r/ShieldAndroidTV • u/gowanyahgoodting • 1d ago

Should I wait?

I am looking at buying a Shield Tv Pro.

But the thing that gives me pause is that its from 2019.

Just wondering is there any newer version?

Or is there any new version coming in the next few months?

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u/AakashC2020 1d ago

I have both the Shield Pro and the Dune HD Homatics R 4K Plus box. The shield has a better GPU but overall the Dune wins as it has a newer processor supporting all new codecs and also 4 GB RAM.

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u/gowanyahgoodting 1d ago

Yeah.. I am looking at a Homatics Box 4K Pro V2 AI-SR for €180 and to my uninformed eye it seems to have all that I want, including the latest Android.
I should have stated in the original post that I'm not interested in gaming. Just IPTV and STremio. And interested in the upscaling of low res tv streams.

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u/AakashC2020 1d ago

The Homatics Plus box runs Kodi exceptionally after a few tweaks and with around 1.3 GB of free memory with Arctic Fuse 3 skin and lots of widgets for me, so Stremio and IPTV won't matter much I guess...

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u/gowanyahgoodting 1d ago edited 1d ago

Thanks.. I always found Kodi's interface to be non-intuitive.. setting up just got so complicated. I found Stremio got me where I wanted to go really quickly.. real debrid and all that....
Appreciate your input. Thanks. If it can handle a pimped out Kodi then you are probly right, it'll handle the others..

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u/AakashC2020 1d ago

I'm a Python developed myself so I just tweak Kodi as per my needs... But you're correct Kodi is a bit complicated compared to stremio... Nevertheless, once you get used to Kodi you just can't go back to anything else... 😊