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Review: NVIDIA Shield TV 2019
A few months ago Nvidia released the 2019 version of the NVIDIA Shield TV in an all-new design and remote. The streaming box that allows for a multitude of functionality as it properly takes over your Smart-TV experience. NVIDIA updated the SoC and added some AI image-enhancing features as well as offering a new remote control.
Read our full review here.
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#5772487 Posted on: 03/23/2020 05:10 PM
hi owner of the original first gen shield pro 500gb model and the new 2019 pro model (not the tube model reviewed here)
the only thing i really dislike with ALL the shield devices is the "walled playstore" experience...
i mean it does not support all the apps i'm used to using on my other devices (phone and tablet).
they should add a full "normal" playstore with the disclaimer that a lot of apps won't work 100% as intended...
simply to give users the freedom to try all the apps they want...
instead i am forced to use dubious workaround methods to sideload the apps i really want to use.
one example was the DamonPS2 Pro app (a ps2 emulator, just to see how well it functions on a shield pro)
to me that is the only real downside to ALL the nvidia shield devices...
This is something that Google foisted on us by the creation of the Android TV subcategory of devices. Instead of forcing developers to create universal apps that work well on normal Android devices and Android TV devices, they basically split the developer pool in two by introducing these specific categories.
And for Android TV there is support necessary for controllers and such because they don't have a touch interface. But this could have easily been incorporated in the normal development framework. Instead Google decided that because the way you interact with a large TV device is different from how you interact with a phone/tablet, the entire design of apps for such use should be different. And so developers have to write extra code for Android TV apps.
Now as a developer you can create a unified app that would work on all device categories (maybe excluding Android Wear), you just need to add the Android TV specific screen designs and UI handling code to your app. But most developers aren't interested in adding support for Android TV (they deem the install base to small to justify the effort).
So we are left with the apps that are specifically created for the Android TV platform or contain support inside for Android TV.
You can't really blame NVIDIA for this, because when they decided to create the Shield TV they probably were talked into it by all the Google PR people promising that they would launch and support Android TV in a big way. And especially in the early days that really didn't come to pass.
hi owner of the original first gen shield pro 500gb model and the new 2019 pro model (not the tube model reviewed here)
the only thing i really dislike with ALL the shield devices is the "walled playstore" experience...
i mean it does not support all the apps i'm used to using on my other devices (phone and tablet).
they should add a full "normal" playstore with the disclaimer that a lot of apps won't work 100% as intended...
simply to give users the freedom to try all the apps they want...
instead i am forced to use dubious workaround methods to sideload the apps i really want to use.
one example was the DamonPS2 Pro app (a ps2 emulator, just to see how well it functions on a shield pro)
to me that is the only real downside to ALL the nvidia shield devices...
This is something that Google foisted on us by the creation of the Android TV subcategory of devices. Instead of forcing developers to create universal apps that work well on normal Android devices and Android TV devices, they basically split the developer pool in two by introducing these specific categories.
And for Android TV there is support necessary for controllers and such because they don't have a touch interface. But this could have easily been incorporated in the normal development framework. Instead Google decided that because the way you interact with a large TV device is different from how you interact with a phone/tablet, the entire design of apps for such use should be different. And so developers have to write extra code for Android TV apps.
Now as a developer you can create a unified app that would work on all device categories (maybe excluding Android Wear), you just need to add the Android TV specific screen designs and UI handling code to your app. But most developers aren't interested in adding support for Android TV (they deem the install base to small to justify the effort).
So we are left with the apps that are specifically created for the Android TV platform or contain support inside for Android TV.
You can't really blame NVIDIA for this, because when they decided to create the Shield TV they probably were talked into it by all the Google PR people promising that they would launch and support Android TV in a big way. And especially in the early days that really didn't come to pass.
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#5774033 Posted on: 03/27/2020 09:51 PM
On other hand, if you link a NAS, it is the same thing and more convenient solution, as usable from phone, computer, game system etc etc
If you really need more storage there is the Pro version that have kept the extra storage and have more memory too... and is a bit more expensive.
Especially with Android devices size of internal storage matters.
On other hand, if you link a NAS, it is the same thing and more convenient solution, as usable from phone, computer, game system etc etc
If you really need more storage there is the Pro version that have kept the extra storage and have more memory too... and is a bit more expensive.
Especially with Android devices size of internal storage matters.
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hi owner of the original first gen shield pro 500gb model and the new 2019 pro model (not the tube model reviewed here)
the newer 2019 pro one is faster in the os, everything feels smoother.
it is a lot smaller compared to the first gen nvidia schield TV.
the new remote handles way better (great ergonomic yet very simple design with the triangle shape)
the remote works with regular batteries and that in itself is a big plus to me...
(always replacable, even if you use rechargable ones)
obvious newer android version AND dolby vision AND atmos support etc...
on the 2019 model the AI upscaling works rather well altough i disable it most of the time
(it's only a nice gimmick to me and not a decisive reason to buy one or to upgrade to the new model)
i just needed an extra media player that is a bit future proof so i bought the one best suited to my needs...
the tube model does not support 64bit apps (like the dolphin emulator as example) the pro 2019 does support 64 bit apps...
this fact along with the 2 usb ports on the pro model and the extra Gb of RAM was why i bought the pro model over the tube shaped non pro...
the only thing i really dislike with ALL the shield devices is the "walled playstore" experience...
i mean it does not support all the apps i'm used to using on my other devices (phone and tablet).
they should add a full "normal" playstore with the disclaimer that a lot of apps won't work 100% as intended...
simply to give users the freedom to try all the apps they want...
instead i am forced to use dubious workaround methods to sideload the apps i really want to use.
one example was the DamonPS2 Pro app (a ps2 emulator, just to see how well it functions on a shield pro)
to me that is the only real downside to ALL the nvidia shield devices...