Customer Ratings & Reviews

I recently bought a 4K Samsung smart TV, and while I was generally satisfied with the picture quality, there were some performance issues with certain apps. I wanted a machine that could, at a minimum, process Netflix 4K shows and movies without artifacts, but I was also interested in streaming games from my PC to my TV. For this purpose, the Shield Pro was the device I settled on. While Android TV has some quirks compared to Samsung's Tizen OS, I feel that the positives greatly outweigh any issues I've had with it.

Awesome device! So easy to use. The remote is sleek, simple, and feels good. Powerful enough for all of my needs.

Not to much of an upgrade to the previous Nvidia, It's slightly faster then the previous one. The best part of the pro is the remote much better that the other one, It has a off button plus a better volume control and a shortcut to Netflix button.

I love my shield pro. It is (for now) the only streaming device I recommend. Unless you want to utilize AirPlay then you get an Apple TV. But for all my streaming needs I now just use this. I stopped using my Fire TV products. They were always so slow.

Fantastic streamer. I like this streamer better than my Roku box and the backlit remote is useful and lights up when you pick it up. Roku take note!

I also have the 500GB Pro model from before & it’s only slightly better in my opinion. The upconversion feature works but anything less than 720p gets massive grain so not worth it on that content my Panasonic 4K player blows this away in that department in fact Amazon, Netflix & Youtube content i all watch on the player instead. If you don’t have a shield at all I do highly recommend this for its streaming potential & the fact it supports Dolby Vision the main reason I upgraded. There is supposed to be a better processor in this one but I don’t see any difference between the 2 devices.

Love the shield, way better than the apple TV imo. Have been using the shields for the past few years. The price is pretty high for how long it's been around though

This thing is fast. I love the AI upscaling as well. It's much better than I expected. The interface is easy to use and Google Assistant built in is great. The remote, although an improvement over last generations Shield TV, still leaves a lot of room for improvement. The Netflix button should be programmable, along with a couple more programmable buttons. That's really know only nag. The price is a bit high, but if you want the best streaming box out there, this is probably it.

I had the original Nvidia Shield for over 10+ years. It still works. h However, I wanted to upgrade to the newer version because of my Bose Atmos system and other newer technologies. You can't go wrong with Nvidia, quality and performance that lasts.

The KING of all media players is back. If you have a previous generation of Shield, this is likely not worth upgrading to, however I needed a second Shield, and this thing is AWESOME! The best media player there is hands down. Nothing handles video formats like the SHIELD, and the Shield PRO even has new tech to upscale your SD content. If you have a 4K HDR screen, and want the most flexible, and dependable player, look no further. KODI runs LIKE A CHAMP, HDR video files, all surround sound formats, awesome!!

Can't find a better brand name android box than this here mini power house box that can do way More than just stream movies or game love this item

Love this thing. It’s super snappy and the AI up scaling works really well. The audio it outputs via Atmos is great too. Definitely recommend.

Very happy with this purchase. Just the processor alone is worth it. I've a 85 inch Sony, about 3 or 4 years old and could maintain a strong stream. Plus I had 1 gig up and 1 gig down fiber. The Shield put all of it to bed. No more lag or stuttering. Worth every penny.

Have been contemplating this upgrading from firesticks, chromecast,native smart tv apps, etc, and now wondering whybinwaited so long! Noticeably better picture quality on all streaming apps, faster load times, absolutely no buffering. Have a large plex server library, which is the main reason I made the leap, and so happy i did. And with Best Buy's price match guarantee, i didn't miss out on the price drop that finally happened a month after my purchase, which I was waiting over a year for.

If you do not want Roku or FireTV but want one of the most powerful streamers this is one of the better choices. I really like this but decided to return it due to a Android limitation on High fidelity audio (note other streamers have the same issue I later found out.). A very robust remote, circle control takes a few days to get used to. Does allow some streaming gaming. Small form factor and better connections than some streamers.

Nvidia shield is a great product and easy to use very fluid and smooth and the remote control is excellent on it

I had a 380X tv box for about 7 years, I paid 30 bucks for it online. One day it refused to turn on, so I went to my local Bestbuy to buy another brand box, my firestick was way too slow and I had it in the closet. This is no joke, there was times that pressing a button that would take up to a minute to respond to the command, so I just tossed that piece of garbage to the trash. So, it had to be a firebox, apple TV or something. I saw the shield, looked at the reviews and they were great, but the price was a little too intimidating, then I saw that it had a video pad and free online games. I bought it. The first thing I did not like was that the remote battery died after 3 months, the Google play store no good, I couldn't even install Chrome, neither Firefox browser, I had to go to their respective webpage and I had to download a downloader to make it posible. But it was fast, very fast compared to the rest of my boxes. I could live with that. some of the free to play games(I don't buy new games) I played a few. Everything was tolerable until the expiration of its warranty expired, from then, it became just a piece of junk. Two years with minor and fixable problems. I started to notice that the free to play games were disappearing to count of only 3 games. The Wifi has been messing up very badly, I thought there was no way the shield was failing, so I just kept calling Spectrum almost every 12 hours, until they sent me a technician and he found nothing wrong with my connection. It is just hateful to be watching a game and all of the sudden your streaming ends abruptly out of no reason. I kept blaming Spectrum, I couldn't believe my shield was failing like that. Until I waited for it to drop again, I ran to my laptop, ran a speed test, marvelous; i did the same thing with my son's tablet and the test? Flawless; I tried my cellphone wifi, and everything was just fine. I ran a speed test using the analiti app. I ran the test and it was dead, no wifi(Disconnected, please try again later), I pressed the key to retest it and nothing, then the application gives you the option to reconnect, I did that, and it worked, three hours later it did it again, it became so frustrated that I din't know what to do to reset it. disconnecting from the power cable... thousands of times. resetting through the commands, thousands of times, the problem persisted. I factory reset it to see if there was a software issue, I had to download all my apps back again and yes, it seemed a little faster and worked with no problems the whole day, the day after the problem resumed like I did nothing to it. It became a piece of junk. Now, the it refuses to connect, it don't matter what I do, is dead after two years, 200 hundred dollars for two years of not so good service against 30 bucks for 7 years with a cheap tv box? I thing the tale tell the story itself. Buy cheap boxes, you may die by the fifth one and you won't spend the $200 dollars for an expensive piece of expensive junk. Now I have a beautiful black brick with no wifi. Thanks NVIDIA! Thanks for building a box which only last its warranty. I do not recommend it.

The best andriod TV ... fast process and good picture... I really love it

Get it! dont think about it just get it! Replaced my roku box and i havent looked back since. Watch some youtube videos to see just how much you can do with it. There are soo many things you can do with this that I cant even fit it all into this review.

This thing is too of the line works grate. It even makes some of the videos you watch better with AI up scaling it's impressive.