Comment by chrisfosterelli

25 days ago

HDR support on Apple TV is fairly hit or miss depending on the player you are using.

HDR10+ is supported in some players (infuse) but not others (plex) and will fallback to HDR10. Profile 7 DV files do not play properly on Apple TV period even though it will display the DV logo (though frankly very few devices can do this). Profile 5 and 8 DV files will play properly depending on the player and the content mapping level in the content (2.9 is well supported but 4.0 causes HDR10 fallback or black screens in some cases). Apple TV also doesn't support HD audio passthrough great.

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SamuelAdams  25 days ago

And now that the Nvidia Shield Pro is the same price, it makes the Apple TV an even tougher sell.

  • AshamedBadger56  25 days ago

    Does it? The Nvidia Shield Pro is 7+ years old at this point. I'd maybe agree if they released a new one, but that seems unlikely.

    • cbozeman  25 days ago

      Yes. It does.

      The Shield Pro is still the best all-around set-top box streaming device. It was always a bargain at $199 for the overpowered hardware it had under the hood, but after the hardware refresh and size reduction, it was a no-brainer. It was the only box that had a gigabit Ethernet port, which Apple finally put in their new device.

      Nvidia will never release another device like it again, because the Shield and Shield Pro were meant as a foothold against Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft consoles. Now that Nvidia can make bajillions selling GPUs for AI, they won't even bother with a new Shield device, or if they do, it will be only marginally better than the current Shield Pro and will land with a total thud.

      They're completely uninterested in gaming nowadays and that was their bread and butter until 2022/2023 or so when datacenter revenue finally eclipsed gaming. Now that AI revenue dwarfs everything else, there's no chance we'll see a kickass STB that makes others run in fear. Those days are over.

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  • PcChip  25 days ago

    I thought nvidia stopped supporting or producing shields many years ago

    • jordand  25 days ago

      They're still getting the bare minimum of maintenance software updates. It's 2019-era tech that's long overdue a refresh.