A more traditional remote like the Nokia Streaming box 8010 is better suited for apps like Tivimate. Emby, Youtube, Tivimate, HBO, Disney, Netflix, etc.

My primary use for an Android box is to consume media.

But the Shield only supports HDR10 and Dolby Vision No HDR10+. It's on the losing side of a format war and it sucks.

Samsung supports HDR10 and HDR10+ but not Dolby Vision.

Meanwhile the price for the shield has not gone down. The X1 is an old platform and the X1+ is a small incremental update.I'm having second thoughts about buying another Shield for the following reasons:

It's a capable Samsung TV with a fast CPU but it runs Tizen and that limits the amount of apps that I can run. I have an NVIDIA Shield TV Pro on my primary TV and I'm looking to get a second android box for the TV upstairs.

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(You can also email with a follow up or more detail) Samsung SmartThings hub support (using a dongle) is coming. It's also compatible with the GeForce Now game streaming, a service from NVIDIA costing $7.99 per month. Many android apps can be successfully sideloaded if not available on the store. The Shield Android TV supports Youtube, Netflix, Google Assistant, Plex, Kodi (or the optimized SPMC) and many other Android video-streaming apps and games. The 2017 editions come with an always listening games controller that offers Google Assistant support. It comes in two versions - a 16 GB version for $199/£199 and a 500GB version for $299/£299. The NVIDIA Shield Android TV is a high-powered Android TV device, featuring a Tegra X1 and 3GB of RAM (source).

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