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zdw
Also used in the nVidia Shield, which was a better device until the Android TV got forcefed a bunch of ads everywhere by Google.
zeagle
Hopefully we get a successor one day, maybe with the next switch iteration. I use my tube shield 2019 with jellyfin/prime/Disney with 4k Atmos HDR10/DV but man it is showing it's age.
jsiepkes
Does the shield still get security updates? The last update from NVidia seems to be older than a year of I'm not mistaken?
zeagle
I don't believe I've seen anything since then. Although for my purpose I'm not sure it matters: I use a small set of fixed apps from the play store, no browser, and isolated on a lan. Silly they still sell them new if end of life tho.
mistyvales
It's running an old version of Android TV which doesn't fully support framerate switching either.
RDaneel0livaw
Man I used to absolutely love that device, until as you said Google killed it to death in terms of usability. Everything google touches these days just turns to garbage.