For 1080p, Mi Box will work nice. You want the shield when you get into 4k mode.

Save $80 and buy yourself a nice dinner.

The constant updates for shield makes it worth it to me.

I have both and use them daily i have to say they are both worth the price if your happy with the mibox stay with it

For what you want, it is best to keep the Mi Box and keep the $80+ difference.

The Shield is great but it isn't necessary or useful for every consumer. Mi Box is just a streaming device, so for everything you said and want, the Mi Box works great and to pay double is a waste of money for you, imo.

You have the mi so may as well try it out and see if you like it. From what i read, it's a great box.

I've got the shield and while i love it, it's been abloody bitch at times after updates have broken different things and spending way too much time troubleshooting.

For 1080p and no gaming, get a Mi Box or Nexus Player. Only thing missing (without band aid fixes) on a Mi Box is Amazon.

The mi box will suffice. i currently own both the shield and mi box. for the mi box's price point at $48-55 here in our country its really cheap considering its running official android tv OS compared to other chinese boxes with no DRM and running a modified touch based android OS.

For the Nvidia Shield I just got one last Black Friday sale for $169 dollars with gamepad included. I felt guilty spending to much for an android box but I was wrong. The Nvidia Shield is a pretty polished device with a very nice stable OS with all those feature you wish that mibox have.

so here's my take. if you dont care about gaming, you dont have an nvidia GTX card, and you just plan on watching movies with it and play casual games with it then mi box is still the way to go.

if you own an nvidia GTX card and have a nice collection of games and you also like gaming with android. I stil dont have a 4k tv yet but i'm already enjoying my nvidia shield.

Outside of gaming and 4k hdr advantages...

Do you have any interest in smart home? Shield has integrated Samsung smarthings hub onto shield so has advantages there

If you would use Amazon video which I do, get shield. I like watching prime videos for free...

If you would be interested in using Plex - get shield. It is also a plex server.

If you have interest in Google assistant - get shield. Shield controller supports hands free so you can just talk to your shield.

If you want to have up to date security patches, get shield. Shield gets updates every few months so you ar generally up to date.

If you want android o faster, get shield.

Otherwise, guess you can save your $

Get the Shield. I purchased 3 Mi Boxes on launch day. All 3 glitch often. Netflix constantly needs the box restarted as anytime it goes to sleep, Netflix will constantly give the error message that the title cannot be played right now. It will do this til the box is restarted. The remotes need to be resynced almost weekly. About once a month, all audio will be out of sync on it until it's restarted. I'll have to pull the power on them weekly because they're stuck in sleep.

Just a terrible experience overall. I got a Shield TV to replace one of them about 4 months in because I got a 4K TV with HDR and the Mi Box STILL hasn't received the god damn Nougat build to enable HDR. Haven't had too many issues with the Shield that weren't compatibility problems between it and my TV firmware, which Vizio has since fixed.

If you have an extensive media library, regardless of the resolution, a Shield is worth it just for the built in Plex server.

Do you have a large non-streaming media collection (DVDs/local files/etc.?) If you do, the Shield is probably the closest thing to a turnkey Plex Media Server solution out there, so it will be a big help if you want to digitize your collection and have all the convenience of cloud-based streaming with the media you already own. Otherwise, the MiBox should be just fine for your needs.