I've been thinking about buying a Shield to replace my LaCie mediaplayer because it can't handle HEVC content and I want a box that also supports HDR and 4K for a future tv purchase.
One thing I always liked is that the whole process was plug and play - put a file on a thumbdrive and it just plays. How easy is this on an Android TV device? Is there an integrated mediaplayer that handle .mkv's and subtitles or would I need to install Kodi for that? Does it also support NTFS thumbdrives?
Stock player, Kodi/spmc, archos, VLC, Plex.
Theyll all do what you need.