As the title suggest, I recently bought a Sony Bravia AndroidTV. It's been 2 days now and I'm very pleased with the AndroidTV experience the Bravia offers. It's smooth and seems to play pretty much any video format natively.
It got me thinking maybe my Shield TV is no longer useful for my intended use. Up until now, I used my Shield TV for all things media on my TV setup; Netflix, Youtube, Plex, Kodi and a bunch other media apps.
Gaming is out of scope here. I never used the Shield TV for gaming purpose.
Long story short, I'll keep the Shield TV on hold for now while I check how the TV itself handles media content consumption.
But I wanted to know if there would be any benefit in keeping the Shield TV in my AV setup. Any known issue with Android TV on Bravia TVs?
Any issue with Bluetooth headphone pairing (late night movie watching)?
Also, is it possible to enable ADB debugging on Bravia's AndroidTV? I need it to integrate with HomeAssistant.
I have the same TV and 2017 Shield. For me, the Shield is my go to device as it handles audio passthrough to my AVR much better than the TV's ARC does (my receiver does not have EARC). So if you care about Atmos/DTS-HD/TrueHD passthrough then the Shield is better.
I also haven't had much luck with playing HDR files on Kodi on the Sony TV, but it works fine on Kodi on the Shield. Plex plays HDR fine on the TV and Shield.
I mostly just use the TV interface for the AppleTV app since it isn't available for the Shield yet.
Finally, considering the 2015 Shield is still getting updates I feel pretty confident the 2017 shield will be supported long after Sony stops updating the x900h.