Nvidia Shield TV Pro vs. Google TV Streamer | POWER or POISE?

The returning champion comes up against the young upstart...who wins?

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[msquirrel]

HDMI 2.1 port does nothing for a streaming device. The shield can do Dolby Vision at 4k 60 which is more than enough. Only thing I would really want is HDR from Youtube on Shield.

[campitcher]

Sadly, the problem with ALL other media boxes has been audio passthrough support for Plex. The shield is still the only thing that does it. Google could have crushed the market if they had done it.

[Messy_Marv]

Instead of dropping a proper streamer for enthusiasts as well as non techy consumers with a Tensor G2 processor they gave us a nest hub with streaming as an afterthought. I really want to buy a shield pro especially for emulation but I beard its glitchy. I will stay with the Onn 4k Pro for $50. Maybe Walmart will make a Ultimate version. 😊

[Steelman]

The Shield Pro has turned into a rather buggy device for me. The past 4 years have been great with it, but I can recount the last 8 months I keep running into random freezing, apps failing to play videos, youtube having weird display errors, and constant reinstalling of some apps to fix random issues. The Google Tv not having a backlit remote is why I chose the Fire TV cube + Fire Pro Remote that is backlit.

[GutoGerbase]

When will we have an android TV that output 4k 120fps and has AV1 codec support?

[lewisgrey]

The Shield’s longevity is as much to do with no one making a viable mainstream alternative as anything else. All Google or Apple would have to do is enable lossless audio passthrough on their devices and the Shield would basically die overnight.

As it is an Apple TV for general streaming and a Shield for local content is still the way to go as far as mainstream boxes but there’s a healthy appetite among the enthusiast market for a no compromises, do it all in one box and they’d pay good money for it!

[RobWatkins]

I have the Chromecast for Google TV where I live (3 of them) and I would consider upgrading. I agree with your thoughts about the two. For me, the Shield is better in some ways but it cost's $195. The Google Streamer is $99 and has the upgraded interface and an extra gig of RAM. For my casual watching (I don't game) it's more than fine for me. I am also intrigued about Walmart's Onn Google TV 4k box. I'd love to see a comparison between that and these two that you just posted the video about.

[nburaq]

Already switched from Shield Tv to Streamer 4k.I am quite happy with the new device.Plus Shield Remote works with Google Streamer

[Kclerie]

What about all of the audio codecs the Shield supports that Google devices STILL don't. DTS-X being one of them.

[thanhnguyen-xifq]

Nvidia shield pro still the best interm of picture quality (upscale, deep black, high detail, beatiful colour) and sound quality which os the most important thing and the whole review is not talking about.

[elliotmanley]

2024 and google didnt even include wifi 6

[MikeAzul]

Is the shiled tv pro the only streaming box with that 4k upscaling? Considering getting it just for that alone, or the Shield tv tube version. The hardware otherwise is so dated and pricey for the amount of years.

[Adrianogba]

I feel like tvs today already come with capabilities similar to what the Google TV streamer offers.
The Sheild offers a far better performance, gaming, and AI upscaling, but the Google TV streamer brings nothing new comparing to what my LG TV already does natively with WebOS. The chromecast with Google TV seems like a better option than the Google TV streamer in general.

[SparksLegend]

What is the Geforce Now experience like on the Google streamer? Can it do 4k 60 with the ultimate plan

[Khutch]

Great comparison. I was really hoping the new Google TV Streamer would take the crown, commandingly, but with the upscaling alone offered from the Shield TV Pro, it just doesn't do enough to warrant the switch.

[ZeoWorks]

What about cloud gaming on the google tv streamer?

[richardvacanti]

It’s really sad that no manufacture has chosen, and I say has chosen because they could have made a device more powerful than the Nvidia Shield Amazon had a chance to do it when they brought out the new Amazon Fire TV cube three and they didn’t do it. For me the best device and Amazon had got discontinued pretty quick. It was the Amazon Fire TV box. It was a box such as any android box it just said on your table top or whatever at the time it probably was ahead of a lot other devices, but it could only do 4K at 30 frames per second. No HDR or anything, but they could have improved on it. As far as Google they could have and should have made the Google TV streamer as powerful or more powerful than the Nvidia Shield but once again they took the shortcut and did not. It’s not that nobody can make a more powerful device. Nobody chooses to make a more powerful device to date as far as devices that are licensed I would say the Amazon fire TV cube third generation is the closest in power to the Nvidia Shield .

[MPsNewswatch]

I had the Shield Pro 2017 which I used until Jan 2024 which became very laggy along with the lack of updates turned it into a brick. I then used a Fire TV Cube 2nd generation until yesterday when I bought the Google TV Streamer. Obviously not as good as a Shield, but miles better than the Fire TV Cube. I use it for sideloading apps from abroad rather than use it as my main streaming device as I have Sky Stream for the UK apps.

[cutsdbz]

I have 3 NVIDA Shield Tv 2015, all with built-in HDD that i upgrade to 1TB SSD. Use it for retro gaming, Plex streaming and more around the home.

[Lanka_]

Should I use netflix, youtube and iplayer on my Samsung app or through shield? Watching on a samsung oled s90d