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<p>I just complete the upgrade of my Front End
to a 4K Nvidia Shield.</p>
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<div>Are there multiple "models" ? I see one on sale at
Amazon/Target for $149 and then Best Buy with $179. Tried
looking at both but none really gives a "model number". <br>
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I ordered from Amazon and I to the model that has the game
controller. </div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>What is the game controller for? I mean if I get the $149 with the shield and remote only, what am I losing out on? </div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> The $149 price is just with the TV remote. I also
wanted to make sure I had the smaller Shield which is the latest
version. I got P2897. The long dimension on the Shield is only ~1"
longer than the TV remote. I got it on sale just after Christmas for
$169. The official name in Amazon is NVIDIA SHIELD TV Gaming Edition
| 4K HDR Streaming Media Player with GeForce NOW.
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<div dir="auto">Thank you. I have been eyeing one
lately since I see them on samjhe a lot. Curious -
if 4K id only via streamed content, is there any
major tipping points to Shield vs say Firestick 4K?
I only ask because that is under <span class="gmail-m_-1744408091308127305gmail-m_5660541468512601335money">$60</span> setup...</div>
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<p>It's plugged into the HDMI port of a UHD
Samsung 4K TV. I have it networked to the
mythtv-backend via GBe cable. But all the
content I have access to for Mythtv is
1080i/720p. I can stream 4K content from a
number of sources but all are thru a service
like Prime Video, etc. I went this way
because of cost and video quality. It's a
perfect frontend for Mythtv-frontend, Kodi,
Sling, ESPN, Prime Video.</p>
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<div>So what I don't get is - if we have a UHD 4K TV that has
say Prime/Netflix/Hulu app on it - why do we need to go via
a FE? Can't we get the "best" pic out directly off the TV
apps? And if so, our only "need" should be to get the best
picture when playing off our Myth, correct? I see a lot of
answers here and other posts referring to Amazon Prime 4K
content - and I am just trying to see what I may be doing or
thinking conceptually wrong in my design. </div>
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<div>My foremost need is to allow my FE to play H.265,
hopefully play any UHD content I may have, and to have the
ability to pass whatever audio it may have without
compressing it. </div>
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<div>It seems that VDPAU won't play 4K but VAAPI and/or VAAPI
2 would at 30 fps? Is that possible with Firestick/Shield? <br>
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<p>Well I think it comes down to use case for your TV watching.
First My Samsung UHD has a few very shitty apps and they are slow
on SlingTV, Hulu, Prime Video, etc. The HDHR view is not very good
for my usage for Live TV. There is also no builtin app for
Mythtv. So I can add another PC/RP3/Shield to do the mythtv
frontend via an HDMI port. With the PC/RP3, I still need a Roki
or FireTV stick to get the streaming services. With the Shield I
get a Mythtv Frontend, and all the Android apps for streaming
services. Mythtv doesn't support 4k yet, neither does SlingTV.
Prime has some 4K. Unless I clean my glasses and stop drinking
bourbon, I can't see the difference between 4k and 1080P.</p>
<p>Not to some audio issues. A lot of this falls on the AVR. Mine
will decode Dobly Digital plus and DTS-HD, but will not pass thru
4k 59.945hz. When I hook up the Shield to the TV it connects at 4k
59.945hz. but when I hook up to the AVR It's 4k 30 or 29.9hz. The
UHD TV can pass the audio back to the AVR via Optical, but only at
DTS Surround 2:5 Neo. So for me it's a compromise on audio or
video or buy all new expensive stuff. Since I own no 4k content,
it's not a problem for me.</p></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Thank you, my Denon will pass through all the choices so I see nVidia supports them in passthrough. I am leaning more and more towards this as a frontend as long as the native myth is working great here. I have Plex/Kodi option already so I am not looking to have any transcoded video as a FE option. I want something native. I have a few H.265 movies and a few UHD movies so I am just trying to weigh in everything before I plunge in. Knowing myself, I will probably use this till black fumes start coming out of those! :)</div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
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