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Pros

The remote is the most comfortable and intuitive to use of all of them as well. Amazon has some great silicon covers. The box is otherwise near flawless. Amazon.

The shield is a far superior android experience than that which comes with the sony - it's more responsive and streams hd content much more reliably from all apps, not just those sony has whitelisted. The ethernet port is quite handy if require a stea...  Read More

Bt mouse works fine if you need to use trad android apps. Use sideload launcher to show any apps that don't show up in your app list. App is the find the remote voice or phone app command.



Cons

What was supposed to be 4 player, 4k, family lounge room fun is an exercise in disappointment. Great for streaming, useless as a usb media player. The reome control is almost unusable. It is so annoying as it easily make your tv goes to netflix.

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Quality


Awesome features, fantastic quality, user interface is great.


Love the sheild , i bought one back in 2017 and it's still going strong , i have now upgraded to the 2021 pro for the dolby atm...  Read More


The addition of dolby vision has increased movie quality and i still cannot recommend this product line enough!


The ai upscaling and transcoding capability is also unmatched.

Price


10/10 would recommend even with the price premium.


Good small affordable plex server and i love it (p.


Very pricey but you get what you pay for.


Would be nice if it included an hdmi cable but oh well, got it for a decent price and am happy with it.

Shipping


Solved my problems in very quick time.


Excellent service, received replacement within 24 hours.


Arrived very quickly but doesn't seem to acknowledge freeview as this stage.


2 day delivery from order to door.

Competitiveness


Believe the hype, this is better than any other streaming box you have ever used or looked at.


Its clearly the winner when compared with apple tv 4k.


I've recently tried a firestick and chromecast w/google tv and i hate them both in comparison.


This cannot be overstated compared to fs (yes, just using one again setting up for friend, ugh).

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  • This product had a total of 470 reviews as of our last analysis date on Jun 18 2024.

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    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Seems a 20c piece of plastic costs 20 or something for no reason


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Print your own or stand it up with bluetack etc


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Shame really or itd be a 55


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Only on buggy thing has happened where the remote stopped working and i had to power off the shield box unpluggedreplugged cable to get it working again


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Netflix button on the remote also very sensitive to turning on


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Works well the netflix button is way too sensitive


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    All applications supported with no silly licencing restrictions


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Driven by the same chip that youll find in the nintendo switch

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