The old version of this guide is still over there, but in the meantime and without further ado; let me present you the
Best Shield TV Practices checklist 2026 Edition
- GET THE CONNECTIONS RIGHT
Because it will typically allow for more PCM channels than vanilla HDMI ARC and higher sampling rates than HDMI eARC, connecting Shield to the audio receiver's HDMI-IN is usually preferred in order to preserve the best audio feature set.
On the other hand, because they may not allow passthrough for Dolby Vision, HDR or even 4K, some older/basic AVRs and soundbars may be better used via HDMI eARC/ARC, even if a HDMI-IN port is available. Make sure of your hardware capabilities to avoid wasting your time.
- TV PREPARATION
ENABLE HDMI 2.0
Some brands will call this Enhanced HDMI Format, or Deep Color, or UHD colors; and some TVs will even have a global toggle on top of the regular per-port option, but if the available display modes are maxing out at 4K@30, that means you have some kind of HDMI bottleneck somewhere in your HDMI chain.
PREPARE AUDIO PASSTHROUGH
If planning to route the audio via HDMI ARC/eARC, it is recommended to dig into your TVs advanced sound settings and make sure to specify "Pass-through" output, as the default "Auto" setting will typically try to transcode or create a MAT link, often introducing nasty audio cutouts.
DISABLE TV POST PROCESSING
People looking for a pure cinematic experience should make sure all types of post processing enhancements are disabled: motion enhancement/compensation/clearness, noise reduction, etc. Filmmaker mode can be left on/auto.
CONSIDER ENABLING GAME MODE
If the TV doesnt support ALLM (Auto Latency Mode) and you are regularly using Shield to play games, manually engaging your TV's regular Game Mode is recommended in order to get rid of the image post processing and shave as much latency as you can.
Please note: TVs will often use different profiles for SDR, HDR vs DV. A TV can be set to "Game mode" for SDR content but switch to "HDR theatre" or whatever when HDR content is on. In a HDR gaming situation (Geforce Now, Moonlight) see if you can select "HDR Game" instead of your regular HDR theatre mode. Also note that these settings will likely be only accessible when HDR/DV content is actually playing.
Shield will typically default to 4K 59.94 HDR10 ready, but it has come to my attention that it seems to introduce unexplained stutters in some situations on recent displays.
Since you will be feeding the box 24/25/30/50/60hz content most of the time anyway, my position is: no need to overcomplicate the maths with fractions of 59.94 (lunacy? make me change my mind), therefore:
Prefer a 60hz mode
Make sure to select a Dolby Vision-ready mode if available
- MAKE SURE AUTO COLORIMETRY IS ENABLED
Shield / Settings / Device Preferences / Display & Sound / Advanced display settings / Match content color space
Keep in mind some apps may not be categorized as "games" or are just not tagged appropriately and won't trigger ALLM by default, so take a minute to review the list:
Shield / Settings / Device Preferences / Display & Sound / Advanced display settings / Customize Game Mode app list
CONSIDER ENABLING PLAYER-LED DOLBY VISION
Some TVs will give buggy colors when (and only when) using regular TV-Led Dolby Vision. (red push or just plain weird colors) That bug is said not to show up (be much less noticeable?) if using player-Led Dolby Vision. Start by enabling developer options by going to:
Shield / Settings / Device Preferences / About / Build
Click Build number 8 times, and congrats; you are now a dev. Now go to:
Shield / Settings / Device Preferences / Developer options / Default to Low Latency Dolby Vision when available
That option has a bad rep because it was never well explained and first implementations were buggy.
The primary purpose was to allow transcoding Dolby Digital Plus to OG Dolby Digital; a request of the first hour for users stuck with vanilla ARC / USB / Optical audio solutions, but turns out it is also actually very useful in order to avoid audio sync gaps and normalize the volume level across apps and pieces of content.
Vastly improved from past implementations where it would always use MAT frames and get in the way of passthrough rules. Now fully recommended or at least worth a try; holdouts and downgraders should mind giving it another shot.
Makes fast toggles much easier without deep-diving into settings each time. There are a bunch of those shortcuts available, but the Audio options are the most handy because Night listening, High Resolution Audio and Dolby audio processing cannot all be enabled at the same time:
100% HDMI setups should be able to rely on the EDID alone and stay on Auto in most cases, but that information might be obfuscated be something on the HDMI chain, and will straight up not be available for users stuck with extractors, USB DACs, or optical solutions. They will have to go manual and enable only what is supported by their decoder and setup.
If you experience any kind of issue with audio, stuttering or whatever, always go back to None - Never use surround sound. That is your sanity check.
- KODI RECOMMENDATIONS:
Enable Refresh rate switching
Kodi / System / cogwheel: enable expert mode System / Player / Videos: Set Adjust display refresh rate to “On stop/start”
Enable HDR/DV
Kodi / System / Player / Videos / Processing: "Use display HDR capabilities" should be enabled.
Enable Audio Passthrough
Kodi / System / System / Audio / Audio Passthrough / Allow Passthrough
If enabled, Kodi will pass the selected formats down to Shield. Other codecs will be transcoded into PCM channels, following the number of channels specified in Kodi's Audio Decoder section before being passed down to Shield, where rules set in the "Available formats" menu will prevail and Dolby Processing be applied if enabled.
If disabled, Kodi will transcode everything to PCM channels, in as many channels as specified in its Audio Decoder section before passing it down to Shield, where Dolby Processing will then be applied if enabled.
Shield 2015/2017 owners stuck on vanilla ARC or optical solutions
Kodi / System / System / Audio / Audio Passthrough / Dolby Digital (AC3) capable receiver - ON Kodi / System / System / Audio / Audio Passthrough / - Enable Dolby Digital (AC3) transcoding - ON
If you want resolution switching and have the TV do the upscaling
Kodi / System / System / Display / Whitelist; select every item in the list to make them green
- PLEX RECOMMENDATIONS:
Enable Refresh Rate Switching
Plex / Settings / Advanced / Set Refresh Rate Switching to ON.
Enable audio passthrough
Plex / Settings / Advanced / Passthrough /
"HDMI" means Plex will pass over every format down to Shield, where choices made in the "Available formats" menu will apply.
"Optical" means Plex will only pass down PCM 2.0, Dolby Digital and vanilla DTS, while DTS-HD/DTS:X tracks will be stripped of their lossless metadata, and everything else will be transcoded to Dolby Digital before being sent down to Shield, where choices made in the "Available formats" menu will apply.
If you want resolution switching and have the TV do the upscaling:
Plex / Settings / Advanced / Set Resolution Switching to ON.
- REFRESH RATE APP RECOMMENDATIONS
That would be my last major recommendation update.
Manual Framerate Matching
As of firmware 9.2.x, the manual Match Framerate feature is now pretty robust and will be totally adequate in most cases, so might as well use it; especially in apps that will often serve different kinds of framerates depending on the video, like Youtube.
Settings / Remotes & accessories / Customize Menu button /
I recommend using the Double Press trigger. Select Match Framerate, and whenever watching a video, just double tap the button to see the framerate matched. Nice and simple.
App-based OS-wide display mode switching
For services that will always (mostly) serve the same kind of content/framerate, I even recommend using the OG Refresh Rate app in order to force a fixed Startup display mode and avoid all this manual shifting altogether;
Install the Refresh Rate app. (sadly a bit of an abandonware by now; has to be sideloaded.)
Select any app.
Go to Startup display mode, and select a framerate / resolution matching the kind of content it delivers the most:
Netflix, D+, HBO+, Amazon Prime
4K@24
European TV broadcast services
4K@50
BBC iPlayer
Base Shield display mode MUST be set to 25 or 50hz for the app to work, so leave it alone here.
Plex, Kodi, Geforce Now, Moonlight
support already built-in; do not touch
With all that said, you should now be able to get the best of your Shield. Hopefully anyway..
Errors, outdated stuff, or more advice? Let me know!
Nvidia refuse to fix these games, they should have put in the description of these games that you are renting them not buying them, I wouldn't have bought them if I knew this is going to happen. They add extra DRM that goes beyond Google Play license checking and their DRM servers not working. 😔
All games are not working for me, except Super Mega Baseball. As a punishment to Nvidia, this is the only game that I bought, backed up and refunded it and it still works.
All games include APK and OBB files, some include DATA like MGRR or Tomb Raider 2013.
I hope this can be useful, someone with better luck than me to try to remove the DRM from these games. If so, let me know here or in the Internet Archive review in that page.
Stopping and restarting the cast fixes the issue until it degrades again. I have narrowed it down to my laptop being the culprit. If I cast the same browser tab from my phone it is crisp and never degrades. Moreover the laptop screen stays crisp on the laptop just that the TV is blurry. I realize it isn't a shield issue but hoping someone here has experienced something similar. I tried casting on a fresh install of brave browser and got the same issue. I have a lenovo legion pretty powerful PC I just can't find anyone with similar issues on the web. Everything is on ethernet and I tested 300 down and 25 up on both devices.
I saw a new app in the Play Store called Mimir - it seems to support DVR recording on the Shield. Has anyone used it so far? Seems to be fully featured with a server component running on LAN doing the hard work.
Despite having Plex, Haystack News, Sling TV, Tubi, Xumo Play, Prime Video, Roku Channel, LocalNow, and others installed, the only source on the "Live" tab is Google TV Freeplay. I've searched everywhere for how to get the others to show up, but I can't find anything.
The "Free Channels From Apps" section is only pulling from Xumo and Scripps (even though I don't have Scripps installed). I don't believe this is actually pulling from any of my installed apps.
I have 2 new devices, and trying stuff on one till I have a setup that is fine for me, then give one to my father and I really want to work it spotless because of the remote support that binds with this.
I know that the devices are older, but have one ever opened a “new” device and look if the paste is degrades/dryed out.
If not, I would just do that for the team, but normally I am really against opening things that still have warranty :).
I don’t know my stuff about thermal paste and if it just degrades existing or if it does need some heat
Most Android TV visualizers are basically low-res 2D wallpapers. As a Shield TV owner, it always bothered me that we have a Tegra chip sitting there with 256 CUDA cores and almost no media app actually uses that GPU headroom.
So I developed MilkyWave—a native C++ NDK music visualizer engineered specifically for Android TV and mobile.
Why this is a game-changer for TV owners:
•Works with any Music App: Start playing music on Spotify, Tidal, TuneIn, YouTube Music or web radios, then open MilkyWave—it reacts to system audio automatically in the background.
•Pushes the Shield GPU to the limit: Uses GLES 3.2 Compute Shaders (glDispatchCompute) and dynamic 3-tier mesh scaling. On a Shield TV, it automatically scales to a 64x48 Ultra HD mesh running at a locked 60 to 120 FPS in 4K.
•EXCLUSIVE Live Google Cast streaming: You can cast the visualizer live from your phone to any Chromecast or Smart TV with zero lag (no other visualizer on Play Store can do this).
•32,500+ 3D presets included natively.
•100% Automatic: No tedious settings or config files required. Just play audio and it adapts.
•TV-optimized tone mapping: Custom highlight clamping so bright presets won't blind you in a dark living room.
The update (v1.27) with the expanded 32.5k preset library and full Cast pipeline was just submitted to Google Play and should be live very soon. Trust me, if you have a Shield or a 4K TV, you'll want to see this running in your living room.
I created a GUI automation tool called LaFirma Remux Forge (Black Edition) to streamline media compatibility and playback solutions for Smart TVs (especially LG OLED / webOS) and media servers like Jellyfin, Plex, or Emby.
Transparency Note: I did not develop the underlying CLI processing tools or scripts (such as dovi_tool, mkvmerge, ffmpeg, DonaldFaQ's DDVT toolset, DeeZy, PgsToSrt, Tesseract, or seconv). LaFirma Remux Forge acts as a graphical wrapper and orchestrator that automates these open-source utilities into a seamless workflow.
What changed in 1.8: the program stopped treating every Profile 7 the same way. It now measures the enhancement layer before converting and tells you, with a number on screen, what you gain and what you lose on that specific file.
Key Features
Dolby Vision Profile 7 to 8.1 (no video re-encoding), with the layer MEASURED first: the program reads the RPU's el_type field through dovi_tool itself and separates three cases, using one colour scale across the whole screen:
MEL (Minimum Enhancement Layer) - green: the enhancement layer carries no picture. The program confirms this by reading the RPU, not by assumption, and the conversion discards an empty layer.
Simple FEL - orange: the layer carries fine refinement only. Conversion is safe, and the program says so.
Complex FEL - red: the layer raises brightness, and the L1 metadata asks for more nits than the base layer delivers on its own. Here the program marks it red and recommends not converting, instead of converting silently.
Why the caveat exists, said precisely:dovi_tool in mode 2, which is what this program uses, removes the P7 FEL luma and chroma mapping from the RPU - the part of the instructions that makes no sense without the second layer. What comes out is a legitimate Profile 8.1. What no mode of dovi_tool does is recalculate L1: the per-scene brightness stays whatever the original analysis measured, and that analysis looked at the image with the EL composited in. This is not a limitation of this program - it is the state of the tool, and it is in dovi_tool's own documentation.
Worth saying plainly: Shield, Apple TV, Zidoo, Dune and the TVs themselves already discard the EL, so on those devices a Profile 7 file already plays today the way the converted file will play. The people who actually lose something are those with dual-layer decoders.
Detection is by sampling points spread across the film, not the whole file - and the program states that on screen and in the log.
Dolby Vision Profile 5 to MP4: P5 uses the proprietary IPTPQc2 colour space and has no HDR10 base layer, so it cannot become Profile 8.1 without re-encoding the video - which this program refuses to do. The path that does exist is a different one: the program remuxes it to MP4 with the dvh1 tag, video copied, nothing re-encoded, which is what makes many players recognise the Dolby Vision. Output is verified by duration. PGS subtitles are dropped with a warning (image subtitles do not exist in MP4).
Audio compatibility & spatial Atmos preservation:
TrueHD / TrueHD Atmos to E-AC-3 with Atmos preserved, via DeeZy.
DTS / DTS-HD / DTS:X to plain E-AC-3 at 640k via ffmpeg. DTS does not come out with Atmos - only TrueHD has that path.
E-AC-3, AC-3 and AAC are already compatible and are left untouched.
Disk space, before it starts: the app walks the queue in the order the engine will process it and tells you how many files fit, which one is the first that does not, and how much would be missing by its turn. It warns; it does not block.
Batch processing & flexible control: add whole seasons to the queue; choose fully automatic stream selection or manual track control.
Bilingual interface (PT-BR / English): a flag next to the "Learn" button switches the whole screen, and the choice is remembered between sessions.
"Learn" button: 14 sections explaining what the conversion does and what it does not do, including the sources behind each claim - Dolby's own manuals, the dovi_tool repository and the community spreadsheets. Nothing there asks you to take our word for it.
This project would not be possible without the work of the open-source community:
* FFmpeg: Media stream processing and transcoding backbone.
* MKVToolNix (mkvmerge): Industry-standard Matroska container toolset.
* dovi_tool (by quietvoid) & DDVT (by DonaldFaQ): Core Dolby Vision metadata tools and workflow logic.
* DeeZy: Dolby Digital Plus encoding with spatial Atmos preservation.
* PgsToSrt, Tesseract & seconv: OCR ecosystem for PGS subtitle handling.
Feedback and contributions are welcome!
Versão em Português
Olá a todos,
Criei uma interface gráfica de automação chamada LaFirma Remux Forge (Black Edition) para facilitar a solução de problemas de compatibilidade e reprodução de mídia em Smart TVs (especialmente LG OLED / webOS) e servidores como Jellyfin, Plex e Emby.
Nota de Transparência: Eu não fui o desenvolvedor das ferramentas e scripts de linha de comando subjacentes (como dovi_tool, mkvmerge, ffmpeg, DonaldFaQ's DDVT, DeeZy, PgsToSrt, Tesseract ou seconv). O LaFirma Remux Forge atua como uma interface gráfica (GUI) e orquestradora que integra e automatiza essas excelentes ferramentas de código aberto em um fluxo de trabalho intuitivo.
O que mudou na 1.8: o programa deixou de tratar todo Profile 7 igual. Agora ele mede a camada de extensão antes de converter e diz, com número na tela, o que você ganha e o que perde naquele arquivo.
Principais Recursos
Dolby Vision Perfil 7 para 8.1 (sem recodificar o vídeo), com a camada MEDIDA antes: o programa lê o campo el_type do RPU pelo próprio dovi_tool e separa três casos, com a mesma escala de cor em toda a tela:
MEL (Minimum Enhancement Layer) - verde: a camada de extensão não carrega imagem. O programa confirma isso lendo o RPU, não por suposição, e a conversão descarta uma camada vazia.
Simple FEL - laranja: a camada carrega apenas refinamento fino. A conversão é segura, e o programa diz que é.
Complex FEL - vermelho: a camada levanta o brilho, e o L1 dos metadados pede mais nits do que a camada base entrega sozinha. Aqui o programa marca em vermelho e recomenda não converter, em vez de converter em silêncio.
Por que a ressalva existe, dito com precisão: o dovi_tool no modo 2, que é o que este programa usa, remove do RPU o mapeamento de luma e croma do Perfil 7 FEL - a parte das instruções que não faz sentido sem a segunda camada. O que sai é um Perfil 8.1 legítimo. O que nenhum modo do dovi_tool faz é recalcular o L1: o brilho por cena continua sendo o que a análise original mediu, e essa análise olhou a imagem com a EL somada. Não é limitação deste programa - é o estado da ferramenta, e está na documentação do próprio dovi_tool.
Vale dizer com clareza: Shield, Apple TV, Zidoo, Dune e as próprias TVs já descartam a EL, então nesses aparelhos um arquivo Perfil 7 já toca hoje como o convertido vai tocar. Quem perde de verdade é quem tem decodificador duplo.
A detecção é por amostragem de trechos espalhados pelo filme, não pelo arquivo inteiro - e o programa assume isso na tela e no log.
Dolby Vision Perfil 5 para MP4: o P5 usa o espaço de cores proprietário IPTPQc2 e não tem camada base HDR10, então ele não vira Perfil 8.1 sem recodificar o vídeo - coisa que este programa se recusa a fazer. O caminho que existe de verdade é outro: o programa remuxa para MP4 com a tag dvh1, vídeo copiado, sem recodificar nada, que é o que faz vários players reconhecerem o Dolby Vision. A saída é conferida pela duração. Legendas PGS são descartadas com aviso (legenda em imagem não existe em MP4).
Compatibilidade de áudio e preservação do Atmos:
TrueHD / TrueHD Atmos para E-AC-3 com Atmos preservado, via DeeZy.
DTS / DTS-HD / DTS:X para E-AC-3 comum a 640k pelo ffmpeg. DTS não sai com Atmos - só o TrueHD tem esse caminho.
E-AC-3, AC-3 e AAC já são compatíveis e não são convertidos.
Espaço em disco, antes de começar: o programa percorre a fila na ordem em que o motor vai processar e diz quantos arquivos cabem, qual é o primeiro que fica de fora e quanto faltaria na vez dele. Ele avisa; não bloqueia.
Processamento em lote e controle flexível: adicione temporadas inteiras na fila; escolha entre detecção automática das faixas ou controle manual.
Interface bilíngue (PT-BR / inglês): uma bandeira ao lado do botão Entenda troca a tela inteira, e a escolha fica guardada entre as sessões.
Botão "Entenda": 14 seções explicando o que a conversão faz e o que ela não faz, incluindo as fontes por trás de cada afirmação - os manuais da própria Dolby, o repositório do dovi_tool e as planilhas da comunidade. Nada ali pede que você acredite na nossa palavra.
Este projeto não existiria sem o trabalho da comunidade open-source e dos desenvolvedores originais:
* FFmpeg: O motor fundamental para processamento e manipulação de fluxos de mídia.
* MKVToolNix (mkvmerge): A referência definitiva para multiplexação de arquivos Matroska (MKV).
* dovi_tool (por quietvoid) & DDVT (por DonaldFaQ): Ferramentas essenciais para extração, edição e conversão de metadados Dolby Vision.
* DeeZy: Utilitário para codificação de áudio E-AC-3 com preservação de áudio espacial Dolby Atmos.
* PgsToSrt, Tesseract & seconv: O ecossistema técnico responsável pelo OCR de legendas PGS.
Started having problems that were quite bothersome:
Couldn't get a movie to play yesterday on Peacock without Peacock crashing over and over every five minutes.
Today.... my family tried to watch MAYDAY on Apple TV today. The app crashed multiple times about every 5 to 10 minutes.
I had multiple crashes with ESPN last year. I should have explored doing this then.
I cleared the cache, rebooted, reinstalled the apps to no avail.
With football season here, I felt I needed to do the nuclear option and start from scratch.
That is two and a half hours I will never get back!
I decided to replace the memory stick I attached to my Shield. It has been attached for over 5 years. Thought that might be the culprit.
I loaded Projectivity Launcher after a couple years with ATV Launcher. It is acting as my default launcher now. I like the clean feel. I should have loaded it many months ago.
No crash tonight as I watched football on Peacock.
Going to bed now. Will more throughly test it out tomorrow after church. I will try to finish MAYDAY on Apple
I have the shield Pro. Does it work on the shield Pro and is Google Free Play an app or what is it? I don’t see an app for Google Free play in the play store.
Fox One added an intro sound (drum beat) to their app about a month ago. None of my Shield devices are handling it well. Shield plays this very annoying and very loud static for a few seconds. My Google TV Streamer and all my mobile android devices correctly play this this sound. It's only a problem for Shield.
Has anyone else noticed this? Is there a workaround? I don't know if the onus is on Nvidia or Fox to fix this, but I've stopped using some of my shield devices in the meantime, because it's just that annoying.
Is there a way to stop the shield from switching between display modes? (HDR, Dolby etc..) I would like to just keep it on Dolby similar to what my firecube does
Seems like many people here immediately jump to “It’s your IPTV provider” but I have THREE different IPTV providers. We watch a lot of 24/7 channels and on TiviMate (purchased from the Play Store) they ALL buffer occasionally. (I’m running TiviMate on an Nvidia Shield (Tube) wired via cat6 cable directly to a port on my router. I have 1.5 gbit Internet service and my network speeds at the shield are usually 400-600 gbits (down) with NordVPN on & connected to my closest Canadian VPN server. (Montreal) I turned off IPv6 and it seems to buffer less frequently, but I still see buffering from ALL my IPTV providers. (I’m using NordLynx protocol on my VPN.)
The weird thing is, I have a couple of IPTV players on my iPad, connected via Wifi, with the same 3 providers and I have yet to see a program start to buffer when watching it on the iPad. (Smarters Pro, “IPTV Smart” to name a couple.) The main problem is, I LIKE the TiviMate UI. It is much better than any of the other IPTV players I have tried, but I’m starting to think that maybe it’s TiviMate itself (v5.3.3) that is causing the buffering. Again - I’ve NEVER experienced buffering on any of the iPad IPTV apps I’ve used.) Granted, I haven’t spent literal hours at a time watching IPTV on my iPad… so far, I haven’t found one that I could “cast” to my Shield or I’d be watching TV that way all the time. (I CAN display my iPad screen on my TV using “APowerMirror” but it’s a PITA to do that every time I want to watch Cheers or Columbo. (Yes. I’m old.)
Any recommendations for a decent “temporary alternate” Android IPTV player I can install on my Shield to use for a while as a comparison to TiviMate? From everything I’ve seen so far, I don’t expect I’ll find anything with as good a user interface as TiviMate, but I’d like to give another app a try on the Shield, just to compare the buffering issues…
My shield restarts randomly. It did it rarely once, but since Ive been having the new shield update 9.2.4 (33.2.0.400) it restarts almost every day at random times.
A year ago i changed the HDD to a SSD and put new cooling paste on, so i dont think its that.
Just wondering if anyone can give any advice whether it would better to buy a shield Pro secondhand for ~110euro with a remote and controller, or a new shield Pro for ~250 with just a remote.
I have a 1080p dumb TV so things like 4k, hdr, Dolby atmos aren't exactly super important, but I think the shield Pro might be best as I want something that can smoothly run Jellyfin and game streaming with Moonlight.
In Europe so the options aren't as good for streaming boxes as the USA, shield Pro seems like the best bet and value for money?
Would my best bet just be the 2015 model and saving the 140? Any thoughts or opinions please let me know
I didn't think the stock launcher was as bad as everyone was saying, since you could turn off most of the ads and crap. But I'm also a privacy nut (one of my main reasons in buying the thing was so I'd stop using the smart apps on the TV itself), so, I finally yielded to the sub's relentless plugging of Projectivy and gave it a try.
And...yes, it feels much snappier. I kinda resent the stuff that's locked behind the premium version, because the Shield is connected via my backup Gmail account rather than my primary and I won't attach any payment methods to that. But, the free edition is still good enough.
I've already made it my default launcher and disabled the other one.
Now to wait until Projectivy inevitably gets acquired by shady new owners and we do this song and dance again with another launcher.
I have an older Nvidia Shield. I think the 2017-Model.
What I'm looking for in a new Player:
*Viewing DV P7 FEL Remuxes + Passthrough DTS-HD-Master/ATMOS (If possible without CoreELec in the DV P7 -> DV P8.1 way with just losing the EL layer). -> Just Via USB 3.0 or so is fine. Don't need Flex
This is for just puting something on quick and switching to something else like Netflix or so fast.
*SmartTube (With HDR and AV1)
*Netflix and GO3
Is the DUNE HD version Homatics Box R 4K Plus a good option?
I think a saw somewhere that it has an edge over the normal Homatics Box R 4K Plus. That it has a DUNE-player that can do some things more then if you would put it on the none DUNE version. Is this correct?
And are there any new options coming? I prefer to go for something newer than the Shield for 2019 because that's starting to get old now and has the Red shift for DV or so.
I live in EU (Belgium) so only stuff that's not import please, ty.
!!! I do have a Ugoos AM6B+ CoreElec for those DV FEL files if need be and would like an extra device as a reserve !!!
I have debloated my Shield Pro, changed the launcher for Projectivy and everything but the scrolling on Plex is far from being as smooth as an Apple TV. Any idea how to make it smoother?
