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A comment on Nvidia's 10-year effort to make the Shield TV the most updated Android device. Parent comment

Re:Nvidia's 10-year effort to make the Shield TV the most up... by compsciphd on Saturday January 31, 2026 @01:37PM (#46839315)
I have an am6b+ but in reality the shield is a much nicer device to use if one wants to use anything outside of their local media.

I actually wish we could run android in a container on the CoreELEC side and switch back and forth between Kodi and the android UI/apps (without needing a reboot, and having a better managed android environment than the provided one).

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Re:Nvidia's 10-year effort to make the Shield TV the most up... by Rubberducky1324 on Sunday February 01, 2026 @02:02AM (#46844177)
The problem with this setup will sadly be that WideVine / DRM stuff will not like it, so you're locked to low resolution playback from streaming apps.

Each of these Android set top boxes need to be certified to get high quality playback.

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Re:Nvidia's 10-year effort to make the Shield TV the most up... by compsciphd on Monday February 02, 2026 @08:06AM (#46855586)
except, I don't care so much about the high quality widevine playback. Plain youtube, MLB.TV and many others don't need certification. yeah netflix does, but that's less important to me.
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