Amazon Video app - is 1080p the max resolution on the Nvidia Shield?

by nooneisreal

I am using the Sony Android TV Amazon Prime Video APK on my NVidia Shield.
It works great, but from a bit of testing, nothing plays beyond 1080p resolution.

My TV is 4K capable, my internet is 250Mbit, and we know the Shield is 4K capable.
I tried testing it with The Grand Tour, but it won't go higher than 1080p.

Is this a limitation of the app?
If so I really hope we see real Amazon Prime Video Android TV support in the future.

sleepyguy007

im a developer, and one of my apps is android TV. a lot of the issues with 4k support have nothing to do with the devices. there is a huge web of studios demands and DRM support of the whole hardware chain, that have to be worked out. android tv definitely supports 4k and HDR etc, but a lot of content owners have much more difficult requirements to allow their content to be shown in 4k/hdr

wyrdough

Which version are you using? Neither 3.11.44 or 4.1.20 will play 4k shows at all for me, not even in 1080p. They both just spin the spinner forever and ever.

...and apparently it doesn't matter any more. Amazon has DMCAd the APKs on apkmirror, so I can't download a different version anyway. What idiots. It's not like having the app somehow allows people to watch without paying. I'd much rather watch TGT directly on Amazon rather than having to deal with the hassle of finding illegitimate copies on the interwebs. But apparently my $99 a year for Prime isn't good enough for them unless I buy one of their underpowered and annoying streaming boxes.

zipdoom3

It's not an official app, so yes.

watchyirc

Limitation. Only Sony tvs get 4K Amazon. Amazon isn't even supported on the shield. We are just lucky it works.

sbarbour55

With the most recent Shield and software update, Amazon Video is now supported, but I'm still unable to stream TGT at 4K. YouTube, on the same device/setup streams at 4K, so I don't believe it's a hardware or bandwidth issue. Perhaps an HDCP 2.2 issue, though both devices support it. Anyone figure this out yet?