Customer Ratings & Reviews

I mainly got this for Nvidia Gamestream, as I have an Nvidia GPU and was hoping to stream my PC games to my TV. But, Nvidia essentially cancelled support for Gamestream a while ago apparently, in favor of their new streaming from the cloud service, geforce Now. Like it essentially works by manually adding all of your games, but any new game is going to miss out on most of the benefits of Gamestream, such as HDR, auto game settings, and I think there were a few other things. One thing of note is Gamestream supports 4k, whereas Geforce Now maxes out at 1080p. There are other game streaming services you can use, such as Moonlight I think it was called, which actually worked very well and had a lot of options, or Steam Link, but at that point why pay $200 for this thing when you could get any cheap Android TV/any of the several other devices for way cheaper that offer that same functionality? I tested out streaming with just about every service, Rain something or another, Parsec, Gamestream, Moonlight, and Steam Link. I have a mid range wifi 6 Asus router, and my gaming PC has a wifi 6 card in it. This shield only has wifi ac/5. I tested them all in each different setting, wired from PC, wifi from PC, wired to shield, wifi to shield. Really, if you want a smooth experience with minimal stuttering, you pretty much have to have both devices wired. Having one or the other wired wasn't toooo bad, but you got a decent amount of hitching/stuttering. Even wired, you would think it would be flawless at that point, but there was occasional hitching, was very compressed, and there was very noticeable input lag. For the price of this thing, you might as well just get a game console, in my opinion. This thing has a Tegra X1 chip, which is essentially useless unless you're big into Android games. I'm not too familiar with compression/decompression, but apparently there is a new codec or whatever that is support to be superior, h265 I think it was. I tried enabling that in some of the streaming apps, and it didn't seem to work, it kept defaulting to a different decompression codec. So I really don't know if the power of this thing would help in decompression for streaming games. I've tried various devices in the past, and they all seem to have about the same result of being less than ideal in even the best circumstances, with a lot of compression and input lag. I really don't see the point of this. A lot of TV's have android TV built in anymore, and even if they don't you can get a cheap android TV or any of the myriad streaming devices they have anymore. There's really nothing Nvidia specific about this that has any real benefit. There are better options for streaming games from your PC. I think Geforce Now and all those streaming services are terrible, they will always stutter and have input lag, but that doesn't stop these companies from seeing dollar signs and trying to force it on people. Is Geforce Now available on other Android devices? If so, that would make this even more pointless. Even the stand shown in all of the pictures for this, you have to buy that separately.

I have purchased 3 of these. One for each TV in my home. This makes every single TV look better. I have a Sony 950H, a LG CX OLED and a Samsung QN90A. All are stepped up several levels in image quality with the processing on this device.

I give it 4 cause it is working great.....but, and this could just be my crappy ISP also. lol Gaming is the issue I have...just alot of steps to get to actual gaming, ....I guess cuz I am new to this type of gaming system.....ubisoft, steam...myabe because I am not used to this type of gaming system..I love my PS devices..yes, all but the 5.

I got this because my wife mentioned how it could play games but it took some time because once we opened it and attempted to connect to play the games that are on there, it would not work. The library games on here is hands down better then the one on the apple TV though.

The absolute best investment I’ve made in home entertainment period! If you’re looking for a way to cut out or disable Dolby vision and your tvs factory settings don’t allow for it, this is the answer.

Fast delivery and happy bb had product in stock. Couldn’t find it anywhere else, including Amazon for this amount.

I picked one of these up for my projector set up. Allows me to do just about anything on the big screen. Great load times with bad internet. This thing forsure gets 5 stars. Also it's super small so it sits right on top the sound bar. Remote is awesome too.

Easy to install and operate. Like the full-size USB ports making it easy to connect external drives. May be conneced to a TV tuner to it which allows us to watch and record local TV channels. It does it require a special USB cable to connect it to a computer.

Everything about this is fanatistic except my remote volume doesn't have full control throughout the various apps. It's an easy fix by just increasing volume on TV higher to accomodate the lower shield volume settings.

Excellent for streaming your favorite movies or TV shows. The gaming feature is amazing as well

I'm waiting to buy a TV so I can't give a fair opinion until I connect and calibrate the Shield TV Pro with my new TV

Initial setup can be slow due to the download of updates. Once it has been updated, though, it is a breeze to add channels and watch TV.

The product really well for my usage. It is fast and reliable.

q good buy........................................

The best streaming/gaming device around. I have 5 of these devices total (2015, 2017 and now 2019 models) and they are the best. All still work flawlessly and have amazing software support from NVIDIA even on the 6 year old model.

So much better then the Amazon cube or fire stick only issue and it’s a small one the Netflix button is super easy to push. But Nvidia was smart enough to allow the shield to have multiple apps open so you tend not to lose your spot

You want the best then you have to pay. Device response time is the quickest and you can play any video format also audio format with this device. Saying goes you get what you pay for and for this case its true.

Did not work as I had hoped. I have a ceiling mounted projector that I currently use a wireless transmitter to send the signal from a Yamaha receiver to the projector, Issue is can only use the streaming services from a Blu Ray player, Netflix, Prime etc...but not Disney+. I was hoping to use this to connect to the receiver and send this signal to the projector but haven't been able to figure it out.

I've bought 5. Love them. I have these on all my TV's including a couple for my mom's house. No complaints!

Does all I want expensive though Best android box out there