Trying to decide on what to buy for our upstairs bedroom. We have an Nvidia Shield TV downstairs. We have an antenna hooked up to it with w haupauge tv tuner. We dont use the tuner much in our apartment but are looking to buy a house so ota tv could be used in the future. We mostly use the shield for netflix, hulu, sling tv/vue/directvnow(via casting)/youtube tv depending on what we are trying.
I know the nexus player is old($60 at walmart) but everyone still seems to love it. Does it do 4K? Not that it matters a ton we don't have a 4k tv. The Mi Box seems to have things or features or apps broken from time to time and it worries me.
Hows the AirTV? I know its made by sling but its essentially a androidtv right? It has 1GB of ram just like the Nexus player does. Any recommendation or other ideas? Id rather get a box over a stick. No way I'd pay $200 for a shield just for our bedroom so I'm looking at $70 or less. The Airtv van be had from slingtv themselves for $50 with 3 months of slingtv plus you get the airtv tuner adapter for ota. The mi box is $70 at walmart and is supposed to come with a $50 credit from sling but I hear some people say its expired. If it worked that would be a great deal.
Mi box appears software DOA. You may get nougat officially, definitely not Oreo. They seem to be interested in keeping up updated but haven't. The software is buggy compared to Nexus and shield. Example it will disappear when it sleeps so to cast again you need to reboot, CEC is wonky at best, DRM enforcement seems strong so Netflix may require a new TV, those kind of things.
The Nexus player is running Oreo now, always quick software support direct from Google. Its bootloader can be unlocked. That don't mean it isn't limited this day, but if you're streaming from official sources like Netflix and only want 1080p support the Nexus is a cheap and solid device. It isn't doing 4k or x265 but Plex can fix that.
Haven't used the air TV to tell you