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Re:Nvidia Shield TV Owners Are Pissed About the Banner Ads i... by raxxorrax on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @03:04AM (#27890824)
Use a Intel NUC or similar device instead of a Nvidia Shield and it will offer more functionality without ads.

TV streaming, Games streaming from local network at least, music...

A closed environment doesn't allow for competition, so they will monetize it to the greatest degree. That would include ads.

Android TV is really bad spyware for that matter... surprised it can even exist with Google TV having flopped that hard.

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Re:Nvidia Shield TV Owners Are Pissed About the Banner Ads i... by Mindwipe on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @08:52AM (#27893113)
It will offer much poorer compatibility with streaming services, because most streaming services do not trust the DRM on a NUC for high quality content.

(Correctly, tbh).

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Re:Nvidia Shield TV Owners Are Pissed About the Banner Ads i... by raxxorrax on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @09:46AM (#27893628)
It works with Edge mostly, but that speaks only against Netflix and Amazon DRM. I don't want to get compatible to that. Subjective, but the content isn't worth it in the first place.

(Correctly, tbh) - It is still a service problem.

I think at least Amazon fixed it in the meantime, I can play 4k without problems.

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