I need to buy one for an old TV i have. I have plex at home and i use also Stremio + real Debrid. If the device offers a controller it would be nice. Thanks!

  • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I saw that some people put emulators on them and thought it might be cool to have.

    I’ll be honest, I don’t quite understand the hardware side of it and where the bottleneck will be

    • tankplanker@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      For music there is no bottleneck, it even properly supports external DACs via USB that almost everything else struggles with.

      For video it’s only really missing AV1, which is only a pain for YouTube but not to the point it’s a real problem as I can still watch 4k on YouTube. It does support things like Dolby Vision, HDR10, TrueHD, etc.

      For emulation it’s only going to struggle when you get to as recent consoles as the PS2, if modern emulation is what you are after you want a dedicated, powerful, and recent handheld emulator.

    • spaceaape@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      The only big thing it cant do is Av1 streaming, and its not really mainstream yet. The only possible upgrade would be a mini pc setup as an htpc, but then you’re giving up android tv. And I don’t think they can stream av1 yet. Afaik there arent any better arm based android tv units on the market than the shield tv. Im planning on changing out my shield tv for an htpc someday, especially now Nvidia has dropped gamestream. Android tv is a headache, and id rather deal with just linux/kodi at this point.