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My Nvidia Shield TV from 2015 is still doing great
by pier25 6y ago
My Nvidia Shield TV from 2015 is still doing great
- tracker1 6y agolikewise... been exceedingly happy with mine... though I'm on my third remote, went with a non-nvidia one this time.
- benologist 6y agoSame. This recharger + 4 battery set has been invaluable with my remote. https://www.amazon.com/Lithium-Battery-Charger-Rechargeable-Batteries/dp/B0837FX6L5/ https://www.amazon.com/Lithium-Battery-Charger-Rechargeable-...
- comeonseriously 6y agoWHAT!!!!???? I did not know this existed! Thank you.
- thurn 6y agoI prefer the remote control app instead, why find a remote when it can just be on your phone, y'know?
- LeoPanthera 6y agoBecause I can't feel the buttons with my thumb and have to look down, unlock my phone, switch to the right app, and then tap. It's a horrible experience.
- iainmerrick 6y agoYour phone is fine until you want to pause the movie to answer the door, but it takes tens of seconds just to reconnect to the TV dongle.
- Tijdreiziger 6y agoOr when you want to pause said movie because you're getting a call, which prevents you from pausing the movie. Happens to me all the time while Chromecasting.
- iainmerrick 6y agoYet another reason to avoid using phones for phone calls!
- ahelwer 6y agoI use a wireless Xbox One S controller as a shield remote. It works great; I also use it when streaming games from my PC to the TV. I tried the shield controller and was pretty unimpressed.
- tw04 6y agoThe newest nvidia remote is leaps and bounds better than the last.
- untog 6y agoI recently bought one of the new generation remotes. Order of magnitude better and only $30 (has a backlight and mix still!)
- samatman 6y agoThat's the crapshoot, isn't it. Would you have been able to know in 2015 that the Nvidia product was going to be supported, but the Logitech one would be abandoned? Real question actually. I doubt it, but that's a weakly held opinion.
- solarkraft 6y agoYour chances are better when you can control the firmware yourself. But ... DRM.
- ehsankia 6y agoHas logitech ever been been good at updates in general? Why would a peripheral company even be good at home entertainment? I'd agree that Nvidia's connection to home entertainment is just as vague, but they still sound much more reliable to me than Logitech. And as much as people love bringing up Google deprecating stuff, I still trust them far more on updating this than any outside company.
- Tijdreiziger 6y agoLogitech has been in the home entertainment space for a long, long time (with their Harmony remotes, which did need software to make them work). In 2015 I'd certainly have placed more trust in a Logitech device in that space than an Nvidia one.
- DJHenk 6y agoAs a Squeezebox owner, I disagree. Their tech was good, but then the company that made them, Slim Devices, was acquired by Logitech. Everything got rebranded and then... they lost interest. Which is a shame, but the Squeezbox world was perfect in that hardware and software worked perfectly together and it could integrate with services like Spotify, but you could actually also use it with your own music. Try that now, to have a central multi-room system for audio that is not dependent on external services. To answer the original question: I don't trust any tech company that tries to blur the lines between physical products and digital services. That is, I don't trust any of them anymore.
- cobookman 6y agoSounds like this deprecates it though :( https://9to5google.com/2020/09/30/android-tv-replaced-google-tv-update/ https://9to5google.com/2020/09/30/android-tv-replaced-google...
- kochthesecond 6y ago5 years is really not that long..