Master at-home entertainment with this NVIDIA Shield Pro media player. It connects to movie and video game services such as Android TV and GeForce NOW and provides 4K resolution for Netflix, YouTube and VUDU. Copy files to this 500GB NVIDIA SHIELD Pro media player for fast access to your library.
Customer Rating
1
Avoid!
on February 7, 2017
Posted by: oldognewtriks
This is the most expensive piece of junk I have ever seen. I bought this device to have the ultimate Kodi streaming device with the bonus of downloading games to play while not watching movies and tv shows but man is this thing sloooow. This thing makes the $40 Amazon Firestick look fast. I have used many Android boxes and Firesticks (gen 1 and 2) and all worked better than this paper weight. Loaded Kodi Krypton 17 and tried several different "builds" but it would just freeze up at times while using it. I spent over 4 hours trying to get things to work right but I finally gave up. This thing looks impressive and I wanted it to work so bad but with all my tech savvy and patience it was not to be. Hooked my $80 Yoka TV KB2 Pro box back up, which has as much RAM and twice the storage, and all is good in the world. Returning this waste of money tomorrow.
Master at-home entertainment with this NVIDIA Shield Pro media player. It connects to movie and video game services such as Android TV and GeForce NOW and provides 4K resolution for Netflix, YouTube and VUDU. Copy files to this 500GB NVIDIA SHIELD Pro media player for fast access to your library.
Overall1 out of 5
Avoid!
Byoldognewtriks
This is the most expensive piece of junk I have ever seen. I bought this device to have the ultimate Kodi streaming device with the bonus of downloading games to play while not watching movies and tv shows but man is this thing sloooow. This thing makes the $40 Amazon Firestick look fast. I have used many Android boxes and Firesticks (gen 1 and 2) and all worked better than this paper weight. Loaded Kodi Krypton 17 and tried several different "builds" but it would just freeze up at times while using it. I spent over 4 hours trying to get things to work right but I finally gave up. This thing looks impressive and I wanted it to work so bad but with all my tech savvy and patience it was not to be. Hooked my $80 Yoka TV KB2 Pro box back up, which has as much RAM and twice the storage, and all is good in the world. Returning this waste of money tomorrow.
oldognewtriks
February 8, 2017
While I certainly appreciate the offer to work with me on this unit I have returned it. to place of purchase. From what information I have gathered from the internet it seems the 16gb model does not suffer from this issue so I may give it a try someday if Best Buy ever has it in stock again. Thank you for the offer though.
Master at-home entertainment with this NVIDIA Shield Pro media player. It connects to movie and video game services such as Android TV and GeForce NOW and provides 4K resolution for Netflix, YouTube and VUDU. Copy files to this 500GB NVIDIA SHIELD Pro media player for fast access to your library.
Overall1 out of 5
Avoid!
Byoldognewtriks
This is the most expensive piece of junk I have ever seen. I bought this device to have the ultimate Kodi streaming device with the bonus of downloading games to play while not watching movies and tv shows but man is this thing sloooow. This thing makes the $40 Amazon Firestick look fast. I have used many Android boxes and Firesticks (gen 1 and 2) and all worked better than this paper weight. Loaded Kodi Krypton 17 and tried several different "builds" but it would just freeze up at times while using it. I spent over 4 hours trying to get things to work right but I finally gave up. This thing looks impressive and I wanted it to work so bad but with all my tech savvy and patience it was not to be. Hooked my $80 Yoka TV KB2 Pro box back up, which has as much RAM and twice the storage, and all is good in the world. Returning this waste of money tomorrow.
oldognewtriks
Update:
February 13, 2017
I picked up a 16gb version (gen1) and it is super fast. I went with the gen 1 as I preferred some of the features over the current gen 2 but I would imagine it to be as fast as the previous model. Night and day difference between the two models. Everything works so much faster and smoother, including Kodi 17 Krypton. Even ran some Antutu benchmark tests and it scored 139000. 139000!!! My other android boxes only score around 40000 to 42000 and that's the newest fastest boxes out right now so this thing destroys them. Even downloaded some games and have been enjoying it as a gaming system as well. I really wish the pro version would have worked better as I sure liked the idea of having 500gb of storage but I couldn't live with the aggravation of how insanely slow it was. Nvidia I don't know if you're following this thread but if you are I want to congratulate you on your 16gb model but you've got some work to do on the more expensive pro model.