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Should I putchase a 4-year-old nVidia TV Pro, another technology, or wait for next Gen?
(lemmy.dbzer0.com)
It's my birthday, and I want the upscaling, the single platform, the flexibility (sailing the high seas), but it's soooo old. $200? IDK
Honestly, for running jellyfin/emby/plex, there's nothing better. The only thing an update might get you would be higher refresh rates or maybe 8k support, but for watching video, who cares?
Once I disabled the built-in "leanback" launcher with its fucking toxic ads and replaced it with flauncher, it's been essentially perfect for watching media. flauncher is fugly as hell but it stays out of my face, unlike google's ad-focused launcher.
AV1 is missing from the current shield and would be great to have as part of an updated model.
I honestly haven't found much being encoded with AV1, there being almost no GPUs that can transcode it probably doesn't help.
YouTube's default codec is AV1 and Netflix supports it too
I meant more on the seven seas. I currently don't have a need to be able to transcode AV1 on my mediaserver