Cheapest price for it since ebay discount but that expired very quickly. This is a good alternative for Christmas
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datalossfs
24 Oct 156#4
A Crazy amount processing power and graphics performance for a ARM Chip. To get the best from Nvidia Gamestream (Modern GTX Card 600 series or above required) or Geforce Now you need good wired ethernet reaching the box (not powerline adapters). Wi Fi on mine is rather weak and it can't see my 5Ghz channel at all unless I take it upstairs. It's a fantastic emulation box for the TV though even Dreamcast & Gamecube emulation is possible though not 100% yet.
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pelaquin
24 Oct 152#1
Good price, but to stream games you'll need around 30mbps, and obviously to benefit from the 4k streaming you'll need a 4K T.V, otherwise a great piece of kit, you can load all the emulators on them, megadrive, dreamcast, psp, snes the lot, and it recently had the Iplayers added to them in the last update, but I think unless you got the broadband speed for it and a 4K T.V you're better off with something else.
robertr to pelaquin
24 Oct 15#7
It wipes the floor with other streaming boxes/sticks in every way.
ayaz51
24 Oct 151#2
as someone who owns one. you don't need 4k. it's a fantastic device that wipes the floor with all other android tvs. only bad point is the OS is pretty locked.
Bendown to ayaz51
24 Oct 15#3
What does it offer more than android box?
datalossfs
24 Oct 156#4
A Crazy amount processing power and graphics performance for a ARM Chip. To get the best from Nvidia Gamestream (Modern GTX Card 600 series or above required) or Geforce Now you need good wired ethernet reaching the box (not powerline adapters). Wi Fi on mine is rather weak and it can't see my 5Ghz channel at all unless I take it upstairs. It's a fantastic emulation box for the TV though even Dreamcast & Gamecube emulation is possible though not 100% yet.
ayaz51
24 Oct 151#5
took the words right out of my mouth. plus kodi will run a hell of a lot smoother
ayaz51
24 Oct 15#6
but to be fair to get the best out of wifi you should get 2 power ful routers and run them bridged. I have the ac68u and have nothing wired anymore.
chinstroker
24 Oct 152#8
Gagging to get one despite the tablet being so poorly made. Knowing i could have got one for 125 via the ebay discount the other day has ruined this though. Will wait to see if they do a black friday deal again this yr.
Vegeta to chinstroker
24 Oct 15#16
I got one via the eBay deal. Ended up costing £117 with the 20% discount, 1% TCB and 6x Nectar Points bonus.
pelaquin
24 Oct 151#9
The point was if you dont have a 4k, super fast broadband and only stream netflix and media you can spend 6x as less and get a new chromecast, a roku box or sideload plex onto a £9.99 Now T.V box and save over a £100 quid, don't get me wrong I want one of these too, and I'm **** I missed out on the Ebay deal to get one the other day, but for the average streamer you'd be better off with a new chromecast.
Roger_Irrelevant
24 Oct 15#10
Is this the thing where you can play PC games on your computer upstairs and it sends the video/sound to TV downstairs?
das5665 to Roger_Irrelevant
24 Oct 15#11
Yes but it also allows you to stream from a powerful PC located elsewhere to play games even better as long as you have a suitable internet connection
crazygoldfish to Roger_Irrelevant
25 Oct 15#40
Wait a few weeks and buy a steam link for £40 to stream games.
Steam link works with any gfx card, unlike the shield that requires gfx cards.
Or if you have a fire tv or android device install moonlight. And spend nothing !
thingswelike
24 Oct 15#12
I currently use WDTV and Popcornhour.
Are there any downsides to Sheild vs these?
Any holes in the format support or subtitle support for example?
Ungreat to thingswelike
25 Oct 15#30
Someone earlier mentioned Kodi on it which is essentially XBMC.
I have a Minix X8-H, a different brand of Android TV box, running Kodi and it works flawlessly. Much better than the WDTV players I had that seemed to struggle with some file-types lately.
fattyuk
24 Oct 151#13
You literally dont know what this is if your trying to compare it all of those,
can any of them run crysis?
didnt think so
pelaquin
24 Oct 15#14
I know exactly what it can do, if you read my post you would see it says if you ONLY stream media i.e videos then you would be better off buying something less expensive, and to run Crysis you'll need as stated on the Nvidia website 30mpbs, something I also mentioned, and I never compared any other device to the shield on running games lol.
fattyuk
24 Oct 15#15
ah right i didnt realise you was just pointing out the fact that this piece of hardware isnt aimed at a certain consumer when its not even aimed towards them.
That's not an independent comparison tho so take some claims with a pinch of salt. Still a great set top box tho.
monkeysexboy
25 Oct 15#18
Got one of these and they are brilliant worth more tbh and run kodi fantastic too
jnalepa
25 Oct 15#19
The best streamer/media player I've had and it won't be replaced for a long while....
dkwookies
25 Oct 15#20
I bought one on Friday, cant wait for it to arrive. I snagged it for 100 at Cash Generator in mint. Its selling second hand on CEX for 170! Cant work that one out... https://uk.webuy.com/product.php?sku=850438005838#.ViywfhFOcko
Anyway, awesome deal. Check out this thing running Doom 3 BFG edition and War Thunder natively for an idea of why its in a different league to those other set top boxes. Digital Foundry reckon the GPU is a stripped down GTX 950m, same card just with a third of the execution units.
myjess
25 Oct 15#21
I have to pay for the games on my roku3. Do I have to pay for them with this?
Gamer_U
25 Oct 15#23
Did someone just comment about emulation? But isn't that illegal? Oh, we're doomed! :disappointed:
the porter
25 Oct 15#24
expired ebuyer cheapest price now
das5665 to the porter
25 Oct 151#44
It hasn't expired yet.
brookysm
25 Oct 15#25
Nothing illegal at all about emulation!
robertr
25 Oct 15#26
So what claims are incorrect?
brookysm
25 Oct 15#27
Performance figures are from just one benchmarker, WiFi is subjective, apps are cherry picked, console standard quality games is a vague claim. I'm not saying the box is poor just that the claims are a bit pie in the sky.
mackashworth
25 Oct 15#28
If you're just looking to stream games from a PC, definitely look into the Steam Link. Fantastic device and cheap, too.
mikeyrobbo
25 Oct 15#29
Measly 16gb
Gamer_U
25 Oct 15#31
That was sarcasm. I suppose British comedy doesn't use too well for folks to know.
brookysm
25 Oct 15#32
Kodi isn't essentially XBMC it is exactly XBMC, they renamed it!
brookysm
25 Oct 15#33
It helps if the comment was actually humorous in the 1st place....
roddy768
25 Oct 15#34
these will be around 100 quid come Christmas
subway to roddy768
25 Oct 15#39
I hope so but I very much doubt it.
Gamer_U
25 Oct 15#35
Sarcasm doesn't have to be humorous. It's what subtle comedy is all about.
merkin51
25 Oct 15#36
Is it possible to use the android Sky Go app on this?
brookysm to merkin51
25 Oct 15#37
Nope, Sky only allows apps on PS3/4 and xboxes to work on TV's for some weird reason.
crazygoldfish
25 Oct 15#38
Good price , heat given even though it's a shield product and will either fall apart or the exclusive games never appear .
datalossfs to crazygoldfish
25 Oct 15#41
It's pretty well made for change, but the ones with Hard Drives had some issues. I do agree it needs more native games and apps too (Android TV app wise is still pretty bare compared to North America)
dkwookies to crazygoldfish
25 Oct 15#42
That's the only issue is Nvidias habit of launching with promise of games that never appear. The Shield Portable was advertised with Hawken and it never appeared (They even played it onstage at the lauch event ffs) then War Thunder was promised for the Shield Tablet and never showed, when it finally did it is exclusive to the Shield TV! Theres some current confusion over Borderlands Pre Sequel. It was promised as bonus free for 500gb buyers but hasn't arrived. Someone asked Nvidia about it and they said to speak to Gearbox as they are porting it and Gearbox said its nothing to do with them, they gave the source code to Nvidia for them to port it...crazy
crazygoldfish
25 Oct 15#43
There is also the nvidias feature breaking updates , the shield tablet was a joke, the shield hub would get worse with each update.
the porter
25 Oct 15#45
My bad correct it hasn't
ranja81
25 Oct 15#46
You can only use two hard drives on these which is annoying. Bought one to replace my windows 7 KODI box but have 4 drives feeding that so is a no no so it's going back. Is really annoying that they don't advertise that.
fattyuk to ranja81
25 Oct 15#47
So is it no good for your gaming? what games have you tried on it?
as ya know this is a gaming streaming box
ranja81
25 Oct 15#48
Why are you trying to start an argument and be so defensive. I wanted a box that could do both which this is capable of. It's just a shame nvidia didn't allow it's USB ports to take more than two drives.
crazygoldfish
25 Oct 15#49
The other cracker is when they released half life 2 and episode 1 for the shield tablet and then made episode 2 an exclusive for the shield tv.
dkwookies
25 Oct 15#50
I often think Nvidia are like some mad science company. They produce the most amazing graphics cards but cant be relied on as a company? I had 3 Shield Tablets. I bought one at launch and 2 cheap second hand (don't ask why). All three had defective batteries so had to go through the recall scheme. Nvidia sent me 5 replacements all in separate boxes, all with separate return to destroy boxes. I guess the extra 2 were loyalty bonuses? I have so much cardboard from Nvidia its going to take 2 months to get it done by the blue bin
But still I want a Shield TV because they make cutting edge stuff I forgive them every time!
mark6226
25 Oct 15#51
£149 on Amazon
das5665 to mark6226
25 Oct 15#52
Cool
jasonmpearson5
8 Dec 15#53
hi...I new to this. ..I really fancy one of those boxes ...I have fiber browband I got 76mbps speed ....I using power plugs ...is it still worth getting ?
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Steam link works with any gfx card, unlike the shield that requires gfx cards.
Or if you have a fire tv or android device install moonlight. And spend nothing !
Are there any downsides to Sheild vs these?
Any holes in the format support or subtitle support for example?
I have a Minix X8-H, a different brand of Android TV box, running Kodi and it works flawlessly. Much better than the WDTV players I had that seemed to struggle with some file-types lately.
can any of them run crysis?
didnt think so
edit : ive got 150 mbps so im sorted :smiley:
http://shield.nvidia.com/android-tv/shield-androidtv-vs-appletv-vs-roku-vs-firetv
https://uk.webuy.com/product.php?sku=850438005838#.ViywfhFOcko
Anyway, awesome deal. Check out this thing running Doom 3 BFG edition and War Thunder natively for an idea of why its in a different league to those other set top boxes. Digital Foundry reckon the GPU is a stripped down GTX 950m, same card just with a third of the execution units.
as ya know this is a gaming streaming box
But still I want a Shield TV because they make cutting edge stuff I forgive them every time!