This is one of Valve's worst decisions. This device is a gem. I use it in uncapped bandwidth mode (lowest latency) with 8 thread CPU encoding (for the crispest

This is one of Valve's worst decisions. This device is a gem. I use it in uncapped bandwidth mode (lowest latency) with 8 thread CPU encoding (for the crispest image with fast motion) from my desktop and it's perfect. I've been having exceptional results with it ever since it launched. I never used wifi with it, as I'm old enough that I'm from the era where I don't believe that civilized people should use wifi with anything except laptops and phones. People keep saying it can't do 4K and that's what the specs say, but it can indeed do 4K. Valve has done a lot of great updates to it over the years to enable features like that. There is no good replacement for these, a FireTV can sideload the app but you'll be doing every update manually. Nvidia has ShieldTV, but you have to use their GPUs to stream to it, so no using your random Intel powered laptop for lightweight and fun co-op games. Or AMD powered Macbook if you wanted to. Those also don't have the option for CPU encoding on the host, you have to use NVENC which is inferior. I would only use hardware encoding if I only had more of an old timey 4-core, 8-thread CPU. I bought another one with this sale, but will be keeping an eye out for a true replacement. My hope is that Amazon gets the SteamLink App in their Appstore so we can get auto updates on their platform. ShieldTV is the only real alternative today, but with the limitations noted above. If you've been more of a SteamLink power user like me who really likes to tweak the experience and get the most out of it, there's no clear successor yet other than a HTPC as the decoder or rummaging the market for some random Android media device. I'm holding on to my SteamLink until Amazon gets the SteamLink App in their store. Then I'll continue to hold onto it until it dies. Terrible move by Valve. They had this one model, one little device that I could flatly recommend to everyone, and it wasn't hurting their megacorp. This is one of those things that doesn't make you rich, but it's an essential product offering. It's value to what Steam is can't be favorably calculated by bean counters. They're already booted out of the iOS Appstore, and they're not in Amazon's yet, and they would need to ensure the SteamLink App works perfect on both ecosystems to discontinue this. Unless you are really slopping things together, using wifi or have a failing router/switch, the SteamLink just worked.