<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Jan 1, 2019 at 6:14 PM James Abernathy <<a href="mailto:jfabernathy@gmail.com">jfabernathy@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div dir="ltr">On Sun, Dec 30, 2018, 6:17 AM James Abernathy
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<p>I just complete the upgrade of my Front End to a 4K
Nvidia Shield.</p></div></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote></div></blockquote><div><br></div><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". </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"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="auto"><div><div class="gmail_quote"><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"><p> </p>
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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_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></div></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote></div></blockquote><div><br></div><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><div><br></div><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><div><br></div><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? </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"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><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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<div dir="auto">Does it play lossless audio? TrueHD, DTS-HD?</div>
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<p>My AVR supports that and I have all the settings turned on, but I
don't know when it's in the TrueHD modes? The Shield is set to
Surround Always which passes thru any audio. I just hope my UHD
TV sends those sames signals out the optical cable.</p>
<p>I don't have a 4K FireTV, but spec wise the Shield is better and
it has more CPU power and GPU power. The Shield produces the best
picture I've seen for Prime Video(4K), SlingTV and is as good a
Mythtv-frontend as I have. My preview best FE was a Core i7 with
a Nvidia GT710 card. The Shield cost about the same as my video
cost me at the time.</p>
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<p> As an added benefit it's a very good gaming
platform, but that's based on an old guys opinion who
rarely games. My son things it's pretty good, but he's
a slave to the PC gaming experience.</p>
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