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And still no updated Shield TV. 😭
I mean, one of the core ideas behind these things is that these are highly capable devices that are receiving updates for several times as long as normal tech, so you can just keep using them for ages.
Apart from the very latest codecs, what else should they do that they aren't already doing?
What's missing in the shield? I have a gen 1 and it still plays anything I throw at it. High bitrate HDR 4k video etc.
I believe its missing h265 and av1 hardware support and while it probably has enough performance to handle those codecs in software, I wasn't willing to drop more than 100 euros on a 5 year old device without hardware decoding for them
That's untrue. I specifically bought it for h265 decoding. Which it does have in hardware. I play h265 content exclusively and never had an issue. Even 80~100mbps blue ray UHD rips. And because it has gigabit ethernet there's never any buffering issues either from my NAS.
Ah, I guess I was only looking at AV1 support in that case. I only remembered it was missing something I wanted due to its age
I got most of my Plex library on h265 and there is no problem with my shield,
Nothing is missing - but mine's 5 years old and I want to make sure it can be replaced before it finally dies.
Even first gen ones from 2015 are still being used. I don't think these die all that often. They will be obsolete at some point, but even this takes far longer than with other tech. As long as you make sure it doesn't overheat, it should last for a while longer.
Yeah, I was surprised there were still lots of people using the 2015 version. It's a good sign so hopefully mine will be good for a long while still.