Should I putchase a 4-year-old nVidia TV Pro, another technology, or wait for next Gen?
It's my birthday, and I want the upscaling, the single platform, the flexibility (sailing the high seas), but it's soooo old. $200? IDK
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Honestly, for running jellyfin/emby/plex, there's nothing better. The only thing an update might get you would be higher refresh rates or maybe 8k support, but for watching video, who cares?
Once I disabled the built-in "leanback" launcher with its fucking toxic ads and replaced it with flauncher, it's been essentially perfect for watching media. flauncher is fugly as hell but it stays out of my face, unlike google's ad-focused launcher.
AV1 is missing from the current shield and would be great to have as part of an updated model.
I honestly haven't found much being encoded with AV1, there being almost no GPUs that can transcode it probably doesn't help.
YouTube's default codec is AV1 and Netflix supports it too
I meant more on the seven seas. I currently don't have a need to be able to transcode AV1 on my mediaserver
HLG, AV1, QMS, VP9 Profile 2 (YouTube HDR) and faster menus would make me want to upgrade from my 2017 Shield as that'd improve watching videos.
Ikr..I wish shield had an app only mode like the new Chromecast has.
Thank you so much for the FLauncher tip! I like it much more than the default Home Screen
I'm currently running Kodi on my Xbox with Jellycon to stream from a Jellyfin server.
I'd be genuinely curious how this is better.
I run Moonlight, SmartTube, Jellyfin, and Stremio on mine and it's a beast.