Amazon has
NVIDIA Shield Android TV 4K Pro Streaming Media Player on sale for
$174.99.
Shipping is free.
Thanks to community member
MartinV8691 for sharing 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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There are alternatives that are actually superior to Shield in almost every way now. For example, the Homatics Box R 4k Plus / Dune HD / Nokia 8010 / RockTek G2 devices.
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Also, occasionally I take my Shield on the road, and need to play media files via the USB port from a flash drive or HDD. There is no router with USB ports to plug into in a hotel room for example, or this is not feasible at other people's houses.
So you see, it is very useful to have USB ports on the Shield, using Kodi for playback. I don't have to have a noisy or power-hungry desktop powered up, or buy a NAS or what have you. I just plug in my drives (external or thumb) to the Shield, and fire up Kodi and there is no stuttering. Everything plays, and I can skip forwards and backwards without any issues with lip-sync or subtitles (I use subtitles very frequently).
If Apple wants my business, they can jolly well put some USB ports on their box.
I have an older (10 year old?) tp link router. I have no trouble playing all my uncompressed blu ray rips using plex on my Apple TV's. Believe me, I'm no genius. Plex isn't complicated. There are lots of tutorials on how to get started.
Do the TV's you run into in hotels and friend's houses have usb ports. Many do these days.
As one other poster pointed out, we have no issues playing blu ray rips with the drive plugged straight into the tv.
You can also access all your media from plex while on the road by buying the "plex pass". It will be compressed, but that is the small price for a lot of convenience of not having to carry gear around.
I think Apple has plenty of business already (like 3 TRILLION dollars worth) to be concerned for a small niche market of consumers. But I really think with all the other options, not having a usb port on a media player has become an antiquated gripe.
The upscaling didn't look any better with Shield so returned it.
Don't understand it's use if you have a NAS. And or $200, just get a NAS isntead.
HDR has very different gamma and color targets.
If we're talking higher end miniLED and OLED, you'll need a different calibrator too.
While they're proprietary and messy, which sucks, they are absolutely beautiful to view on a good encode and TV.
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The PLEX app on the FireCube seems much more up to date than the ones on other platforms.