When I looked on their forums it send to open a ticket online but when I would go to that page it would not let you submit without getting an error. I'll have to look up their number and give it a try. Thank you so much!
Brad, Thanks for the graeat Video. What is your experience in playing 1:1 4k RIP with (Dolby Vison and Atmos) ? I saw some forums talking about device heat .. Can you please share your experience after 1 year of use of this device
I have not noticed any overheating issues in our regular use but I don't know if I have anything that specifically has Dolby vision and Atmos so I will have to take a look at my library or see if there are some samples online I can test with and let you know. I know with running the latest version of firmware everything has been stable and no issues with my configuration.
@bklynkrash Sounds like you might need to enable HDMI-CEC on your TV. Check this article out: www.howtogeek.com/207186/how-to-enable-hdmi-cec-on-your-tv-and-why-you-should/
I think you just inadvertently text a problem for me. I have a Samsun 3.0 solid state drive.And my Nvidia shield remote coming disconnected and I believe the Nvidia shield remote is Bluetooth. So I did what you said and wrapped by hard drive in aluminum foil hopefully that solves a problem because it’s a pain in the ass I’ll update you thank you.
No it did not but I bought a new remote nvidia pro remote .It will arrive Saturday I’m not sure how to program the remote because I have all my apps on there perfectly so if you could possibly send me a link, but mind you all my apps are perfect I just want to get the remote to work the way used to. Because across From the back button the round button Always bring me to the home screen of the Nvidia shield pro and that’s with the work but what I did I went into button manager and programmed it for the main screen to come up after a long click but I like things perfect so like I said if you could send me a link on how to just basically program the remote to the Nvidia shield pro I’ll be happy. You’ve been so helpful thank you for everything and your concern greatly greatly appreciate
Here's a link on how to pair the new remote. www.nvidia.com/en-us/shield/connect/#shield-remote IF you can email me through the contact page and send me a link to a video of how it currently behaves I can try to better understand what it's doing. Did you setup your phone as a backup remote yet? With the new remote it has a find remote feature which is great since my kids lose it all the time.
Nvidia remote is the worst. Way too touchy and always stops working for no reason. I spend more time in help forums trying to figure it out. Never again.
@Scott Tait I prefer watching paint dry over watching windows updates, but what would you recommend how I could improve my content moving forward to be better than watching paint dry? Now this is one of my earlier videos, so I definitely made improvement since then but I'm definitely open to any constructive criticism to help improve my channel and help out my viewers with any technical problems or issues. If you have a moment I invite you to check out some of my newer videos, the ones I release on Tuesdays are typically pretty short and to the point if you're looking for a shorter video and the ones on Fridays are typically longer and more technical.
@Raif Tabucic I'm just one person but typically when I am referencing "we" then I am usually referencing my family which there is four of us in the household, however if I am referencing that "we" need to make a change or stand up for something then I am inferring you as the user as "we". This Nvidia shield is still our daily driver on our main TV and have changed different subscription services a couple of times now but in this video I did rant about DirecTV's unethical billing practices. Does this answer your question?
Shiny tech things, did you use shield tv on a 4k tv? what brand? because 4k tvs themselves do the natural work of uppscalling, if it was on a 4k tv then does shield still work better than 4k tv itself? i'm in doubt between apple tv and shied tv
Yes it was on a 4K UHD TV the part of the video that I made with my phone in the first video I did on the shield you can actually see the printed words in the background get sharper on RUclips. I'm blown away by how well this works. If you are still unsure if recommend buying from a local retailer and test it out and if you're unsatisfied then return it and try out another device. It is by far the most powerful box you can buy hands down, but if you only want to stream stuff and aren't impressed with the upscaling then I'd recommend a Amazon Fire Stick 4K which I have on another TV in the house at a fraction of the cost. But if you game on it then the Nvidia shield pro for sure.
Anyone having issues with getting a 401 error code when trying to log into an app? I have installed the app and logged into it successfully on multiple fire sticks and even on another nvidia shield tv. I’m not sure if the other one was the pro version. Any help greatly appreciated.
I need help I drop my Nvidia shield Clicker 2019 and the home button doesn’t work that’s the button to the right of the go back but it doesn’t take me to the main video sell where I have all my programs how can I fix it to work
It depends on what all was damaged. First I would take a good up close look with magnification to see if the button somehow got unaligned underneath the plastic and above the rubber gasket piece that pushes the button up towards the case. I'm assuming that you already removed the batteries and put them back in and it still has the same issue correct? Depending on the response from you as to what you see you may end up needing to attempt repairing it and being okay with possibly completely breaking it or replacing it but more on that in just a sec. what you can do for the time being is installed The shield app on your phone and as long as you are connected via Wi-Fi to the same network you can control the shield with your phone as the remote. Now if you end up having to replace it then I would check to see if it is still under any warranty as well as if you might have purchased it using a credit card like the Costco Citi card or American Express as they can sometimes double or triple your warranty. Let me know and I'll do the best I can to help out.
I have to agree with everything you said. I wish i knew about shielding my usb 3.0 ssd hdd before going out and buying a nvidia shield controller to solve that lagging problem. I have 2 perfectly good PS4 controllers i could have used instead. I do love my shield and it's a beast, it loads much faster than my firestick, firetv, or roku devices.
Can you try wrapping your ssd hdd and try pairing the ps4 controllers? Can both function simultaneously without lag? I'm going buy off Craigslist and need info. Thanks!
I don't remember if I tried our PS4 controllers or not since I have a dedicated controller for it. I wrapped the SSD and USB to SATA adapter with tin foil and it works fine now. No more drops on the controller to the shield.
Is it worth to buy it ? With that problems and that storage problems ? I thought I could install all games and apps on usb stick or external hard drive ! But if that's impossible then the nvidia shield tv 2019 is a bad design! Thank you for your honesty and Effort. Best regards,
It really just depends on how much stuff you want to install on it there's not really any better hardware from a competitor that I am aware of even now in 2021. If you are looking to just install lots of games then you might be better off building a home theater PC (HTPC) instead of using an Android or TV box type solution. Just recently my SSD might have failed (I need to disconnect it and connect it to a Linux computer to take a look and see what exactly happened but either the drive is dead or something got messed up with one of the partitions) so once I finish that then with all of the software improvements since the original release I will probably do another video update on this because lots of things have been fixed so it could be a good fit for you. What exactly are you looking to be running?
Thanks for your share.My new shield TV Pro 2019 remote light didn't work suddenly.In my opinion,the remote's qunality is bad.Is there someone's same to me?
I'm not sure what the failure rate is on the remote. Did you try removing the batteries for q bit and then out them back in? Could also be a bad accelerometer from the factory that you may need to contact Nvidia for a replacement under warranty.
You need to go into settings then into remote and accessories then scroll down to IR TV enable it make sure everything is enable bam easy pz. Remote will now turn on turn on device as well and turn everything off.
I'll have to check that out, never dug that deep into the settings. Might disable lights to increase the battery life because my kids can't hold still when they have the remote. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
All other buttons work except for the home button I just wanna be able to click on it and go to my main screen on my Nvidia shield pro, It Hass to be something in settings
@Stephen Kisty I thought I replied to you and this was a long time ago but it came up as a comment without a response. Did you get this working? It sounds like something got under the button. Was anything ever spilled on the remote? There could be sugar from a drink under the button gunking it up or some other debris. If you press, hold and wiggle the button does it work?
Just curious. My new Nvidia shield remote is killing battery life. I can put two brand new Duracells in the remote and within a week I'm replacing them, and that's with minimal use.
Fist double check that you have all firmware up to date because the controller does have its own firmware. Next, the next time it stops working take the batteries out out and put them back in again first before changing them out. I've had the batteries get loose from my kid dropping. Also interactive shows on Netflix because holding the remote with any motion triggers the lights which drains the batteries. We just buy the mega pack from Costco Kirkland brand batteries. They last over a month if the kids don't use it because they hold the remote all the time. Be sure to install the shield app on your phone as a backup remote.
Good insight. Note, that there is apparently an option to move the internal storage over to an external HD/SSD plugged in via USB. So you're not limited to 16 GB. Also one important feature I've found the Shield Pro to have, is being able to run Plex Media Server. Amazon's Fire TV 4K does not support this. Nvidia Shield Pro can run the CPU intensive transcoding processes, which are required by Plex. Thus, you do not need an expensive WD NAS system, or separate PC running Plex Media Server. Big plus for Shield Pro.
Yes, you can run a Plex server on it, however it could impact your performance as it's transcoding streams for friends or family while you are playing a game on it. Nvidia says under certain conditions and formats using h.264 you could do up to 2-3 streams as a Plex server. support.plex.tv/articles/221099648-limitations-when-running-plex-media-server-on-nvidia-shield/ So if you want more streams and no performance impact while playing games then a dedicated Intel Celeron CPU with quicksync and Plex pass to use hardware acceleration will outperform this and being separate so performance of the shield won't take a hit while gaming.
@@ShinyTechThings im using tidal and Spotify. Took an allnighter yesterday with this problem. Had to listen to songs while eleminating all my components. Im using the shield to tv, and optical from tv to reciever. No sorround is enabeled, have turn all that stuff off. When i play from musiccast, play from tv or just using my tuner, no drops. But thru the shield i get i micro stutter very often. It is only for a fraction of a second, but it is rly annoying:( was that way with the MI box s to. Both ude android
@@ShinyTechThings btw, om using wired. I read somewhere that using wifi eleminates the stutter . Like the Ethernet is the problem? About to try that out now.
I wonder if it's looping sound to or from HDMI on top of the optical audio? I know my receiver creates a delay when there's 4K connected so I just connect to the TV and then optical to the receiver
That's weird if it makes a difference. Unless your WiFi is faster than your ethernet. Do you have full gigabit? Check the cable, some only have 4 wires instead of 8 which makes it run at 10/100.
I agree, but if all you have is a shield it could work but there's a ton of variables. I would not recommend to transcode more than 1-2 streams reliably so direct play by pre-encoding content for direct playing on your client devices. You can even do this with a raspberry pi but again direct play is the key for it to work. Stay tuned as I'm working on a Ultimate Budget Plex server video video series.
The base model costs $149.99, while the Nvidia Shield TV Pro (2019) is priced at $199.99 which is the one I'm reviewing. The base model is in the shape of a tube and has less RAM. For some this won't make a difference but since I have kids who want to play games it can provide more performance by having it.
Hi thank you so much for the fast reply, the home button does work but it doesn’t go through the main page it goes back to what was playing last instead of opening up all my apps on my Nvidia shield pro, so it does work but I think there’s something in the settings that I have to do where I can get it back to my main screen instead of a station I was watching before
Oh, I understand. I thought you dropped it and it stopped working like something got broke inside or dislodged. First I would setup your phone as a backup remote, then try doing a hard reset on the remote following the documentation: news.tvstreamin.com/reset-nvidia-shield-remote-control/
@@ShinyTechThings No but I want on map button and set it to where I long press the whole menu will come on, I wanna thank you so much for your concern and help I will let everyone of my friends know about you! But I ordered a new Nvidia shield remote and hopefully I can find something A link on reprogramming it, maybe you have one my friend on what to do, if I lost my remote I would have to buy one anyway, so I figured it’s best to buy one because I love the way the button automatically went back to the home screen, by chance do you have a link on how to reprogram a new stick but I have All my apps and everything I want maybe you could please help me there , Id greatly appreciate it
Thank you! Here's a button mapper but it's a 3rd party app. www.androidpolice.com/2019/10/30/shield-tv-remote-remap-netflix/?amp I'll have to look and see if there's any stuff deep in the menus. I thought I read about it somewhere but can't find it now 🤷♂️
Sure its a great streaming platform offers more things that can be done with it like play games what if some one don't play games or is not in to that seen the thing is boasting about power to stream but buffers a bit more then one will have patience for what advice can you give to troubleshoot to speed things up been trying a few things nothing at this time works any type of tips to get things to open up Thank you in advance
If you are saying that you are buffering videos I'll break it down a little more for you. If legitimate video sources like Netflix and Hulu are buffering you either have too slow of internet or poor wifi so try to hardwire it. If hardwired and those services still buffer then it's a ISP or route issue from your location to the destination. Now if it's the pirated video torrenting stuff that's buffering it's because your ISP is deprioritizes torrent traffic to discourage the behavior. You may or may not have luck with a VPN to get around this. Now if it's a Plex server at a friend's who lives 20 miles away and they don't have an upstream issue then it's the ISP tampering with traffic again. Do a point to point VPN to your friends and then stream it. Hope that clears it up but let me know. I know some people who got the tube one of the shield that's cheaper and they like it but their Wi-Fi goes to sleep sometimes and doesn't come back up without a reboot
@@ShinyTechThings yeah its alot like you have mentioned we do watch a few movies not all of thes streaming apps go in to a buffering tirades I once thought it was a gigabyte thing with that long list of streamers going through to find something that works and at times nothing they will be buffering then it goes in to a waiting game to see the movie in question I do have it hard wired I have a cat 8 to it and a cat 8 to the router as I was saying have trie a few things and something you said was a provider issue i will keep hunting less you may know some other tips and tricks or some type powerful performance hacks thank you for such a speady reply thank again in advance
The internal storage is only 16GB, you can add additional storage via the USB ports, however not all apps and games support storing all of their data on the external media.
There is no documented limitations on the size of the drive that you can install as a USB drive so as of right now the largest 3.5" HDD that I've seen is 16TB. Next year in 2020 we should see MAMR (Microwave Assisted Magnetic Recording) disks up to 18TB and 20TB. capacities.
Did I mess up on something or need to clarify something? This is one of my earlier videos so I definitely have improved to some have told me so on my performance in front of the camera as well as better video equipment and on my last video released yesterday just upgraded my sound a bit as well. Today I forgot to turn on the sound amplifier during an unboxing using my new sound gear 🤦♂️🤣
The shield has major problems with CEC and ARC. Nvidia needs to sort it out but still has not from 3 updates ago at minimum, they say switch of CEC. What the heck did we spend load of money for. my panasonic tv and denon amp switch back on after being switched off, it can be couple of minutes to 10 minutes or lot more. about time we got what we paid for. Nvidia.
From what I've read most manufacturers don't follow the specs of the protocols. I have mine setup like this (Shield TV Pro --> LG TV --> Onkyo Receiver) the connection between the TV and my Receiver is over an optical audio cable. When I use the shield remote it turns on and off the TV and wakes up or sleeps the shield. Audio controls pass through just fine in my configuration to the receiver. What does your configuration look like?
@@ShinyTechThings I have a panasonic tv with shield connected via hdmi from denon amp, via ARC, setting are switched to HDMI control on, ARC on. Had to sw off CRC switch on shield on all three settings in display , turn on tv, set tv input to shield and wake shield. When either or all of these are on shield wakes randomly when everything is switched of. Hope that makes sense.?.
So it looks like this on your end? Shield --> Receiver --> TV? Have you tried like my configuration to see if the TV can go the other direction to the receiver via optical audio?
@@ShinyTechThings no. Not yet. Thing is. All was well and has been fot about 18 months. But since i think last two updates they have really messed the system up. I use it for Dolby x, and Dolby atoms . Will that still work fine. ?
can you plug a 2tb external ntfs drive with mkv and mp4 movies n tv shows and play with the default shield video player (if there is one) without having to install stuff. I'd like to be able to unplug the hard drive, move it to my PC and delete and load new movies to it from time to time, then plug it back into the sheild and watch. Like the micca player I used to have. nice vid.
From what I remember when I plugged it in it reformatted it for EXT3 or 4. I'll have to unplug it and check from my Linux box and let you know. Might be a few days though with the holidays here, schedule is crazy right now.
@@ShinyTechThings ok. I'm on windows so it would be NFTS formatted to allow for the large mkv files. The micca player I just plug in the drive and go to the folder with the movies. I'm hoping its that easy with the Shield without having to jump through hoops.
@@busywl69 I haven't tried it yet but I will and I'll post a video on it. I've been sick so I've not been on any of my devices for days. Just starting to get back online. Not sure what's worse, being sick or having Wi-Fi withdrawals from being sick 🤓🤣
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You have to call customer service to get geoforce code right away, same day. I was mad until I thought to call. They should list that in box.
When I looked on their forums it send to open a ticket online but when I would go to that page it would not let you submit without getting an error. I'll have to look up their number and give it a try. Thank you so much!
That worked! I'll post a detailed update on this soon! Thank you so much!
Thanks again for the tip, I made another video and posted the link they send you. ruclips.net/video/Rzf7IPOzVKQ/видео.html
go to developer options and look for "force apps to install to external storage"
Brad, Thanks for the graeat Video. What is your experience in playing 1:1 4k RIP with (Dolby Vison and Atmos) ? I saw some forums talking about device heat .. Can you please share your experience after 1 year of use of this device
I have not noticed any overheating issues in our regular use but I don't know if I have anything that specifically has Dolby vision and Atmos so I will have to take a look at my library or see if there are some samples online I can test with and let you know. I know with running the latest version of firmware everything has been stable and no issues with my configuration.
My Shield Pro remote won't turn tv on. Once I get the tv turned on using the tv remote, the Shield remote works fine. Any ideas?
@bklynkrash Sounds like you might need to enable HDMI-CEC on your TV. Check this article out: www.howtogeek.com/207186/how-to-enable-hdmi-cec-on-your-tv-and-why-you-should/
Your channel thumbnail is awfully close to LTT....
I think you just inadvertently text a problem for me. I have a Samsun 3.0 solid state drive.And my Nvidia shield remote coming disconnected and I believe the Nvidia shield remote is Bluetooth. So I did what you said and wrapped by hard drive in aluminum foil hopefully that solves a problem because it’s a pain in the ass I’ll update you thank you.
@Richard Vacanti Hopefully that helps or solves the issue. Please let me know either way.
No it did not but I bought a new remote nvidia pro remote .It will arrive Saturday I’m not sure how to program the remote because I have all my apps on there perfectly so if you could possibly send me a link, but mind you all my apps are perfect I just want to get the remote to work the way used to. Because across From the back button the round button Always bring me to the home screen of the Nvidia shield pro and that’s with the work but what I did I went into button manager and programmed it for the main screen to come up after a long click but I like things perfect so like I said if you could send me a link on how to just basically program the remote to the Nvidia shield pro I’ll be happy. You’ve been so helpful thank you for everything and your concern greatly greatly appreciate
Here's a link on how to pair the new remote. www.nvidia.com/en-us/shield/connect/#shield-remote
IF you can email me through the contact page and send me a link to a video of how it currently behaves I can try to better understand what it's doing. Did you setup your phone as a backup remote yet? With the new remote it has a find remote feature which is great since my kids lose it all the time.
Nvidia remote is the worst. Way too touchy and always stops working for no reason. I spend more time in help forums trying to figure it out. Never again.
What gen shield do you have?
Sorry would rather watch paint dry
@Scott Tait I prefer watching paint dry over watching windows updates, but what would you recommend how I could improve my content moving forward to be better than watching paint dry? Now this is one of my earlier videos, so I definitely made improvement since then but I'm definitely open to any constructive criticism to help improve my channel and help out my viewers with any technical problems or issues. If you have a moment I invite you to check out some of my newer videos, the ones I release on Tuesdays are typically pretty short and to the point if you're looking for a shorter video and the ones on Fridays are typically longer and more technical.
"We"? How many people are you?
@Raif Tabucic I'm just one person but typically when I am referencing "we" then I am usually referencing my family which there is four of us in the household, however if I am referencing that "we" need to make a change or stand up for something then I am inferring you as the user as "we". This Nvidia shield is still our daily driver on our main TV and have changed different subscription services a couple of times now but in this video I did rant about DirecTV's unethical billing practices. Does this answer your question?
When you broke out the foil I thought you were going to make yourself a hat ")
I look awkward as it is, more awkward wearing any type of hat 🤣🤣🤣🤣.
But seriously it fixes the problem, it's just poor shielding.
Shiny tech things, did you use shield tv on a 4k tv? what brand? because 4k tvs themselves do the natural work of uppscalling, if it was on a 4k tv then does shield still work better than 4k tv itself?
i'm in doubt between apple tv and shied tv
Yes it was on a 4K UHD TV the part of the video that I made with my phone in the first video I did on the shield you can actually see the printed words in the background get sharper on RUclips. I'm blown away by how well this works. If you are still unsure if recommend buying from a local retailer and test it out and if you're unsatisfied then return it and try out another device. It is by far the most powerful box you can buy hands down, but if you only want to stream stuff and aren't impressed with the upscaling then I'd recommend a Amazon Fire Stick 4K which I have on another TV in the house at a fraction of the cost. But if you game on it then the Nvidia shield pro for sure.
3 minutes in I show the upscaling ruclips.net/video/YuadjavW038/видео.html
I forgot to mention that it's a LG 4K UHD TV that it's on in my video.
Anyone having issues with getting a 401 error code when trying to log into an app? I have installed the app and logged into it successfully on multiple fire sticks and even on another nvidia shield tv. I’m not sure if the other one was the pro version. Any help greatly appreciated.
Which app or all apps?
How do you stop the clicking noise on the remote when moving around
@sam gooch how loud is your remote when clicking around with the buttons?
@@ShinyTechThings really noisy but ai want to mute it
@sam gooch how New is your controller?
@@ShinyTechThings 2019
@@ShinyTechThings it goes click click
I need help I drop my Nvidia shield Clicker 2019 and the home button doesn’t work that’s the button to the right of the go back but it doesn’t take me to the main video sell where I have all my programs how can I fix it to work
It depends on what all was damaged. First I would take a good up close look with magnification to see if the button somehow got unaligned underneath the plastic and above the rubber gasket piece that pushes the button up towards the case. I'm assuming that you already removed the batteries and put them back in and it still has the same issue correct? Depending on the response from you as to what you see you may end up needing to attempt repairing it and being okay with possibly completely breaking it or replacing it but more on that in just a sec. what you can do for the time being is installed The shield app on your phone and as long as you are connected via Wi-Fi to the same network you can control the shield with your phone as the remote. Now if you end up having to replace it then I would check to see if it is still under any warranty as well as if you might have purchased it using a credit card like the Costco Citi card or American Express as they can sometimes double or triple your warranty. Let me know and I'll do the best I can to help out.
I have to agree with everything you said. I wish i knew about shielding my usb 3.0 ssd hdd before going out and buying a nvidia shield controller to solve that lagging problem. I have 2 perfectly good PS4 controllers i could have used instead. I do love my shield and it's a beast, it loads much faster than my firestick, firetv, or roku devices.
It might not look pretty but it's effective.
Can you try wrapping your ssd hdd and try pairing the ps4 controllers? Can both function simultaneously without lag?
I'm going buy off Craigslist and need info. Thanks!
I don't remember if I tried our PS4 controllers or not since I have a dedicated controller for it. I wrapped the SSD and USB to SATA adapter with tin foil and it works fine now. No more drops on the controller to the shield.
Is it worth to buy it ? With that problems and that storage problems ? I thought I could install all games and apps on usb stick or external hard drive ! But if that's impossible then the nvidia shield tv 2019 is a bad design! Thank you for your honesty and
Effort.
Best regards,
It really just depends on how much stuff you want to install on it there's not really any better hardware from a competitor that I am aware of even now in 2021. If you are looking to just install lots of games then you might be better off building a home theater PC (HTPC) instead of using an Android or TV box type solution. Just recently my SSD might have failed (I need to disconnect it and connect it to a Linux computer to take a look and see what exactly happened but either the drive is dead or something got messed up with one of the partitions) so once I finish that then with all of the software improvements since the original release I will probably do another video update on this because lots of things have been fixed so it could be a good fit for you. What exactly are you looking to be running?
Thanks for your share.My new shield TV Pro 2019 remote light didn't work suddenly.In my opinion,the remote's qunality is bad.Is there someone's same to me?
I'm not sure what the failure rate is on the remote. Did you try removing the batteries for q bit and then out them back in? Could also be a bad accelerometer from the factory that you may need to contact Nvidia for a replacement under warranty.
You need to go into settings then into remote and accessories then scroll down to IR TV enable it make sure everything is enable bam easy pz. Remote will now turn on turn on device as well and turn everything off.
I'll have to check that out, never dug that deep into the settings. Might disable lights to increase the battery life because my kids can't hold still when they have the remote. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
All other buttons work except for the home button I just wanna be able to click on it and go to my main screen on my Nvidia shield pro, It Hass to be something in settings
@Stephen Kisty I thought I replied to you and this was a long time ago but it came up as a comment without a response. Did you get this working? It sounds like something got under the button. Was anything ever spilled on the remote? There could be sugar from a drink under the button gunking it up or some other debris. If you press, hold and wiggle the button does it work?
Just curious. My new Nvidia shield remote is killing battery life. I can put two brand new Duracells in the remote and within a week I'm replacing them, and that's with minimal use.
Fist double check that you have all firmware up to date because the controller does have its own firmware. Next, the next time it stops working take the batteries out out and put them back in again first before changing them out. I've had the batteries get loose from my kid dropping. Also interactive shows on Netflix because holding the remote with any motion triggers the lights which drains the batteries. We just buy the mega pack from Costco Kirkland brand batteries. They last over a month if the kids don't use it because they hold the remote all the time. Be sure to install the shield app on your phone as a backup remote.
Good insight.
Note, that there is apparently an option to move the internal storage over to an external HD/SSD plugged in via USB. So you're not limited to 16 GB.
Also one important feature I've found the Shield Pro to have, is being able to run Plex Media Server.
Amazon's Fire TV 4K does not support this.
Nvidia Shield Pro can run the CPU intensive transcoding processes, which are required by Plex.
Thus, you do not need an expensive WD NAS system, or separate PC running Plex Media Server. Big plus for Shield Pro.
Yes, you can run a Plex server on it, however it could impact your performance as it's transcoding streams for friends or family while you are playing a game on it. Nvidia says under certain conditions and formats using
h.264 you could do up to 2-3 streams as a Plex server.
support.plex.tv/articles/221099648-limitations-when-running-plex-media-server-on-nvidia-shield/
So if you want more streams and no performance impact while playing games then a dedicated Intel Celeron CPU with quicksync and Plex pass to use hardware acceleration will outperform this and being separate so performance of the shield won't take a hit while gaming.
Audio problem still not fixed. Gonna return the shield pro. Audio stutter from one to time. Just a millisecond. But happens 2-3 times per song.
What app are you using to play the music? Are you on Wi-Fi or hard wired? What's your audio config?
@@ShinyTechThings im using tidal and Spotify. Took an allnighter yesterday with this problem. Had to listen to songs while eleminating all my components. Im using the shield to tv, and optical from tv to reciever. No sorround is enabeled, have turn all that stuff off. When i play from musiccast, play from tv or just using my tuner, no drops. But thru the shield i get i micro stutter very often. It is only for a fraction of a second, but it is rly annoying:( was that way with the MI box s to. Both ude android
@@ShinyTechThings btw, om using wired. I read somewhere that using wifi eleminates the stutter . Like the Ethernet is the problem? About to try that out now.
I wonder if it's looping sound to or from HDMI on top of the optical audio? I know my receiver creates a delay when there's 4K connected so I just connect to the TV and then optical to the receiver
That's weird if it makes a difference. Unless your WiFi is faster than your ethernet. Do you have full gigabit? Check the cable, some only have 4 wires instead of 8 which makes it run at 10/100.
Plex media no on the shield tv, just buy a nas and let that do it.
I agree, but if all you have is a shield it could work but there's a ton of variables. I would not recommend to transcode more than 1-2 streams reliably so direct play by pre-encoding content for direct playing on your client devices. You can even do this with a raspberry pi but again direct play is the key for it to work. Stay tuned as I'm working on a Ultimate Budget Plex server video video series.
Can I use this to play back videos from my hard drives? thanks
I haven't tried as I pull from my network storage but would assume you could install VLC player and open the videos from there.
Nice hack with the aluminum.
It works and as an SSD, I'm not worried about heat. I'm curious to see IF or how it handles TRIM over long term.
If the USB drive is in a metal inclosure, that could provide the shielding to reduce Bluetooth interference.
Is there a particular enclosure that you would like me to buy and test on my channel for you?
That Nvidia shield pro looks cool, how much are they?
The base model costs $149.99, while the Nvidia Shield TV Pro (2019) is priced at $199.99 which is the one I'm reviewing. The base model is in the shape of a tube and has less RAM. For some this won't make a difference but since I have kids who want to play games it can provide more performance by having it.
Hi thank you so much for the fast reply, the home button does work but it doesn’t go through the main page it goes back to what was playing last instead of opening up all my apps on my Nvidia shield pro, so it does work but I think there’s something in the settings that I have to do where I can get it back to my main screen instead of a station I was watching before
Oh, I understand. I thought you dropped it and it stopped working like something got broke inside or dislodged. First I would setup your phone as a backup remote, then try doing a hard reset on the remote following the documentation: news.tvstreamin.com/reset-nvidia-shield-remote-control/
Did the hard reset work?
@@ShinyTechThings No but I want on map button and set it to where I long press the whole menu will come on, I wanna thank you so much for your concern and help I will let everyone of my friends know about you! But I ordered a new Nvidia shield remote and hopefully I can find something A link on reprogramming it, maybe you have one my friend on what to do, if I lost my remote I would have to buy one anyway, so I figured it’s best to buy one because I love the way the button automatically went back to the home screen, by chance do you have a link on how to reprogram a new stick but I have All my apps and everything I want maybe you could please help me there , Id greatly appreciate it
Thank you! Here's a button mapper but it's a 3rd party app. www.androidpolice.com/2019/10/30/shield-tv-remote-remap-netflix/?amp
I'll have to look and see if there's any stuff deep in the menus. I thought I read about it somewhere but can't find it now 🤷♂️
Sure its a great streaming platform offers more things that can be done with it like play games what if some one don't play games or is not in to that seen the thing is boasting about power to stream but buffers a bit more then one will have patience for what advice can you give to troubleshoot to speed things up been trying a few things nothing at this time works any type of tips to get things to open up
Thank you in advance
If you are saying that you are buffering videos I'll break it down a little more for you. If legitimate video sources like Netflix and Hulu are buffering you either have too slow of internet or poor wifi so try to hardwire it. If hardwired and those services still buffer then it's a ISP or route issue from your location to the destination. Now if it's the pirated video torrenting stuff that's buffering it's because your ISP is deprioritizes torrent traffic to discourage the behavior. You may or may not have luck with a VPN to get around this. Now if it's a Plex server at a friend's who lives 20 miles away and they don't have an upstream issue then it's the ISP tampering with traffic again. Do a point to point VPN to your friends and then stream it. Hope that clears it up but let me know. I know some people who got the tube one of the shield that's cheaper and they like it but their Wi-Fi goes to sleep sometimes and doesn't come back up without a reboot
@@ShinyTechThings yeah its alot like you have mentioned we do watch a few movies not all of thes streaming apps go in to a buffering tirades I once thought it was a gigabyte thing with that long list of streamers going through to find something that works and at times nothing they will be buffering then it goes in to a waiting game to see the movie in question I do have it hard wired I have a cat 8 to it and a cat 8 to the router as I was saying have trie a few things and something you said was a provider issue i will keep hunting less you may know some other tips and tricks or some type powerful performance hacks
thank you for such a speady reply
thank again in advance
Try using a VPN. If it still has an issue I would need to know the source of the stream.
Brad thanks for taking time and Explaining everything well !! Your Passion and Skill are AMAZING 👍👍🚀
I live and love tech, someday hopefully I'll make some $ on RUclips to be able to help afford my tech addiction 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I'm hypnotized by your eyes.
Thank you I guess?🤷♂️
Thank you, very informative. 👍
I'll probably make another video of two on this in the next month or so. Stay tuned for more 😁
How much storage space can the Nvidia Shield TV Pro support
The internal storage is only 16GB, you can add additional storage via the USB ports, however not all apps and games support storing all of their data on the external media.
@@ShinyTechThings no what i meant was how much external storage space can you put on the Nvidia Shield TV pro
There is no documented limitations on the size of the drive that you can install as a USB drive so as of right now the largest 3.5" HDD that I've seen is 16TB. Next year in 2020 we should see MAMR (Microwave Assisted Magnetic Recording) disks up to 18TB and 20TB. capacities.
128 GB
I have a 128GB SSD attached for additional storage.
lol I can explain why? humbly. I apologize I had to laugh.
I think I'm missing a comment or can't see from my phone for some reason. What's up?
@@ShinyTechThings lol ok
Did I mess up on something or need to clarify something? This is one of my earlier videos so I definitely have improved to some have told me so on my performance in front of the camera as well as better video equipment and on my last video released yesterday just upgraded my sound a bit as well. Today I forgot to turn on the sound amplifier during an unboxing using my new sound gear 🤦♂️🤣
@@ShinyTechThings your fine. I will get back to you.
Sounds good, thanks!👍
The shield has major problems with CEC and ARC. Nvidia needs to sort it out but still has not from 3 updates ago at minimum, they say switch of CEC. What the heck did we spend load of money for. my panasonic tv and denon amp switch back on after being switched off, it can be couple of minutes to 10 minutes or lot more. about time we got what we paid for. Nvidia.
From what I've read most manufacturers don't follow the specs of the protocols. I have mine setup like this (Shield TV Pro --> LG TV --> Onkyo Receiver) the connection between the TV and my Receiver is over an optical audio cable. When I use the shield remote it turns on and off the TV and wakes up or sleeps the shield. Audio controls pass through just fine in my configuration to the receiver. What does your configuration look like?
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I have a panasonic tv with shield connected via hdmi from denon amp, via ARC, setting are switched to HDMI control on, ARC on. Had to sw off CRC switch on shield on all three settings in display , turn on tv, set tv input to shield and wake shield. When either or all of these are on shield wakes randomly when everything is switched of. Hope that makes sense.?.
Oh and sleep CEC is switched off as well
So it looks like this on your end?
Shield --> Receiver --> TV? Have you tried like my configuration to see if the TV can go the other direction to the receiver via optical audio?
@@ShinyTechThings no. Not yet. Thing is. All was well and has been fot about 18 months. But since i think last two updates they have really messed the system up. I use it for Dolby x, and Dolby atoms . Will that still work fine. ?
can you plug a 2tb external ntfs drive with mkv and mp4 movies n tv shows and play with the default shield video player (if there is one) without having to install stuff. I'd like to be able to unplug the hard drive, move it to my PC and delete and load new movies to it from time to time, then plug it back into the sheild and watch. Like the micca player I used to have. nice vid.
From what I remember when I plugged it in it reformatted it for EXT3 or 4. I'll have to unplug it and check from my Linux box and let you know. Might be a few days though with the holidays here, schedule is crazy right now.
@@ShinyTechThings ok. I'm on windows so it would be NFTS formatted to allow for the large mkv files. The micca player I just plug in the drive and go to the folder with the movies. I'm hoping its that easy with the Shield without having to jump through hoops.
@@busywl69 I haven't tried it yet but I will and I'll post a video on it. I've been sick so I've not been on any of my devices for days. Just starting to get back online. Not sure what's worse, being sick or having Wi-Fi withdrawals from being sick 🤓🤣