expiredjimsgrandma posted Oct 10, 2023 07:11 AM
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expiredjimsgrandma posted Oct 10, 2023 07:11 AM
NVIDIA SHIELD Android TV Pro Streaming Media Player; 4K HDR movies, live sports, Dolby Vision-Atmos, AI-enhanced upscaling, GeForce NOW cloud gaming, Google Assistant Bui - $169.99
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Is there a guide for this?
The new Android TV v9 updates have been a disaster, particularly for audio but also the newly introduced intrusive advertisements and telemetry.
Google has taken over the Nvidia Shield in a big way.
The latest Shield I set up, I rolled the OS back to v8.23 and installed a custom launcher (FLauncher - open source) to avoid the banner ads. It works --perfectly-- for every codec. This takes some work the first time. It took me 2+ hours on power shell / command prompt to 1. roll back OS to v8 and 2. make FLauncher the default launcher. The last time I spent that much time typing in command prompt was when my router bricked after an update. I could probably do it in less than an hour now that I've had that experience.
If you are watching local files from NAS, network, attached USB drive.. the Shield is unbeatable. Of course it also works fine with the usual Android TV apps. I still don't see how firestick or apple tv are actual competition if you use local files. If all one does is stream services, then of course, get a roku/firestick or similar.
I can't imagine paying $200 for old tech when two better cheaper faster options exist (AppleTV if you don't need Atmos, FireTV Cube if you do).
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FireTV Cube 3rd gen does passthrough audio from plex including DolbyHD Atmos. It's the only reason the Cube is in my living room right now and my shiny new Apple TV 4k 2nd gen is in the basement. The Apple TV is faster, cleaner, no ads, and overall better but it transcodes the audio into 6 channel and loses the atmos data and they don't plan on fixing that. If the Apple TV did passthrough it would be the clear winner.
I can't imagine paying $200 for old tech when two better cheaper faster options exist (AppleTV if you don't need Atmos, FireTV Cube if you do).
The shield can also do dolbyhd atmos.
I can't imagine paying for an overpriced fire stick just because its in cube form.
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Never had a problem with an update. All three work great. The AI upscaling on this 2019 model is so good I set my maxres on youtube to 480p and forgot about it for 3 weeks before I thought an image was a little fuzzy.
You may in fact install an older version from flash drive if you have a problem with an update.
All that having been said, while its still the performance king for android streamers, its basically the same thing with an old cpu and a maxwell gpu. It really needs an update. And nvidia has silicon that'd make for an excellent Shield v4. It's slated to go into the next Nintendo Switch.
But...Nvidia has already made some noises about high end gaming gpu's not being in their future because they make so much more selling AI products. So a niche product like this may just be uninteresting to them.
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