Just found this on Web site. Not as inflated as others yet.
Std https://www.harveynorman.com.au/nvidia-shield-tv-4k-hdr-andr…
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https://www.harveynorman.com.au/nvidia-shield-tv-pro-4k-hdr-…
Nvidia Shield TV Pro $349 and Non Pro $249 + Delivery @ Harvey Norman
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Ah just my local then, apologies.
Plex is infinitely better on the Shield than PS4. Most of my local content couldn't play on the PS4 Pro let alone output HDR or Atmos.
Did you set your Plex server to transcode?
Or are you wanting to direct stream?
Direct Stream, my NAS isn't powerful enough to transcode. I have the Shield as Client and Server.
@Kelvin H.: How do you transfer context to it? Or do you need to remove the storage device each time to update?
@PirateCoins: I have my NAS mapped on the Shield so the Shield can access my content on the NAS through my home network.
And to add to Kelvin H.'s points;
- Shield also has a Plex server (not just client)
- Shield can game stream from PC
- Shield can install all kinds of apps, including emulators, unofficial streaming apps etc
Shield serves a different purpose to PS4 and other consoles. You can have both if you want.
Haven't tried the shield yet, but from experience the PS4 is crippled as a media player
Thanks for advising us of the RRP.
pro is $399 everywhere else…kogan, scorptec, mwave
The RRP is still $349. This site isn't for advising of stock.
Expected very low stock numbers are obviously going to cause initial scamming. That won't last long.
They generally all started at rrp.
While I agree with the sentiment, the AU RRP will increase due to the dollar dropping so significantly.
Thanks OP I picked it up given the issues with the last sale. Not a price I would have gone for before the lockdown but there is nothing cheaper ATM and plenty of places have this listed for $450+.
@AEKaBeer: Why will it? The dollar has already tanked, Nvidia already would have adjusted prices, it's only just come out.
There's margins to be had here, I read a Whirlpool user who paid $315 at HN.
The problem is that US$199 translates to AU$325 at the moment. Add the additional cost and GST and you see you will not be able to get for some time below $349.
And quite frankly - every second post I read how RRP is irrelevant. Well, I agree. It is irrelevant here as well. Can you get this anywhere cheaper? No. Is this the best price at the moment? Well, it is by $50 at least.
So forget about the RRP. Tell me where I can get it cheaper and I will be happy and accept your neg. Otherwise this is a great post with a significant discount on this particular product.
Thank you OP!
I was dumb enough to listen to people like that when I could get it for US$199 (back then around AU$320 with postage and GST) in Jan from Amazon US. Waited for launch in AU. Listened that $349 is RRP…. Just to see it sold for $399 at minimum (many places for $450).
Yes, I know it will be cheaper in 6 months time. As any other consumer electronics. Pointless.@tm001: So it's ok to add GST but not factor the Americans paying sales Tax ontop of that RRP too?
This site isn't about announcing products available at RRP. Otherwise we could use 3rd party Amazon sellers and eBay scammers marling up thousands of items as justification for paying RRP at an EB games for instance.
If this post was about a Nintendo Switch which seemingly is having stock issues, and was saying EB has it for the full $470 odd RRP or whatever it is, it'd be copping shit non stop. Heck, let alone Toilet Paper, sanitiser etc etc.
I just prefer consistency across the board.
@scuderiarmani: This site is to report lowest price possible, and this IS the lowest price. As for GST, what's your point? US selling price is without tax, and this price excluding GST is $317.27, about the same as US$199.
For people who has to buy it NOW, like me who's TV box just broke last night, THIS IS WITHOUT A DOUBT a bargain.
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The shield pro launched at 350 and after an hour some retailers started jacking up the price based on what I saw.
They did due to low stock and high desirability.
We don't encourage gouging here. Especially lately.
Has anyone seen the new model remote for sale in Aus yet?
I am wondering this too!
I need one aswell.
This looks like the latest version
He's hoping for the remote separately
Further proof that the world has gone mad: I just voted up this deal and bought one online, and I'm feeling chuffed that I paid the RRP.
For those that are familiar with the shield, I don't play games or have any interest in functions other than media streaming (primarily Plex).
Will the tube/old version work just fine on a purely media streaming sense as I've read it is the best model for processing Dolby Atmos.
What is the big deal with Plex?
I sign up the free membership, nothing that interest me at all.If you don't run (or have access to) a Plex server then you won't see what the big deal is.
I acquire and host all media for my family members around the country to access within a secure environment.
You can also share your content libraries with others and vice versa if you have different collections.
It's got a great interface and you can customise media art etc.
if only subtitles worked properly (seeking)
As an individual user (just my partner and I), I run Kodo off a $50 Android TV box, that uses a SAMBA share connected to a 12GB HDD connected to my router via USB. I have never needed anything else, so I have never bothered looking. I would never host anything to stream online as I only have a 200GB per month limit and I never gone close to exceding that.
My LG TV can act as a Plex Client (browsing through the LG store I see Plex there but not Kodi unfortunatley), so I guess if I had a NAS running a Plex server that might be something but not a huge advantage over what I have now and costs more $ as far as I can tell ?
So as someone who has never used Plex I am curios as to what it would bring to the table for me ? (genuine question, in case there is something I am missing)
I've been using the new tube for the last few weeks as my primary media player / streamer, and it has been working perfectly with Netflix, YouTube, Foxtel, Disney+, Prime etc.
In particular, the Plex experience on the Shield is unrivalled – support for Dolby Vision, Dolby Atmos / audio passthrough, AI upscaling, resolution switching, can run Plex server (Pro only), passthrough of correct HDR metadata, true 24fps, 30fps, and 60fps support etc.
I have a QNAP TS-451+ NAS that's ordinarily been fantastic as a movie streamer to my AppleTV 4K in living room (4K HDR Sony X90E, Atmos speakers) and AppleTV in bedroom (1080p screen).
Increasingly though I like to watch 4K HDR with Atmos and it simply cannot keep up, even with CAT8 cables to a kickass router. I've set options on hardware transcoding but it doesn't seem to help.
What's my best option here for a future-proofed solution, so that I can stream to both rooms? I'd like to be able to still have the NAS to dump, manage content - I would have to think of a workflow solution if I introduced a Shield Pro into the equation. Anyone have any suggestions?
The Shield will direct play virtually everything, so no need to transcode, and as mentioned above, the Plex experience on the Shield is excellent.
I presume though I'd need to have a Shield at each TV, much like the AppleTV units.. is tht correct?
Yeah, and if you wanted you can use the Shield Pro as the Plex Server.
I got Apple TV 4k and love watching Popcorn Time. I paid for Appdb to get sideload popcorn app but sometimes it got deactivated and it's very frustrated every single time I reload app as it's not a straight forward process. Is popcorn app stable on Android? I also have a cheap Android TV box and tbh it's so sh*t that it got frozen almost every single time I watch movie.
very stable and very free
Might be the android tv box specs?
Is there any benefit in upgrading from the previous model?
Yeah, then you'll have 2 shield devices. :)
Noice…
Some upscaling and atmos features are some of the more notable things… could well make zero difference to most out there.
Dolby Vision and Atmos, AI upscaling, faster SoC, and new remote (motion-activated, backlit buttons, user-customisable button, IR control for your TV / receiver, built-in lost remote locator, dedicated volume keys, dedicated Netflix button, uses AAA batteries).
I haven't come across any benchmarks or review suggesting it was actually any noticeable performance improvement despite Nvidias claims.
Would it be worth the $350 outlay, I already got myself an aftermarket remote that kinda does the job. Even if I lose it I can get another one for $7 from eBay. I control the volume through my home theatre directly and my 13-year old Sony Amp only does Dolby 7.1 so no Atmos.
If you don't have Atmos Speakers and a high end DV TV, personally I'd say it's overkill.
Having said that, Nvidia has this market to themselves, not exactly many high quality Android TV boxes out there…. A Vodafone TV for $70 odd for most would be perfectly adequate.
If you're not in a rush Google are developing a 'hero' HDMI 2.1 Android TV device with “next-gen” smart home features and support for Google’s Stadia cloud gaming service that's expected this year.
https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/10/21004376/google-adt-3-an…
This is the only reason I haven't caved and bought a shield. I don't need 4K (yet), so most of the upscaling would be wasted on me with all my 1080p content
Edit: not sure if/when stadia is coming to Australia
Uh I just read the details — it states the Shield Pro 4K only has support for 1080p Plex Media Server transcoding… so for 4K stream, you use NVIDIA native - which is what I've done on AppleTV 4K using VLC already.. I really hoped to use Plex in order to bookmark my view, particularly for episodic content
I really hoped to use Plex in order to bookmark my view, particularly for episodic content
I can bookmark (sort of) where I was up to on Kodi. BY that I mean, if I stop the show, and leave and come back to it the next day/week etc it asks if I want to resume from XX:XX or start again. I am not sure where the meta data for that is stored though ? locally I assume (which would be needed to book mark if more then one device was accessing the shared show via the LAN) as I see not extra file in the folder on HDD to hold the metadata. I run Kodi off a $50 Android TV box connected to the TV. Currently it's on V18.7 and gets regular updates.
RRP isn't a deal.
I missed the Harvey Norman deal, got it at Kogan, signed up for the Kogan First service, also received a $20 credit, so applied that, and added $5 for express, all up $384 delivered, expensive but it looks good, and I got the pro so I could hook up my NAS, plus the extra RAM I wanted as well.
Do you mean DAS?
Non-pro has has an ethernet connection, connects to NAS fine.
Yeah you're right, I meant use the NAS for a Plex Server, the non-Pro is only a Plex client, meaning you'll need a separate server. Only important if you're going to use it for that, ethernet to other content from some other method is of course there. Further, the non-pro has a micro SD card slot, which the Pro is missing unfortunately.
It's saying the Pro is OOS
EDIT : actually both