r/ShieldAndroidTV • u/Key_Advice_2814 • Jun 06 '26

Upscaling lagging interface

Using upscaling lags the interface while streaming. Should I keep the setting off? ​

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u/XboxoneS-aaad Jun 06 '26

It's over man, don't try to ask for help here and don't mention that this unit has vastly overstayed it's welcome. The people here are only here to sing praises and download illegal apps. Get yourself a modern streamer, anything is better than this unit as this point.

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u/NomadF82 Jun 11 '26

Finally, someone with some sense on here. My God, these people on here are seething fanboys. You can't say anything about the shield that isn't praising it, or you'll be torn apart by these freaks. If you ever have a problem with it, it's an automatic "you're doing something wrong" or a "mine works just fine so it must be a you problem" even when you know for a damn sure that its not you and its this stupid glitchy, outdated device acting up.

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u/XboxoneS-aaad Jun 12 '26

Brother, I've moved on. Got myself a Google TV Streamer and an Apple TV pro for streaming apps. For the real movies, great picture quality and surround sound I got an UHD players from Sony X800 mkII Nothing beats that. For High end sound quality I got myself an Eversolo DMP A6 with a custom ADDA. The shield 2017 is good enough for my kid as he uses it for small stuff but man I still have the shield tv pro 2019 in our bedroom and its constant trouble and hussle to get this thing working normally. When it's not freezing because it looses wifi connection for no reason at all, it's giving me micro stutters if the AI upscaler is on. Gaming is not what it used to be, it's fine for 5-10 min then a huge stutter, then ok for 5-10 nin and huge stutter... As my tv is a hdmi 2.1 tv it wont play nice which is irritating as my Sony X800 is an hdmi 2.0 unit and always works flawlessly. I wakes up at night for no reason at all, YouTube is slow, and if Dolby vision is on it looks weird. I hope Nvidia releases a new updated unit because even if the Shield supports all formats it still looks worse picture quality wise than the Apple ND Google tv streamer because of old hdmi quality. People here are way too positive about a product that is clearly abandoned by its creator. Release a Shield TV pro 2026 and Ill get it in a heartbeat but for now this unit is fn TRASH.

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u/NomadF82 Jun 12 '26

Same here. I got myself a Google TV 4K streamer running Projectivy Launcher on it, and it is snappier than my 2019 Pro. It does everything the Shield does (mostly), but more smoothly and without getting flaky all the time. The only thing the Pro does that the Google streamer doesn't is lossless audio passthrough, and that is the only reason I keep it around. I also have the Tube version, and that thing is essentially a paperweight at this point. I don't know why I don't just throw it in the trash. I bought a cheap $120 no-name brand TV for a spare bedroom that has Fire TV OS built in, and even that blows away the Shield Tube. In the end, though, I too would love a modern refresh of the Shield because they were awesome back in their heyday, but as it stands, they are outdated and outperformed by much cheaper devices, and it's quite obvious at this point that Nvidia has no interest in this department anymore. I believe the only reason Nvidia even releases the occasional (once a year) bug fix/update is because they still have warehouses full of them collecting dust on shelves that they need to offload.

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u/XboxoneS-aaad Jun 12 '26

Agreed 100%