I have never heard of anyone talk about nvidia shield since 2013 until I joined lemmy. This is the weirdest marketing psyop I have ever seen.
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Psiczar@aussie.zone 4 months agoBeen there done that. I prefer the Nvidia Shield, easier interface to navigate with a remote, I don’t have to login first, it rarely needs an update, no noisy fans, I don’t need to keep a physical keyboard connected to it, it’s way cheaper, I don’t need to mess around with codecs, and there aren’t a lot of unnecessary services and background applications hogging memory and cpu resources.
I get that most of this can be fixed or worked around on a htpc, but that’s effort I don’t have to spend on a Shield.
rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 4 months ago
lambda@programming.dev 4 months ago
Then you weren’t in the r/self-hosting or r/piracy communities. It comes from the fact that it supports most codecs. So when you want to watch almost any movie on Plex, the server won’t have to transcode.
rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 4 months ago
I was and I guess the psyop was dealt with there.
lambda@programming.dev 4 months ago
Idk why you insist on it being a psyop, but you do you. I tried to find an android device that had hardware support for H.264, H.265, and others and it’s not much there. I believe Firetv 4K does but then you are getting a more locked down android with a bunch more ads.
Evotech@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I also use a Nvidia shield, very happy with it… Mostly. Clean, few ads, although they did add some banner ads for major streaming providers. But I don’t mind seeing a banner for a few new shows
Not psyops
rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 4 months ago
This is a psyop because it makes my brain tingle.
Squizzy@lemmy.world 4 months ago
This about avoiding android tv and ads though
Psiczar@aussie.zone 4 months ago
I run a Pihole, no ads.
smooth_tea@lemmy.world 4 months ago
That’s BS. It’s impossible for something like pihole to block ads like the ones we get on YouTube/Android tv because they are served from the same domain as the regular content and a pihole doesn’t know the difference.
The only way to block them is to run unofficial apps that replace YouTube and the likes.
Psiczar@aussie.zone 4 months ago
I am using the default launcher and while I get ads for TV shows in the home screen, I do not get ads for third-party products like chicken wraps. I can also watch Youtube without getting third-party ads during or in-between videos. I assume given this is not BS, the ads are not being served from the same domain as the video.
GeekySalsa@lemmy.world 4 months ago
It also smoothly supports all dolby/dts stuff with no fuss. To my knowledge, there’s no way to get dolby vision working on an HTPC.