LG Makes GeForce NOW Available for 2020 TVs – Picture and Sound – What’s New

Well, I’m not a fan of Smart TV’s OS anyway (slow as shit, since the intro (see also Samsung’s QD OLED review which is labeled Ultimate by Tweakers)), but Android TV like on Shield is really dramatically very bad. I’m one of those people who just want simple things to work all the time and without too many changes, like a media server to watch movies. Someone who has a Windows desktop PC and knows a lot about it and can do everything with it, but has an iPhone and iPad because I don’t have to tweak a few things in life and just want to be able to trust that it always works as intended.

Back to Android on Shield, my god what a drama. I uninstalled everything that came pre-installed and it only runs Plex + Plex Media Server on it, and it’s still unstable as if you ask me. How complex can it be to make something so simple stable, I need nothing but Plex and the PMS. The new Android update (Android 11) messed everything up (Plex stopped working), and then spent an evening rolling back. Even now, if absolutely nothing has changed in the Shield settings/configuration or in Plex, one day it works and the next day there’s suddenly A/V latency and I don’t know what, then suddenly there’s a bandwidth error while the internet speed is tested at 400mbps. I also think it’s just slow running the whole android.

But hey, this is partly influenced by my envy of Android in general, so excuse this very subjective answer. My experience with Android goes from the time when mostly Samsung €500+ smartphones were so slow after a year you had to buy a new one, and when Apple was still vastly superior.
This was before everything went downhill and Apple got just as bad (in terms of software and hardware implementation, as well as having too many different models left unadded) as my experience with many different Samsung models at the time (and Samsung still releases every half an hour a new Galaxy phone million three thousand AS5838zx, so that too will be rubbish on average).
Yes. Comparing Apple to Pears, but it always stuck with me, and Android on the Shield actually confirms what I thought already 10 years ago.

Edit: Android 11 was the update I intended. Ouch.

[Reactie gewijzigd door jevin20 op 6 januari 2023 14:14]