Anybody got the Nvidia Shield TV? Thinking of Bushesing this Fire Tv

[jwinfield]

Buddy of mine was telling us about it earlier. Looks interesting but not sure what the benefits are. I have a 4k firestick i got over the summer. My moms wanted me to get her one since the previous gen one I gave her has an issue with the remote. So I was thinking maybe I'll look into this and give her my firestick. But can this thing even run Kodi and is there anything special about it? Does this have for gaming also?

I upgraded from the non-4k firestick to the older version of the Shield.

It runs Kodi. Since it's an android box, it updates automatically so you don't have to worry about keeping up to date with Kodi. It's just a bigger, faster, more powerful firestick if you're using it for streaming.

 

[Golayitdown]

I upgraded from the non-4k firestick to the older version of the Shield.

It runs Kodi. Since it's an android box, it updates automatically so you don't have to worry about keeping up to date with Kodi. It's just a bigger, faster, more powerful firestick if you're using it for streaming.

It doesn’t have the amazon OS (in favor of vanilla Android TV) on it so it’s a major upgrade on that front too.

 

[Rayzah]

FYI, I copped a shield and my fire boxes are in the deepest section of the bushes

yo, I had one on my amazon wish lise for a few years, I could never justify it because I have apple tv4k and a 4k firestick.. I finally got one for xmas........ Top five pieces of electronics in my entire house... it does everything all my other devices do, and I can stream games from my gaming pc to my living room so I can play on the couch.. This thing is severely underrated.. and it came with a remote and controller, everything synced up flawlessly, I may never use my apple tv again

 

[Rayzah]

Im about to tell me apple tv, I think we need to take a "break" I need some time to get my life in order.. then say we can still be friends

 

[Golayitdown]

yo, I had one on my amazon wish lise for a few years, I could never justify it because I have apple tv4k and a 4k firestick.. I finally got one for xmas........ Top five pieces of electronics in my entire house... it does everything all my other devices do, and I can stream games from my gaming pc to my living room so I can play on the couch.. This thing is severely underrated.. and it came with a remote and controller, everything synced up flawlessly, I may never use my apple tv again

I have 3 and they’re still amazing.

 

[Rayzah]

I have 3 and they’re still amazing.

damn so you replaced all of your smart devices with one

 

[duncanthetall]

yo, I had one on my amazon wish lise for a few years, I could never justify it because I have apple tv4k and a 4k firestick.. I finally got one for xmas........ Top five pieces of electronics in my entire house... it does everything all my other devices do, and I can stream games from my gaming pc to my living room so I can play on the couch.. This thing is severely underrated.. and it came with a remote and controller, everything synced up flawlessly, I may never use my apple tv again

Man....been trying to justify getting one. How is the lag when using it to stream games from your PC? That’s my main worry

 

[Rayzah]

Man....been trying to justify getting one. How is the lag when using it to stream games from your PC? That’s my main worry

depending on your router and the setup, wifi in general is always sketchy, but if you hard wire the pc and hard wire the shield it should be flawless

I played around with it for about 30 minutes and the lag was minor, my router setup is trash, we all share bandwith in this building and the walls are concrete and not drywall so it fukks with the wifi... and even still the games play pretty smooth

 

[Golayitdown]

damn so you replaced all of your smart devices with one

Yep. Took a long ass time, but i did. I started off years ago with random Android TV devices then I moved on to Fire TVs. Then I got a shield for my bedroom and it was all downhill from there. Just put a shield in my son’s room last week.

I had to put it in his room because the Fire TVs have shytty parental controls (which are only necessary for the bullshyt Amazon added to the OS).

 

[shutterguy]

Late pass, just picked up a Shield TV Pro for the home theater. This thing is the ultimate streamer, blows my 4k blu-ray player streaming capabilities out of the water.

4K HDR

Dolby Atmos

3GB Ram

Android OS

Might have to get a 2nd one for the bedroom a/v collection.

 

[winb83]

I got one in the bedroom a 2019 model and a 2017 model in the living room. Love them both. I hardly ever use my Roku Ultra anymore.