2017 Nvidia Shield

dodzy wrote: »

ye got that right, it’s a rip-off. And in terms of peace of mind, Amazon are better than anyone to deal with if issues arise imo.

And whatever it's 'loaded' with can no doubt be easily sourced for free online. Android TV is just Android - it's not exactly difficult to install whatever you want.

This reminds me of the recent Snes minis, which people were buying and using the free online tools to 'hack' and add additional games, before trying to sell on as 'fully loaded' at a ridiculous mark-up. This kind of practice needs to be stamped out imo.

Anyway - back to the shield. Loving mine at the moment. Only issue I'm having is that Android OS cannot seem to be able to find my network storage (smb). Apps which use their own file explorers can see it just fine (such as Kodi), but Plex can't, which is annoying as I'm hoping to use the Shield as my media server.

Tinder Surprise wrote: »

Try turning off location services

That was already off so what I ended up doing was setting up a UK billing address in my Google payments account and all was ok re watching Amazon prime. However my Google store was changed to sterling so I had to delete that UK billing address and reset my Google play store account so I was back paying through yoyos.

So no more issues re watching Amazon prime and play store is as normal.

Akula wrote: »

Do you need a VPN to get prime working? Or do you just get the limited international selection?

It needs the VPN to get all the programming available else it's as you intimate.

Craigels wrote: »

Looking to purchase the NVIDIA Shield 2017 purely for Kodi not Interested in the gaming aspect. Is the amazon deal the best as of today to purchase?

Its your money but Shield just for Kodi is over kill.
Mi box for about half the price will do a good job and is also Android TV.

Craigels wrote: »

Looking to purchase the NVIDIA Shield 2017 purely for Kodi not Interested in the gaming aspect. Is the amazon deal the best as of today to purchase?

I did the same, but will explore it's other uses over time when I get a chance - looking forward to that! The Amazon price is the best I've seen to be honest, don't think you'll find better than that to be honest....

About €65 for a half hours work.I would be deleting that lads number asap.

Craigels wrote: »

Will I order from amazon or their website its self? I don't think I will need the game pad so I will order with out it... I use a keyboard remote at the moment with my minix uh 9 can I do that with this box?

I'd order from Amazon because of the customer service.
I had to RMA a gtx 970 with nvidia about 18 months ago and while it wasn't the worst experience Amazon are far better for stuff like that. Any issue they'll send out a new box straight away and give you a prepaid label to return the other within 30 days.

Shlippery wrote: »

the voice search works, but the full google assistant that you controls your smart home a la google home only works with region set to us!

@moonboy, my iplayer disappears on the region change, so I guess I'll have to sideload the iPlayer app!

iPlayer does indeed work with vpn though, so that's great !

Can you explain how I get iplayer to work using vpn please

Oat23 wrote: »

A DNS service is far better than a VPN for the UK services.

Hey I would appreciate it of you could message me with the info please. Thanks for the help

Thrilled with my Shield so far... using it primarily as a IPTV platform and Plex server. The 1st works great and I can access free-to-air channels in Italy/Spain (for me/wife) in near-HD quality with a fantastic interface (stable, reliable, much easier to use than Kodi). The second is working ok but giving me some issues: menus and navigation is excellent but when streaming large Blu-ray rips (H264, 1080, 7-14GB in size) I often get a message saying "the server is not powerful enough to convert this file" and it starts stuttering. The files should be playing without any conversion given the format is perfectly readable by Plex and the NAS is on the same LAN network. If open the file with VLC on the Shield they play without hiccup. Looked all over the internet for a solution (which is common enough) but most forum threads end without people resolving this. Anybody have the same problem?
If it doesnt work I may just go back to using my Macmini as a server but thought the Shield would be more energy efficient and was looking to sell my Macmini if this worked.

The high horse brigade wrote: »

Plex server on the Shield should be well able to stream 3-4 1080p transcodes at the same time. The Nvidia tegra chip is a 256 core GPU and Plex is multi threaded so it should be efficient. Check your client and server settings, don't limit bandwidth and set the client to play original. Transcoding audio causes transcoding of video also so try leave that original too.

I'm watching the videos on the same Plex that is being used as the server. The setting are to play the files as original, no transcoding. Audio is also left as original but I've read on the Plex forums that some audio formats need to be converted so possibly that is the reason. Will check. Thanks for the suggestions

Could I get a link to the best info for setting this up. Mine is on the way from amazon.

corks finest wrote: »

All the usual, plus a little free sub, mostly as I'm a luddite I paid for peace of mind, got several different boxes fir myself and ops from him, any hassle fixes, updates ota etc, figured if something did go wrong, I just hand it back locally, and not wait for weeks for a return etc

So you pay x amount for a little free sub

F me take my monies

OmegaGene wrote: »

On a serious note
Kodi
Plex
Iptv
Job done

What is Plex, I added it to a previous android box but I had no idea how to use it?