2017-01-09, 17:45
(2017-01-09, 14:56)rchads89 Wrote: Yeah i'd also like to see the benefits of going from a amazon fire tv 4k to a nvidia shield . I won't use the shield for anything other than streaming due to having a xbox one for gaming on.Well, the ShieldTV can act as a Plex server, including transcoding. That's extremely cool.
Beyond that, for streaming video purposes only, there are no real advantages for the ShieldTV over the FireTV. It does have the real YouTube app, which is better than the HTML5 frontend on the FireTV, but that works OK for me.
For Kodi purposes, the ShieldTV is the primary platform for SPMC development and thus will always be the best android platform. That mostly entails nitpicky stuff like 23.976Hz, variable refresh rates, etc, but if you care about those sorts of things the ShieldTV is clearly a better solution.
It's true that the ShieldTV is literally over twice the cost of the FireTV2, and you don't get a lot more for that money. But we're only talking about $100 so you may not actually care, and just want to get the best solution period. That's the ShieldTV.
