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Note that if anyone wants to commit heresy and use these screensavers on their Android TV (or any other Android) device, they can use Aerial Dream (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.codingbuff...) and set it as default under Settings -> Daydream :)

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I use this on my Shield TV and it's great. I also have an ATV4 as android AirPlay doesn't work nearly as well. Makes it confusing sometimes to tell which input the TV is on haha.

Woah. I totally missed the news about nvidia's android TV device. Is it too locked down or buggy (my main critique of most android TV devices)?

I think it's the best equivalent to an Apple TV in the Android ecosystem. Great performance and 4k, but way less apps (notably no Amazon Prime TV app).

If you're into cord cutting they do have an app for Sling streaming cable service.

Chromecasting to it is straightforward, and on par with Airplay. That was the one thing holding me to iOS for a long time.

> but way less apps (notably no Amazon Prime TV app).

Doesn't it use the Google Play Store?

I agree with the best STB, at least all the ones I've used recently.

There's an unofficall Amazon Video app that I've been using for quite awhile with little problems, the ShieldTV does use the Google Play Store and I've used other stores like Aptoide and AptoideTV.

Depends on what do you mean by that. nVidia ShieldTV is currently probably the best STB on the marked, it can hardware decode anything you throw at it (including VP9 and 10-bit H265), is less buggy than the reference Nexus Player and has access to most big network apps.

Large exception is Amazon's stuff, because Amazon deliberately refuses to support Android TV because they're pushing their own crap.

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