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Amazon has 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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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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Top Comments

MasterGamer100
O man yeah I just love buying spyware boxes from China and Russia! Any no name android box is a big no no you should watch the LTT video on what's hiding in those things.
warre2m
Same. Really all this as going for it is at this point is good AI upscaling and plex support (codecs etc) if you need neither, the Apple TV is much better hardware.
Big Wang
This should really be around $120 at this point.

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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Quote from DocuMaker :
Shield does not do YouTube in HDR, does it? Pretty lame if you ask me.
The Shield Pro aupports Dolby Vision and HDR10 for many apps, so if YouTube doesn't on the device, it's likely just a matter of software update on the developer's side. So not a hardware issue. HDR is a controversial topic in itself for me...99% wouldn't be able to identify HDR. It's more marketing gimmick than practical...I still believe a calibrated non-HDR tv will look excellent. For example, OLED without HDR looks amazing. Youtube videos of demo videos still look excellent. I could turn off HDR on everyone's TV and they wouldn't even notice.
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Quote from LovelySparrow901 :
. Why?
I have thousands of media files stored on external drives. I need USB ports to plug in my external HDDs or flash drives to play my files. How am I going to play them on the Apple TV with no USB ports?
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Quote from DocuMaker :
I have thousands of media files stored on external drives. I need USB ports to plug in my external HDDs or flash drives to play my files. How am I going to play them on the Apple TV with no USB ports?
Does your router have a usb port for such drives?
All my media files are on my pc. I play them through plex app on Apple TV.
Also a lot of TV's have usb ports for external drives. I know my 2 oled's do. When my internet goes down for a long time, say after a storm, I can plug a drive into my tv and watch movies.
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Quote from Soofdawg :
The Shield Pro aupports Dolby Vision and HDR10 for many apps, so if YouTube doesn't on the device, it's likely just a matter of software update on the developer's side. So not a hardware issue. HDR is a controversial topic in itself for me...99% wouldn't be able to identify HDR. It's more marketing gimmick than practical...I still believe a calibrated non-HDR tv will look excellent. For example, OLED without HDR looks amazing. Youtube videos of demo videos still look excellent. I could turn off HDR on everyone's TV and they wouldn't even notice.
Nevermind. You are not a videophile and simply don't understand. I don't care whose fault it is, the fact of the matter is, the Shield doesn't do YouTube HDR, which is lame. Not paying $170 for another one of these until they add that capability.
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Quote from DocuMaker :
Nevermind. You are not a videophile and simply don't understand. I don't care whose fault it is, the fact of the matter is, the Shield doesn't do YouTube HDR, which is lame. Not paying $170 for another one of these until they add that capability.
I've been a videophile and audiophile for over 20 years, hence my criticism on HDR. Lossless audio from films is more beneficial and what sound engineers spend more time producing...people not fully experiencing this is lame. And the Shield Pro supports it without other lagging issues other devices have even if they support some of the same features....execution of hardware of software is still better in Shield Pro than others.
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Runs Kodi like a charm.
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Quote from DocuMaker :
I have thousands of media files stored on external drives. I need USB ports to plug in my external HDDs or flash drives to play my files. How am I going to play them on the Apple TV with no USB ports?
For me I just use the USB ports on my 4K TV. They play all the H264 & H265 MKV K-Drama episodes I have in my collection.
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Quote from az060693 :
It doesn't support all of the latest video codecs. It can't support FEL DV which is increasingly popular.
The use case will be very small for FEL...you need 12-bit TVs, and even then, what's the practical benefit over 10-bit which already delivery excelleng PQ? As far as streamers, without nitpicking on one small spec that in practical applications NO ONE can tell the difference in a side by side blind test.
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Quote from Soofdawg :
I've been a videophile and audiophile for over 20 years, hence my criticism on HDR. Lossless audio from films is more beneficial and what sound engineers spend more time producing...people not fully experiencing this is lame. And the Shield Pro supports it without other lagging issues other devices have even if they support some of the same features....execution of hardware of software is still better in Shield Pro than others.
HDR contents are best viewed at nighttime unless you have a dark media room. I don't, my family room is pretty bright during the day & on my C2 still prefer watching HDR content at night.
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Quote from LovelySparrow901 :
Does your router have a usb port for such drives?
All my media files are on my pc. I play them through plex app on Apple TV.
Also a lot of TV's have usb ports for external drives. I know my 2 oled's do. When my internet goes down for a long time, say after a storm, I can plug a drive into my tv and watch movies.
There are two USB ports on my router, but the router is not close to the Shield/TV. I constantly hear all this hype about Plex, but it seems complicated to use. Will Apple TV via Plex play Dolby True-HD and DTS-HD audio? I hear a lot about transcoding with Plex. Could that possibly lower the picture quality? I often need to rewind or fast forward or jump ahead to a certain point in a video file. It seems like this could be a problem when having to do all this wirelessly. If I am using the wi-fi on the router to stream the files to the Apple TV using Plex, won't that tie up some of the wi-fi bandwidth? What if I want to download some large file on my laptop over wi-fi at the same time I am using Plex?

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.
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Quote from Soofdawg :
I've been a videophile and audiophile for over 20 years, hence my criticism on HDR. Lossless audio from films is more beneficial and what sound engineers spend more time producing...people not fully experiencing this is lame. And the Shield Pro supports it without other lagging issues other devices have even if they support some of the same features....execution of hardware of software is still better in Shield Pro than others.
I appreciate lossless audio *and* HDR. To suggest that HDR is pointless and no one can tell the difference makes you not a true videophile. Perhaps folks can't tell the difference because they do not have a truly HDR capable display. Many lower-end displays simply don't have the brightness capability to display HDR properly or very well.
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Quote from mig0 :
How do you rip the blue ray connected to the shield?
Not Shield...use PC/Mac to rip. You need an external bluray drive for the PC, and do the rips via MakeMKV (Beta version is free). I used an Asus Libredrive capable drive (you have to flash the firmware (have to look up exact one, search on MakeMKV forum) to an older one easily with SDFtool Flasher: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B071VP8...ct_details
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Quote from djdaruma :
I think the form factor is great. I think the button layout is somehow confusing.
As with any remote, just have to get used to it...but design is better than most IMO.
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Quote from Soofdawg :
Not Shield...use PC/Mac to rip. You need an external bluray drive for the PC, and do the rips via MakeMKV (Beta version is free). I used an Asus Libredrive capable drive (you have to flash the firmware (have to look up exact one, search on MakeMKV forum) to an older one easily with SDFtool Flasher: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B071VP8...ct_details
Ok that's what I expected.

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Quote from Chingu808 :
For me I just use the USB ports on my 4K TV. They play all the H264 & H265 MKV K-Drama episodes I have in my collection.
I have a number of problems with this scenario. A couple of my older displays (Sony A1E and Z9D) the built-in android is slow and too much trouble to bother with. Also, the USB ports on the TV's are too high up, so external HDDs with their short cords have nowhere to rest. They can't just dangle. Also, it is a major pain trying to even see where to plug in the USB's on TVs as they are in the back of the TV, and it's all black back there and hard to see in low light. It is easy to access the ports on the Shield and have a place for the HDD to rest. I don't think I would like having to use the TV remote either to run the built-in apps.
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