is nice, but the process of it can be annoying/convoluted compared to Shield.
A lot of hypothetical and maybes, sure if that makes you feel better. Yeah future proofing is so important to you that you would recommend the Shield with no AV1, VP9.2, HDR10+, WiFi 6E. Sounds a bit disingenuous.
Most mainstream apps are available in the Amazon app store. Install Aptoide, Aurora, Fdroid or your pick of app store besides Google. More disingenuousness
And I agree that the 3rd gen Cube has plenty of issues but that doesn't mean it's not still a better buy. Every time this 7 year old tech with minor improvements gets a 10% discount the Shield minions come out of the woodworks to brag how they have the best hardware. You are in a cult, a 12% discount for a 4 year old tech release is laughable. Honestly, Shield shills are worse than the Apple cult.
I have no love for Amazon but they are offering a cheaper device that is more future proofed and capable. These arguments that shield owners are making are either intentionally ignorant or unintentionally so, but they are just asinine.
Yes that's a real shortcoming, but you can still use gigabit Ethernet on USB2 and get 350Mbps stably which is more than enough for UHD. Did you really not know that? More disingenuous ness. Is the Shield not recommended for WiFi users? Because the 3rd gen Cube has faster WiFi
Amazon has announced that the 3rd gen Cube is being pushed an update to enable DTS, DTS-HD, TrueHD, so wrong again. But keep pretending the Shield is the only game in town
So yeah the 3rd gen Cube is both faster than the shield and getting lossless support as well as supporting more codecs. People are already using the USB2 port to play UHD, but just keep going on believing what you want.
It took 3 generations of the Cubes to come up with something that sort of almost competes with the original Shield on paper, if you can forgive the absolute trash UI/UX and piles of Amazon bloat and telemetry trash. Have fun with that.
Something something future updates, this not that, something something fan boys. Anyone can honestly buy all 3 and return the two they don't like. You talk like it's a genocidal war of Nvidia vs Amazon. Nobody cares that much, you do you.
I'd still recommend the dated Shield to anyone over the rest for plenty of real reasons given by myself and others here, but it doesn't affect me the least, I also recommended Apple based on use cases. Good luck with your king of devices, I'm glad you found your one ring to rule them all or whatever, I just hope you don't jump off a bridge when any of the 3 companies release another device with even more modern hardware
A lot of hypothetical and maybes, sure if that makes you feel better. Yeah future proofing is so important to you that you would recommend the Shield with no AV1, VP9.2, HDR10+, WiFi 6E. Sounds a bit disingenuous.
Most mainstream apps are available in the Amazon app store. Install Aptoide, Aurora, Fdroid or your pick of app store besides Google. More disingenuousness
And I agree that the 3rd gen Cube has plenty of issues but that doesn't mean it's not still a better buy. Every time this 7 year old tech with minor improvements gets a 10% discount the Shield minions come out of the woodworks to brag how they have the best hardware. You are in a cult, a 12% discount for a 4 year old tech release is laughable. Honestly, Shield shills are worse than the Apple cult.
I have no love for Amazon but they are offering a cheaper device that is more future proofed and capable. These arguments that shield owners are making are either intentionally ignorant or unintentionally so, but they are just asinine.
Yes that's a real shortcoming, but you can still use gigabit Ethernet on USB2 and get 350Mbps stably which is more than enough for UHD. Did you really not know that? More disingenuous ness. Is the Shield not recommended for WiFi users? Because the 3rd gen Cube has faster WiFi
Amazon has announced that the 3rd gen Cube is being pushed an update to enable DTS, DTS-HD, TrueHD, so wrong again. But keep pretending the Shield is the only game in town
So yeah the 3rd gen Cube is both faster than the shield and getting lossless support as well as supporting more codecs. People are already using the USB2 port to play UHD, but just keep going on believing what you want.
That is the killer feature of the shield. Nothing else comes close in my experience.
Cube is adding some. Missing a bunch, and has a horrible history of codec support.
My shield powers my 11.1.4 dedicated home theater, with Apple and Amazon devices powering the other TVs in the house.
I use them all, they all have pros and cons, but for a serious home theater playing from a NAS nothing else comes close.
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Shield is glitchy, crashes, has color space issues, and frame-rate match issues. Don't take my word for it as a shield user for years, go look it up.
Apple TV is a superior streaming player, it's cheaper, faster (yes, the tegra x1+ chipset has aged) and isn't bogged down the mentioned issues. BUT, ATV is a non-starter if you home stream remuxes like MKV files and want lossless atmos
I'm not an Apple fanboy. I happen to use my shield almost daily in my home theater but I'd be dishonest if shortcomings weren't acknowledged.
TLDR: get an Apple TV if home streaming lossless atmos files is something you don't need, and if upscaling older content isn't a priority. Of course, you can have both - Shield for home streaming and ATV for apps
I've found there's not much need for this for my usage. I don't use PLEX or anything like that and have just upgraded to the A80K which has everything I want built in
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