Customer Ratings & Reviews

Nice box for streaming! Easy to set up and use! Quality product.

This is a very powerful machine for its form factor. A nice remote that is ergonomic and it lights up and can be found with a beeper. The shield has a nvidia x1 chipset that can be very snappy in menus as well as allowing content to be upscaled to 4k w hdr. Emulation is a powerhouse if you are into that sort of thing everything GC down almost flawlessly. You will enjoy this product, it is recommened to use a external drive for content.

WOW! We were very hesitant to spend this much on a media player as we already have a fire tv, hulu etc... But this thing blew them all away! So much faster than the competitors or the built in functions on smart tv's. Much better picture quality and it supports ATMOS. We really just wanted a device that could control the streaming, tv and stereo receiver with one remote and we got more than we had hoped for!

Great streaming product. High video quality. Very fast

Excellent player actually I have four of them in my house and thanks to Best Buy. I had a little problem with the shipping but store fixed it like it was nothing thank Best Buy for that. if you’re looking for a media player, I would definitely stay away from the Fire Stick definitely go with the Nvidia shield. You can’t go wrong with this super quick media player

This is the best abdroid box on the market. The featured AI upscaler is priceless. No matter what type of tv you have it will make your picture so much better.

I recently purchased a new television that supports Dolby Vision & Atmos so I upgraded my 2017 Shield to the 2019 Shield mainly just for the the support of those new features but right away I noticed this new box was much improved from the 2017. It's much quicker than the previous version and the remote, oh my is the remote a much appreciated upgrade.

Absolutely hated the fact that I needed to switch to my 2016 LG OLED's built-in apps to get Dolby Vision, but sacrifice Dolby Atmos sound for Netflix on the Shield 2015. This upgrade was well worth the money. Speed, AI Upscale, Dolby-Vision, Dolby Atmos processing, and all in a sleeker (smaller) package. Not to mention the oddly shaped, but surprisingly ergonomic remote is included. Great option to self gifting. Treat yo' self!

no it doesnt come with 500gb hard drive but if like me you have a NAS on your home network then you are still good to go. picture quality on youtube 4k videos looks like you are in the room for some videos and looking out a window on others. AI upscaling is the bomb. the new remote is eons better than the old one. all the best legal streaming apps are available as well. its the best streaming box available full stop.

Even after almost 7 years all other streaming boxes are still trying to catch up. Was debating on upgrading my 2019 Samsung tv and getting a newer one because the tv UI felt very slow and sluggish. Then while browsing best buy I stumbled across this product and did my research on it and there was nothing but great things about it so I gave it a try. Not only did it rejuvenate my TV but the UI was snappy and didn't lag. The bonus of this being an android TV device makes it so you can download better apps then you would from other streaming devices plus the option to game through the NVidia GeForce Now is incredible.

Have three of these, and I've tried everything else. These used to be hands down the best streaming appliance - continuous updates, great performance, upscaling, even gaming/emulation functions. New triangle shaped remote is awesome. Here's the rub - latest update from NVida & Google places ADs at the top 1/3 of the home screen. You cannot disable this with without disabling system services which in turn breaks Netflix, Youtube and a few other services. For a $200 device, that was previously AD free, this is completely uncalled for. Even with updates disabled, the update gets installed. For this wonderful turn of events - I give the unit 1 star. If they decide to correct this, I'll update the review. Otherwise, avoid a device you pay a premium for, but have no control over. AppleTV looks better everyday.

I wanted a stand alone streaming box that output Dolby Atmos and Vison so after some looking around online I found the Nvidia Shield. This box does everything I want and more. Set-up was very easy and there is countless guides online to help you customize. If you want a fantastic streaming experience as well as playback of locally stored media, this is the box for you!

I am absolutely pleased with my purchase of my new NVIDIA - SHIELD Android TV Pro - 16GB - 4K HDR Streaming Device. It works great with my Samsung Smart TV. If you need an android streaming device for compatibility for apps, etc. This is the one.

you hear something is the "best" and then see the price and think to yourself "what else is out there?" After trying several other streaming boxes this most certainly is the best. Its ease of use is also helpful as several other less expensive boxes lag and are not as user friendly. The box also comes with the best remote Ive ever used with any streaming box or tv accessory.

Still the king of the hill years later when talking about streaming boxes. I've tried dozens of different streamers from old school WDTV boxes, purpose built streamers that just play whatever you plug into them, chinese android boxes, apple tv, and at the end of the day I always go back to the Shield TV. It's what I recommend to anyone looking for a good streaming box. It's the only box that Plex allows to run it's own server (because the nvidia SOC has the horsepower to do so). It streams games from PC to your TV, runs android so you can install anything in the google play store, Plex, Kodi, vlc... I have four of them and one of them is a dedicated plex server with a DAS library of 15TB online. Add an nvidia controller and it's also a very capable game console.

This new Shield TV fixes all the remaining deficiencies of the old version. Supports all the latest Dolby codes. AI upscaling. Better remote. Wish the Netflix button was more easily programmable. Supposedly there is a way but haven't tried it yet though. Cons. Expensive. Not on sale yet. Full regular price. Although I got a 10% discount coupon from Best Buy to offset the price.

I have 2 of the 2017 Shields and very pleased with them. I also had. Apple TV 4K and while the Apple has always had a slightly better picture quality the overall Shield experience was better for me. Well the Shield Pro is a another evolutionary step forward. The addition Dolby Vision and enhanced scaling options really polish the device off. I was mixed about the new remote, but it fits in the hand nicely and works great. Now if they would add YouTube HDR support this would be the perfect decide. Setting the AI Scaling mode to Enhanced mode gives the device equal picture quality to the Apple TV 4K, but adds in better audio support and pass through audio options.

Very easy to use. Picture quality is fantastic and no lag with use. I like it better than firecube and roku. Remote is easy to use. Only negative is Netflix button too easy to accidentally press (Wish it wasn't there) and wish it had channel up and down buttons. Positives far outway negatives and images better on oled TV with this using YouTube tv

I owned 2 of the 2017 models and a lot of people have with the differences between 2017 and 2019 models. The big thing is support for upscaling and dolby vision. The upscaling really is pretty good. It is subtle, and some content looks worse, but most content looks crisper and more vibrant (in a good way). for more, just search "2019 vs 2017 shield"

I bought the Shield TV Pro 2019 to use as an Android TV box and/or Plex server. To summarize, it works great as a TV box, somewhat less well as a server. As a tv box, it is very quick and responsive. The remote control works much better than I anticipated. I hadn't realized the volume control on the remote would work as an IR volume control for our older LCD TV, so that was a good thing to learn. The box has been very stable, with few if any reboots required in streaming box service. It also works well as a Plex or Emby client. When I tried to use it as a Plex server, I was ultimately mostly successful, but had several issues getting it going satisfactorily. Those were mostly around being visible on the network so I could copy media files to the external USB drive that was attached to the Shield TV Pro as external storage. There were also issues with the Shield not responding to requests from clients while the Shield as sleeping: from what I've seen online, some folks have that issue, and others don't. I haven't seen a true fix, and I cannot say what ultimately got mine working reasonably well. After I ordered a NAS to be the media server, the Shield finally started responding properly to client requests even when sleeping. Just before the NAS arrived, the Shield was working mostly OK as a server, but still had two issues: it never allowed the external USB hard to drive to sleep so that it was always spinning and hot. Secondly, after the Shield TV awoke from sleep, the external hard drive was not accessible from the LAN: you could see and access the Shield internal storage, but it was as if the external drive was invisible to the network, but still usable by the Shield TV. Only a reboot would resolve that to make the drive accessible on the network to permit media files to be copied. I have not attempted any gaming on the Shield TV, so have no comments on that function.