The Nvidia Shield Pro is getting a 50% price hike due to the AI component crisis — I sure hope Nvidia can work out who's responsible for this
The Nvidia Shield Pro is getting a 50% price hike due to the AI component crisis — I sure hope Nvidia can work out who's responsible for this
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What the hell lol, 3GB of RAM and 16GB of storage has not increased in price by $100
This is Nvidia we're talking about. That doesn't matter. All that matters is number go up. And I hate to see it. I've got two Nvidia Shields. One of them has been running daily since 2015. And I still have no need to replace it at this point. But I really can't recommend it to anyone else pick one up. In fact, right now I'm looking at setting up a Linux TV PC do many of the same things. Since I can literally pick up $100 E-Waste business PC that would be more capable. The only issue would be a few specific apps. Which with the right bits and pieces may be achievable through waydroid or similar
Bafflingly (or not because it's a DRM created issue) the Nvidia Shield is still the most "open" way to watch 4k netflix for anyone that cares about that. I think the highest resolution you can get on Linux or uncertified android devices is 1080p and even that requires jumping through some hoops unless something has changed recently.
Of course for those inclined, it's easily solved by cancelling netflix, acquiring your own copies of media (legitimately or not) and running a media server
Yarr?
Yarr!
It's not Netflix. It's... analog...
In what sense is it analog? I click on the Stremio app on my TV and choose what to stream. (And as a bonus, I can download it immediately thereafter from my web-cache for storage if I want to)
The only analog part was entering credentials (Real-debrid etc) and one time config. It's barely an hour's work to install everything, set it all up...and have something x10 Netflix.
Wide Vine is a breeze to install on Arch. I haven't tried under fedora. But I know that it's been significantly more difficult under other distributions. But yes 1080p Max I believe. Not that generally any of my subscriptions cover 4K shit I pirate all that.
Sad thing is, streaming services have shit bitrates, so the 4k aint worth it.
When was the last update to the Shield, 2019? Crazy they think it will sell for $100 more 7 years later.
Just had an update a couple months ago actually. Believe it holds all sorts of awards for being to longest running Android product to still receive updates. They usually break shit to fix something else, but what a strange thing to complain about when referring to the shield.
I'm talking about a hardware update not the firmware.
I still use this thing daily. I installed moonlight and play my PC game on it too. It's great.
Hardware doesn’t support av1, shits worthless
Yes but it wasn't with its price nowadays itnis definetly not with 100 dollars more. Vying it now you get less support.
Is it a firewall? What does it shield you from?
Or shields you from buying your physical games and your media and let's you only rent them.
True. Nice little emulation box tho. Kinda wish I'd gotten one when they were cheap.
That would have meant giving your money to evil
It has a nice feature in that it can upscale a low bitrate stream (say, 720p) to much higher quality. In effect, you could store all of your media at 720p and have it shown at 4K... or stream it at 720p and have it upscaled to 4K. Thus, saving storage costs, bandwidth and $$$.
I think it can do 480p --> 1080p too. Which means...you can store files in compressed format and upscale them on the fly. Suddenly, what took say... 5TB to store only takes 1TB, without much visual quality loss*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmqa3c-oiAk
blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2020/02/03/what-is-ai-upscaling
Losing your virginity