AFAIK only Sony, Sharp and TCL? Do they came with Pie or upgradable to Pie?
I need 4K Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+, and HBO Max. I would consider a dumb-4K TV as well, and buy a Shield if I can't get a smart TV.
AFAIK only Sony, Sharp and TCL? Do they came with Pie or upgradable to Pie?
I need 4K Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+, and HBO Max. I would consider a dumb-4K TV as well, and buy a Shield if I can't get a smart TV.
Scroll down to the Get Your Android TV section. If you click on them, it takes you to their ATV offerings. There is also a link below that for Global Partners if you're not in the US.
Philips, Sony, Sharp, TCL, Xiaomi...
Got a philips 55PUS7334 myself and perfectly happy with it... Before that a sony 43W805c, slow but also fine.
Basically the points are valid, overall the cpu's used in the tvs are lacking. THen again, my entire idea is not to need extra boxes so a shield just means extra clutter I don't need. The PUS7334 (and 7304, etc) is powerful enough for me, everything responds fast enough and so far all is stable.
Main reason for me to go for android tv is because I have more android devices and I feel it is less dependent on the brand for app support (heard to many stories of samsung simply removing/not supporting apps anymore and therfor functionality being lost).
I think a lot will depend on the country you live in, too. All TCL's in the US are sold with the Roku OS and not Android TV.
Some Hisense models have Android TV, Philips too.
Unless you get a Mid tier / Premium Sony that includes a new, and much more powerful and capable MediaTek chip set in it for running Android TV Pie 9.0 out of the box, I would be buying an Nvidia Shield For Android TV usage.
In fact if I did not get a powerful Sony TV, then better Apps compatibility is found over at Samsung that also gets Apple TV App and Airplay2 support as well vs cheap, Chipset underpowered TV’s running Android TV’s.
Team a modern 4K HDR Samsung TV up with a Nvidia Shield and you will have all App bases covered.
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Get a shield honestly, most of the tv implementations are pretty lackluster when it comes tp cpu, codec problems on playback (my sony has artifacts on the bottom of screen for interlaced video files for example). I got a shield and on that, everything works flawlessly and so smoothly