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 Plusādelivering 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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If you can't tell the difference between HDR content and SDR content your TV is either broken, crap, or you are visually impaired
You said "if in another room in your house, the plex server will be running in background on the shield pro to stream to another TV at the same time as well."
You need a client on that tv in that other room, right? How is the video getting to the tv in the other room? And that client in the other room has to be an Nvidia shield pro to get the lossless audio from the plex server, regardless of what kind of server (PC, etc), right?
I guess my question is must you have an Nvidia shield pro as the plex server (say sitting on a shelf in your office) to get lossless audio on the client (which must also be a shield pro) in you living room?
My other question is why would someone want a shield pro vs a pc they they already have that can remotely transcode with no issues?
So, if you decide to use the Nvidia Shield Pro to run the Plex Server feature, it's just an option if you don't to have a PC on all the time and have a smaller footprint with just the Shield Pro and say 1 or 2 external hard drives attached to it.
Use a PC to run the Plex Server if you want to transcode to share with family & friends outside your home network though.
Yes, you do need a Plex app on another device in another room to receive media.
The media is getting delivered via your home network (wifi or ethernet) to whatever smart device (another Shield Pro or PS5) running Plex app, and yes, this is another client.
Now in room 2, yes, in order to get lossless, you will need a Shield Pro (or a PS5) that can receive the lossless bitstream being delivered with the movie file and send it to an AVR to decode.
If sound is coming out of the TV, then lossless won't matter....the audio coming out of the speakers will be lossy.
For lossless, the Shield Pro must be HDMI connected to an AVR or high end surround bar to decode lossless in any room.
Let me know if you have more questions.
If you can't tell the difference between HDR content and SDR content your TV is either broken, crap, or you are visually impaired
If you can't tell the difference between HDR content and SDR content your TV is either broken, crap, or you are visually impaired
If you can't tell the difference between HDR content and SDR content your TV is either broken, crap, or you are visually impaired
Majority who care for HDR want it delivered via their movies.
And Shield Pro supports Dolby Vision HDR.
My point, which you're confusing, is that non-HDR content still looks fantastic to majority of people. One app not supporting does not limit the device at all...yet you're stangely nit picking on Youtube HDR as an issue when it's a non-issue for 99.9A% of users. No one else cares.
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So much for the Shield being so capable! Why can't Kodi or VLC play these UHD HDR files properly on Shield? Can anyone else get these to play properly?
I used 4K Video Downloader free version to save the files from YT to my PC. I chose MP4 AV01 AAC
These files play fine and smooth when I plug them in directly to my Sony TV, and use the built-in media player app.
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But the Shield Pro chokes on these HDR files and can't play them properly. So I cannot agree with all this talk about the hardware still being good enough after all these years.
To get me to drop $170 for another Shield (I already have a 2015 and 2019 version) they would need to make 4K HDR VP9.2 and AV1 files play properly without choking.
I might pick up another for $100, but not for $170.
Seems like either the chipset/hardware is showing its age, or they don't want to take the time to optimize the software properly.
If Youtube HDR is your only meaning to a happy life, then that's your use case and you alone in this world. No one else cares about Youtube HDR practically speaking.
Majority who care for HDR want it delivered via their movies.
And Shield Pro supports Dolby Vision HDR.
My point, which you're confusing, is that non-HDR content still looks fantastic to majority of people. One app not supporting does not limit the device at all...yet you're stangely nit picking on Youtube HDR as an issue when it's a non-issue for 99.9A% of users. No one else cares.
Then when you point out all the things it can't do, the predictable response is to rationalize why that feature don't matter. Shield fanboys are free to do that, that's a matter of opinion.
That doesn't change facts though.
I was only correcting your misinformed statement about it being a software issue on YouTube's end, and not a hardware deficiency on the Shields end.
And you seem to like to use statistics that are clearly pulled from thin air like
"Youtube HDR as an issue when it's a non-issue for 99.9A% of users"
"HDR is a controversial topic in itself for me...99% wouldn't be able to identify HDR."
So forgive us if we are skeptical that you are some hot shot Hollywood film producer for the last 20 years, or whatever resume-padding / non-confirmable story you are pedaling to sell your point of view and link to credible sources if you are going to say things that sound ridiculous or conspiratorial, like HDR is all a lie, don't believe your eyes.
And you seem to like to use statistics that are clearly pulled from thin air like
"Youtube HDR as an issue when it's a non-issue for 99.9A% of users"
"HDR is a controversial topic in itself for me...99% wouldn't be able to identify HDR."
So forgive us if we are skeptical that you are some hot shot Hollywood film producer for the last 20 years, or whatever resume-padding / non-confirmable story you are pedaling to sell your point of view and link to credible sources if you are going to say things that sound ridiculous or conspiratorial, like HDR is all a lie, don't deliver your eyes.
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Then when you point out all the things it can't do, the predictable response is to rationalize why that feature don't matter. Shield fanboys are free to do that, that's a matter of opinion.
That doesn't change facts though.
I was only correcting your misinformed statement about it being a software issue on YouTube's end, and not a hardware deficiency on the Shields end.