Customer Ratings & Reviews

This is really amazing the quality to watch anything is clear and beautiful, thee porcessor is fast and design pretty, the remote control I love it is comfortable I’m really recommended

The only stream box to have if you have your own in house server with either plex or jellyfin and wish to stream in network full bandwidth 4k BR rips. It handles that so well that this is my second one. Got one in the living room and one in the bedroom now.

The only streamer I use. It is super powerful, fast and can be fairly customized to suit your needs. I use it as the main hub of my home theater. I can't say enough good things about it. This is my second Shield and probably won't be my last. I am a fan for life or until they change this perfect little machine in a bad way. It is a little pricey but worth it for me.

Great streaming device. One of my favorites. Have used my Samsung TV, Apple TV and Firestick. This, by far, is the fastest and smoothes of them all. It can do so much too. Glad they changed from a touch volume control to buttons, it could get annoying try to change the volume and it not registering. Also the AI Upscaling looks real good, the control shape is a little weird.

I purchased this to upgrade from my Roku Ulta for several reasons. 1. This allowed me to use Kodi, preferred over Plex as PleD is unstable on my network, to manage my video collection as a media server. 2. The speed that the unit in processing tasks or switching between apps. The remote is better on the Nvidia, but I use a Harmony Hub to coordinate all the activities. Set up was very simple, even adding a NAS was easy. The only complaint is customizing the remote and interaction with the Harmony unit. Nvidia seem to not make all commands available.

I have the 2017 Nvidia Shield but wanted another one for a different room. The Shield TV Pro is definitely worth the money. The AI upscaling works very well. I really like the newer remote too. The only negative is that for some reason I can install the Dish Anywhere App on the 2017 Shield but the newer Shield is not compatible. I hope this is addressed soon.

I highly recommend this powerful box - it is easy to setup, easy to use and the picture and sound quality is excellent! Side loading is critical for me as I use DIRECTV Streaming and there is no App on the play store for that - but with the side loading capability it is/was easy to get the app loaded and working.

Passthrough atmos, with Dolby Vision and HDR10 support? Nothing else beats the shield. Ya, you probably don't need this, unless you have a top end HDR 4k tv with a sound system to match. I have to say though, I run some 720p videos on Plex that I play and the one thing no one else can do that the shield does is this uses AI upscaling and it auto scales up my videos to run nicely on 4k. Really impressive feature.

bought this so i could get the most out of my movies (HDR, surround, etc). It works great for that... but the software is sometimes slow and the wifi antenna on it is horrid. Apps tend to close/restart randomly while you're using it. The remote is also the worst design I have ever experienced in my life. The shape makes no sense, it doesn't fit well in your hand, and the material is slippery so even if you could get a decent grip, it slides right out. The shape also makes it difficult to accurately hit buttons on the remote if it's resting on the table. Seriously, who green lit this design? Honestly for the average streamer, you might get the same benefits with just a simple 4k firestick.

This device is very easy to setup and start using. It also works extremely well. It's a whole lot faster than the Firestick that I was using before I purchased this. I've only had it for a month, but it's never hung up or reset on me yet. The Firestick did this repeatedly each time I used it.

Not only does this version of Android TV run smooth as butter, it doubles as a PLEX server for all my digital media. It is fast, reliable, and also can stream games via GeForce Now which works much better than something like Stadia, and uses the games you already own rather than forcing repurchases. If an app isn't available on this thing, you can bet that it can be sideloaded via Android. It really is a great device.

This was expensive, but works well. I don't like that is shows frames from whatever I've been watching. I like that it will play video from an external hard disk. For me, paying the extra money for the Pro version is well worth it - I have a lot of content on the hard drive, and it makes it easy to use for audio or video. There's apparently no way to view text or read books with this device. This will also work with Kodi, but I haven't set this up yet. I like the feel of the remote-it fits my hand well, and it doesn't want to slip out, like the flat remotes might do. Aside from its shape, I'm not thrilled with the remote - when I try to turn the volume up, half the time, I press the microphone button (I don't look at the remote when I use it), and the screen freezes until I wait for it to wake up or press the 'back' button on the remote. BestBuy says that this comes with Fubo -- it doesn't. This DOES come with six months of Paramount +. I haven't taken that offer yet - I'm not sure if there's anything there that I really want to see. I haven't tried upscaling the picture to 4K - I don't have a TV or monitor that can do 4K.

Wanted to buy shield for a long time. Used to own some cheaper analogs. Top tier android tv experiens, can trust to enter my google creds

Runs every TV app available in the android store, transcodes any video file you throw at it with Plex, and is very fast with streaming games. I tried the free geforcenow trial and played Cyberpunk over the internet with max graphics and it barely broke a sweat. Unless you are absolutely entrenched in the appletv ecosystem, this is the best streaming box you can buy

You can actually store video files on this device and play them with an app. Dead-nuts simple remote. Add storage with an external device, use apps for streaming. So nice.

Absolutely amazing product, amazing visuals, and the AI Upscaling actually does something! Even better the speed of this thing is crazy, absolutely blows away the built in SmartTV interfaces

I used the previous model but decided to upgrade since my TV supports Dolby Vision. I'm glad I made the switch since it does upscaling so well. I like the new remote design. If you fine with your current NVIDIA SHIELD then just stick with it. But if you got yourself a new 4k TV with Dolby Vision and want to take advantage of the AI upscaling then why not upgrade.

I love this streaming box I had a couple of different streaming box, new ones and they still don't compared to this one even though it's "outdated" still preform better then most on the market

Easy setup, reliable, gaming capabilities and I like the Google experience much more than Roku. I use the shield with a NAD T758V3i and the work well together.

I ordered the 2019 Shield TV Pro because the AI-enhanced upscaling that experts are calling the "best they've ever seen." Upscaling is usually a gimmick and current TVs and receivers do a poor job at it nearly all of the time. The norm when reading expert TV reviews is a recommendation to disable the onboard video upscaling for the best picture quality. I can attest the Shields A.I upscaling does make a big difference and newer TV's will see the biggest difference especially in animations. The interface is better than Fire TV Cube, and the new Fire TV Cube doesn’t have two USB 3.0 inputs for extra storage. You can use any programmable or learning (aka “universal”) IR remote. You can use any Bluetooth controller. You can stream live TV with the right apps if you’re a subscriber to that live TV service. It’s fast. It’s small. It looks pretty cool. Not only does it work, but there is absolutely nothing I can think of that anyone would want to do with it as a video streaming device, that this device can’t do. It is far and away the absolute best device for that purpose.