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Nah, don't bother trying, just leave the shield in its box

I'm actually considering putting it back in the box and returning it. It's powerful, games play well, but Kodi experience is frustrating (MPEG2 namely, VC-1 less than ideal, crashing) and box itself has issues (namely Android TV being less than Amazon's Fire TV experience, fewer games/apps, some apps crashing). The HDHomeRun app often crashes when Live TV app is launched, but works okay when launched by itself. Similar behavior with Pluto.tv.

I don't know, I really want to like this thing and it has a lot of potential... and that's the keyword: potential. I went back to Chromebox with OpenELEC in my living room after trying out Shield for 5 days. I'm going to come back late this year or early next I think and see where Shield stands as a media player. Hoping Amazon releases a more powerful Fire TV box with more storage, as even with its walled garden, I feel they provide a better Android-variant TV experience than Google itself.