Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K Max vs NVIDIA Shield TV Pro

Being an all Apple household I have to say this device impressed me quite a bit. I purchased a Firestick Lite over a year ago to take with me for travel but it had a bit of lag and seemed to have network drop outs on hotel WiFi (I know hotel WiFi is less than desired but it was annoying). In December this device was on sale for over half off and I decided to try it out. This was after I had gotten the previous Firestick 4K which was a decent product but I found out it for whatever reason cannot get the latest software (but the "less capable" Firestick Lite can, baffling I know)

Sooooo we left the cube plugged in for me and this for my husband but then when I would hit the home button on the fire cube remote to switch inputs and go to the cube the shield would then overwrite the command and switch back to the shield. It was so annoying. I just unplugged the shield. We haven't even used it in about a month

Want my advice? This is the worst piece of crap I've seen that's got a Google and netflix certification on it. Don't buy it. The Amazon fire stick leaves this shit eating dust anytime, it's just way much faster and works fine, despite me thinking FireOS and the Amazon AppStore to be inferior.

It updates automatically it's easy for less tech literate people to use because they don't have to learn how to cast from their phone and of the limit...

Amazon bundles the latest version of its Alexa voice remote with the new streaming stick. Aside from the usual playback buttons, there are also dedicated TV controls for power and volume. And you’ll also find four branded shortcuts for Prime Video, Netflix, Disney Plus, and Hulu. (These can technically be reprogrammed, but it’s quite a process

Nvida can be extremely hard nosed and that last reason is why I left my king of streaming boxes years ago on my older TV when I upgraded. NVidia refused to support Dolby Vision at the time. Now you can have it. Why did I buy this device? I ordered the 2019 Shield TV Pro because the AI-enhanced upscaling that experts are calling the "best they've ever seen

All the episodes of Jack Ryan were available on prime , on my smart tv’s prime app this didn’t happen, only season 2!?! 2. Sound and video were improved even though I had supported apps on my smart tv, and I cannot begin to tell you how much improvement I saw on Dolby Atmos support, especially Disney Plus and HBO Max , which had the apps on my smart tv but their Dolby Atmos sound was much better on the fire stick max 4k! Also Dolby Atmos support on the apps on the smart tv wasn’t perfect as Disney Plus didn’t have that support (for a certain period of time until it got updated) until I upgraded to the Fire Stick 4k Max! Then I had the best possible support for audio and video! Multichannel PCM is technically better than Dolby Digital Plus but I much prefer Dolby Digital Plus because the decoding will be done by the bitstream transferring to the soundbar/receiver rather than the streaming device decoding the signal for you and sending it via PCM. Dolby Digital Plus can be louder and I just prefer it over multichannel PCM. Firestick 4k Max will pass bitstreams while Apple TV’s Dolby Mat decoder will only passthrough Dolby Digital 5

I have a Sony A80J, Nvidia Shield TV Pro, PS5, Definitive Technology Mythos 4 fronts, Mythos 3 Center, Cube 3 Sub and Pro 1000 Rears 5.1 plus 2 outdoor speakers on A/B switching.

NO TETHER - NOR PLACE TO ATTACH ONE There's not even a tether. At least in the old days if you were going to design a tiny terrible product you would at least have an attachable wrist tether and hope it would compensate for something. I would attach it to a larger lanyard - preferably one that glows in the dark and/or has an internal LED. THERE's ONLY ONE Just throwing this out there: Old TVS used to come with a PAIR of remotes

I used an Ethernet cable for my original Shield, but with the new one I tried to use WiFi because I didn't want to run another cable. However I soon discovered that every 20 minutes or so my entire WiFi network would go down, disconnecting everything on the network, and then come back up by itself within a minute or so. After searching for the problem on the internet I discovered this has been an ongoing problem beginning with the 2017 model, and unfortunately if it occurs there is no solution other than to use a wired connection, or try to buy a router that might work with it. It appears it happens most frequently with ASUS routers, but it's really dependent upon the chipset a router uses, as well as the local WiFi environment, so others are affected as well

I do wish the live channels could be arranged by preference, maybe there is a way and I just haven't figured it out. Here is what I am not crazy about, the menu or landing page. The Home, Find, Live in my opinion should be at the top of the page horizontal or vertical. This would allow for more apps to show as opposed to 6 and should simply scroll with no need to drop to an apps area (3 little squares)

I'm updating my review entirely, I was finally able to get Wolf Launcher to run and MAN is it SO SO SO MUCH better than the stock launcher that's the current update. The stock launcher is OK, it hitches and shows me so much irrelevant content since I only use my Plex server. Wolf Launcher is 10x more responsive and looks much nicer. In order to do so, make sure you find the updated "techdoctorUK" video