I currently have an Nvidia shield on my TV iny bedroom but I'm looking to upgrade the TV in the living room. I would like to purchase a TV with android TV as the smart platform.
What TVs have the best performance? I would be using kodi to organize and play my digital media. I know kodi can be terribly slow on lower end hardware. Is there a TV where kodi performs fairly well or would I be better off getting another Nvidia shield?
I have a Sony Bravia 4k with android tv (before the Google tv's came out) and I love it.. I'm using it more than I use my shield and the only reason I still use the shield is for gaming but yea I'd recommend one of the new Sony Bravia's with Google tv
Buy the tv with the image quality you are content with and a shield.
Just came here to say, I love the Kodi app. Works fine on my Google TV (TCL 5 series) . And I have to agree with most of the comments, buy a TV based on display, and then worry about adding chromecast or whatever
I regret my Phillips TV daily.
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As an owner of a Sony Bravia 4K TV I still bought a Shield a few months in because the Android experience was so frustratingly sluggish and slow. Never looked back. I don't know what it is with TV manufacturers but they seem unwilling or unable to deliver decent Android performance. The Shield is how it should be.
Last I checked less than a year ago, after doing exhaustive research, reviewing performance tests, picture quality, colors, brightness, refresh rate, and other TV features like response rate..
Hisense. By far the best bang for your buck for Android TV's. Basically, if you double the cost of the Hisense TV, that is about the cost of the big brand TV's that it completes with. Second to Hisense would be TCL, which comes close in value and performance, but not quite.
I currently have the Sony X90J and I highly recommend it based on it's Android TV performance.
I had a Nexus player, and a shield in the past and this blows them both away. Using the Android functions are incredibly fast.
I would like to know this also.. All of the comments are suggesting adding external device, I know this is 99.9% the way to go. For various reasons I would just like to look at some tvs with andriod built in
It's not like there are a lot of choices. Sony, TCL, Hisense.
Kodi works just fine on my Bravia. But it also works fine on my Chromecast.
I DID specifically go with Sony for Android TV. But not for the reason you'd think. I wanted a dumb TV. Android TV is ironically the best dumb TV because it has an option to reset it and disable all the smart features. Other smart TV OSes don't have that. I'm using Android TV on it for now (and I'm really happy with it), but in a few years when it's garbage I'll disable it and use something external.
Is it really true Kodi is slow on lower hardware? I have an old Philips Android TV which is terribly slow on basically everything, but I think Kodi runs fine.
I would have said Hisense was a really good inexpensive option if my tv hadn't just completely crapped out last week about 2yrs after buying it. I work in a technical field and tried every possible fix and couldn't get it working again. Sony has Android? I know all (or most) OSs are linux based but didn't realize they had Android. Lastly, TCL has Google TVs, the successor to Android TV. Not sure if other manufacturers have Google TV options as well.
I love the Sony Bravia line (either LED or OLED). The only rather important problem I’ve encountered is that Bluetooth audio has issues sometimes. Also, the upscaling of HD content is the best there is out there (compared to Hisense or TCL).
Jvc 58" android 4k tv £299 from a certain computer company that sounds like an Indian dish.
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I currently have 2 android boxes (T95, T95M) which have 4GB RAM and 32/16GB ROM. Both have similar quad-core CPUs and GPUs. I don't see anything like that listed on android smart tvs How do you compare these specs to what is built in to an android TV set?
Get a Shield