I’m looking for a device that can do the following without color space or banding issues:
Local content would be played with Kodi, so refresh rate switching isn’t an issue
- Play 1080p local content at 1080p, so that the TV does the upscaling
- Play 1080p streaming content at 1080p at the proper refresh rate
- Play 4K SDR local content at 4K with no SDR to HDR conversion
- Play 4K SDR streaming content at 4K with no SDR to HDR conversion at the proper refresh rate
- Play 4K HDR local content with no banding issues
- Play 4K HDR streaming content with no banding issues at the proper refresh rate
- Play 4K Dolby Vision content
If one box can’t do all that, what is the minimum amount of boxes that I’d need to support all this? I’m not against having multiple boxes.
You will Not find an unbiased post in this thread because Shield owners usually have no other hardware to compare it to.
The only media players that can stream very specific profile DolbyVision content using Apps like Netflix, VUDU and iTunes are the XBOX and the Apple TV 4K.
No media player can playback dual layer 4K DolbyVision Rips because that is a proprietary format and there is no software capable of handling the seperate DV metadata found on Blurays.
The Shield has a number of serious problems for demanding SDR and 4K HDR users, even cheap HDR capable AMLogic devices running OSMC or LibreELEC Kodi do a better job, there is a lot of detail found in the following thread:
https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=332180
The Apple TV 4K has better picture output quality vs anything Android. It also has great picture upscaling. It's the most powerful media player sold in the market. That is not the answer Android owners want to hear but it's the reality of it.
I come from a developer background and it's well known virtually all NVIDIA hardware has never been known for great picture upscaling.