Hi, I would appreciate anyone's help. I know very little about Android TV but I'm excited to learn about my Nvidia Shield I received yesterday.

Here's my setup: I have a theater room with a projector and 7.1 sound. We use it mainly to watch DVD's on. I have 2 kids who like to watch the same DVD's over and over, so I ripped some of them and placed ISO files on an external hard drive.I had been using a Windows 7 PC connected to the projector to play them, but the computer started flaking out - I think it had a bad power supply, but I'm not sure. I thought it would be easier to get a new Shield and use it to play the movies than spend the time and money trying to troubleshoot my piece of junk computer.

I'm trying to get the best and easiest experience for my family. Right now, I'm just concerned about playing DVD files, we don't do a lot of streaming. I started by installing SPMC. It seems to play the movies well, but I do have a few questions about it

1)It takes a few more clicks than I would like. I would like some way for my shield to just boot up with my list of movies already displayed. I'm trying to make this as easy as possible for my kids. Now, when it boots, I have to select the SPMC program, then go to video, then files, the select my external hard drive, then pick my movies folder. It's no big deal for me to do, but its a little daunting for my 8 year old. Is there some way to boot directly to my list of movies in SPMC. If not, is there some other movie playing program that could do this that would be easier for the kids to maneuver thru? I don't need anything fancy with a lot of options.

2)On my PC, I was using PowerDVD. When I first started it, it automatically downloaded DVD cover art for my movies. It didn't detect them all, but I was manually able to download the art and display it when I pulled up my list of movies. Is there someway to either manually or automatically download cover art for my DVD's and display it when I view my movie list. I've selected thumbnail view, but there's no art associated with any of my movies.

My wife and kids would greatly appreciate any help you could provide on simplifying their movie watching experience. Thanks!

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I'm not fond of the Sony remote that comes with the TV. It's very busy, and I find I only need a few of the buttons. I like the simplicity of the Shield remote. Does anyone know if it will work with a Sony Android TV? I did some Googling, but couldn't find an answer.

So, apparently choosing any refresh rate over 24 causes flickering and "digital garbage" to be displayed randomly every 5 seconds or so when hooking up this Mi Box to my Denon 2200W receiver. I've hooked other 4k devices up, and none of those have this issue, so I think it's the Mi Box. Connecting directly to the Tv works, but then that kinda defeats the purpose of having a CEC receiver. Is there anything else I can try?

(I know less about Android than maybe anyone in this sub so bear with me)

I bought an Nvidia Shield TV not too long ago to replace my aging HTPC. I thought it would be a good, small form unit with remote where I could run Netflix, Kodi, and several popular plugins and whatever else I came across. Maybe it's just my inexperience with Android but I'm super disappointed in this thing.

When I read it had Android I guess I just assumed it would be like what's on Android phones/tablets. But there's no browser. I've watched loads of YouTube vids in an effort to load a browser but nothing has worked. There are also a very limited number of apps in the Play Store. I've been wanting to watch Thursday Night Football but it's streaming on Twitter. There isn't even a twitter app. And since I don't have a browser I can't go there with that method either. And not having a browser means I can't download all the Kodi plugins I typically install as well. Is there a way around all this? Really frustrated... :(

edit: Is asking for help here frowned upon? Why the downvotes?

When I try to use Move Now after setting a thumb drive as internal storage I instantly get a message that settings stopped working. Anyone know how to fix this? I really need more app storage.

I tried uninstalling YouTube App. Clearing Data, Cache, Restarting same thing and only certain YouTube videos are lagging and skipping. Can someone help. Thanks

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I tried using external storage on the mi box and found it to be incredibly slow to load data. Crossy Roads took about 2 or 3X as long to load off external storage.

I was using a 16GB micro sd card in a usb adapter since that was all I had.

I know the mi box supports USB 2.0 and the drives are pretty cheap but before I get one I was wondering if anyone is currently using a USB 2.0 drive on their mi box and if it is annoyingly slow as well or if my experience was just due to my setup.

Edit: bought a 3.0 USB drive and apps stored on it load fast. So the moral of this story is micro SD in a USB adapter is a no-go.

I have a digital antenna and I've never seen them.

So I just bought a Mi-box, but I think I bought the wrong model by accident. Xiaomi Mi Box 3 4K 1GB TV-Console.

I have no idea how to get past this chinese phone number requirement. Is this model even usable in Canada. I can't seem to find a work around.

Anyone working on updating the Flair list to include the Mi Box? I am assuming the cost of this device and the fact its flying off the shelves might bring additional peeps to the subreddit.

I have an Nvidia Shield, pretty much what the title says. I navigate to "Searchable Apps" and toggle "Google Play Music" to on, however whenever I search no results from GPM show up and the toggle flips to off (by itself). No idea why it does that and I'd really like to be able to search normally.

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