Customer Ratings & Reviews

It's really no difference between the Nvidia Shield and any other Android TV box

Great device for a Plex or Emby server and is also a chromecast device.

My internet connection is too weak to watch anything. Too much buffering.

This is a good product if you not planning on using DirecTV Now app.

Google needs to work on the user experience. Trying to work this thing is like being exposed to Linux for the first time. A lot of potential, a lot of manual work and annoyances. Doesn’t play you tube videos in true 4K and is just ok. I prefer our Apple TV - we put this in the guest room

The Nvidia Shield was one of the best streamers you could buy. We’ve been happy with our device for many years until recently. Unfortunately, Nvidia and Google are now displaying very large ads across the entire Home Screen. (on a $200 device) The experience is now horrible and I would highly recommend not purchasing this device until they update their software.

The remote quit working one day saying the batteries were low I changed the batteries and the next day it said the batteries were low I contacted their support and got the royal runaround You can’t talk to anybody so everything is done by chat after getting the runaround on several occasions I have decided to give up I will never buy anything thing from them again Total runaround

I would not advise any one to purchase the Nvidia Shield Tv. they have a known issue in that if left idle for a period of time, it will not wake from sleep. I am on my second Sheild Tv, and it has the same issue as the first. A quick check of internet blogs including Nivdia will tell you that this is a known issue for at least a year. I now have a 200.00 brick. At this price point Nvidia must do better.

This thing sucks. Claims to be 4K does not stream in 4K. With gigabit internet service this device buffers a lot

I definitely regret buying. This is the most buggy piece of hardware I've owned. Netflix, Hulu, etc playback is jerky and frequently freezes while audio is still playing. Just browsing the Netflix app causes it to lock up. And this is with 1080p content. Gaming suffers from considerable input lag even with the TV in game mode. My first Nvidia product and I'd honestly never buy from them again.

The Nvidia Shield TV is an incredible device, it does absolutely everything, and does everything perfectly. The Tegra X1 if you do not know has 4 ARM Cortex-A57 high powered cores, and 4 ARM Cortex-A53 unspecified low power cores. Other than using standard ARM reference 64 bit CPU's, everything about how the CPU's interact with the rest of the SoC is completely Nvidia custom engineered brilliance. The CPU's are not what is special about the Tegra X1 in the Shield TV, its the fact that the X1 has a GeForce Maxwell PC architecture GPU with 256 CUDA cores, and comes with all the technologies that PC Maxwell based GPU's have. It's a dual core GPU 128 CUDA cores on each GPU core. It has 3 gigs of very fast dual channel memory, a very effective cooling system. And its designed and built by Nvidia, Nvidia used as much of their own chips as they could but they did have to outsource some of the random chips on the motherboard itself, which is tiny, it's really really easy to open it up to clean dust from the blower fan, two phillips screws, on the left and right of the back, flip it upside down, put your thumbs on the intake vent on the bottom of the unit and just push with your thumbs firmly and the top snaps open and slides forward than you just lift it off, the LED's for the cool green angle that lights up are not attached to the top they are on the motherboard so there is nothing to break, I opened mine up just to see the insides myself, only took the cover off did not gut it, and it is made extremely high quality, the air is drawn straight up from the intake vent on the bottom into the blower fan where it follows a sealed air duct that directs the air out of the rear vent, the heatsink for the Tegra X1 is directly in front of the exhaust vent, and the fan varies in speed and responds to heat very quickly. I don't like streaming games over Geforce Now, I like to download the android based games that are specifically designed to run on the Sheild TV and take full advantage of the Tegra X1's GPU, It can put out graphics as good as most xbox one and ps4 games, coming from a unit that's nearly the size of a cell phone...to me that's incredible and those games the Tegra X1 is doing all the rendering, proving that the X1 SoC can hold its own, and the clock speeds are twice that of the Tegra X1 in the Nintendo Switch, so your getting a lot more powerful gaming machine out of the Shield TV for a lot less money, I bought mine November 2018 at my local best buy when the base model that just comes with the remote on sale for 139.99. I can't believe I got it for that price, I have never used an electronic device as much as I use my Shield TV, and I've already had 5 updates since I've owned it, and than in December Best Buy had the official Shield newly designed controller on sale for 49.99. If your going to do gaming the official controller is a must, I used to use my Xbox One controller, But the Bluetooth controller on the Shield has very limited range and is pretty bad when it comes to lag, you hook up the official controller, which is a really nice controller, it is just as responsive as any videogame console, I like that I can control my TV's volume just by the capacitive touch bar on both the remote and controller, and you can use the OK Google command, use it as your smarthome hub, you don't need a dongle I don't know why they sell that model with the USB dongle for it to be your smarthub, mine controls my Sengled Element Hub perfectly which is my smarthome hub, which controls just about everything in my house. Geforce Now Game streaming from Nvidia's Supercomputer servers is cool, But I have my own gaming Super Computer, So I just prefer to use my Xbox One controller on it which has the official Xbox One controller receiver built in, so I get the exact experience as with an Xbox One X only with a TON better graphics on a 27 inch Curved Samsung Gaming monitor, I use team red gfx cards, so I cant stream from my PC to the Shield so I don't know how well that works, I know there is a workaround for that but I don't care to do it because like I said for gaming on my Shield TV I just use the native Android TV games that are made to run only on the Nvidia Shield TV, most of them by Nvidia Lightspeed Studios. MetalGear Revengence is one of the best of them, buy it, its a remake of the PC version of the game but has been completely souped up for the Tegra X1 SoC. Tomb Raider you can also play natively on the Shield, it looks better than the GeForce Now streaming version, It too was remade to run on the Shield TV and take advantage of all of Tegra X1's bells and whistles, The native Shield TV games are cheaper than console games, the best ones are 14.99, Don't bother getting the Pro version, just get a USB 3.1 HDD, I have a 500GB Toshiba I got for 29.99, and you format it as system memory, than it uses the flash storage kinda like intel speedstep. It caches your most used data to the flash storage and the stuff that isn't used as much stays on the HDD, I'm and IT I apologize for going into so much technical detail but I'm just trying to get the point across that even though this came out in 2015 (remember Xbox One and PS4 came out in 2013) Than they overhauled it in 2017 which is still the version they make today, and with my knowledge of silicon and what I've research the X1 in the 2017 slim model was brought down to 16nm fabrication process, and seems to have some other minor changes, yes, you can side load geekbench 4 on it and the cpu's will seem very slow, that's because something has to be optimized for the X1 to see it's power because everything about the chip is different than how the "normal" mobile ARM based SoC works. I mean look at the graphics the Nintendo Switch puts out, that's on a stock Tegra X1 chip only with clockspeeds of both CPU's and GPU cut in half. It doesn't have a sufficient cooling system to rock The X1 at full clock speeds, even when docked its not fully clocked again because the very small heat sink whick is attached to the chip via a flat heat pipe. With the Shield TV the Tegra X1 is directly on the heatsink with of course thermal paste to properly transfer the heat away from to chip and into the heatsink where the air blowing across the fins carries the heat out the exhaust vent of the unit. It's easy to navigate the OS, coming from "streaming devices" which I just cant call the Shield TV that, to a Shield you will understand why I wrote this with such enthusiasm, It's a custom version Android TV Nvidia Edition, this is more of what a proper computer attached to a TV should be. I have a 4K TV and watch a lot of 4K Netflix shows and its extraordinary. I use my gaming PC a lot less, you can even surf the web, just download Puffin Browser, its a web browser made for Android TV, and its free. You can play games like a computer, you can access social media like a computer, you can have multiple apps running at once like a computer, you can browse the web like a computer, If you want an android TV device, The Shield TV is the only one to get, if you go with a china special you get a cheap paperweight with cpu's that specs are exaggerated tremendously, no other Android TV device has half the power of the Shield TV and when it comes to the GPU, they aren't even in the same league as the Shield TV. Same with software, only the Shield TV has games custom made for its hardware that run natively on the system. JUST GO GET ONE ALREADY!

Doesn't work properly unless you have the highest wifi-internet speed. Waste of money.

I cannot get it to do what I would like it to. Loading the xfinity app,

Not got on buffering when using Kodi. Not good for my needs.

Heard that this was the latest and most advanced streaming device out so I tried it and found it doesn't have hardly any App's. If you want to watch Netflix or Amazon get it. Anything else you're out of luck. Roku Ultra is still the best.

I am blown away by this , coming from a 2107 Roku ultra that I regret buying this thing blows Roku out of the water , if you care about vid quality and details then this IS what you want . True it is more expensive , BUT in this case you do get what you pay for . And this can be customized search you tube for details . Thinking about a Roku , DON'T and learn form my bad experience with the Roku ultra

This device died suddenly in less than two months.

I have the 2015 version of this 2017 model and while it will stream and run everything the 2015 version will, it does not have an IR receiver for remote controls such as how the Sony TV remote can control the 2015 version. Also the 2015 version has an sd card slot, this one does not. Also the 2015 version could be turned off and on by touching the nvidia logo on the unit, the 2017 cannot. Also the remote that comes with the 2017 does not have a headphone jack and has replaceable batteries rather than rechargable batteries. These are perhaps minor differences but should be pointed out and the reason I only gave it 4 stars. Other then that, it performs as well as its predecessor and I would recommend it.

I love my Shield TV, but have now had two different remotes stop working all together. I have tried everything to get them working again and have not been able to do so. Nvidia customer service won't help me. Tired of buying $50 remotes only to have them break.

This device is really fast faster than my other streaming devices that i had previously mainly roku, decided to get this instead of the roku ultra mainly cause of the specs the nvidia shield. plus you can game if you want but im just using it to watch my movies that i have on an external hard drive with plex and kodi and other player that this thing has the possibilities are endless