The next best is probably an Apple TV 4k, but it can't direct play as many audio and video formats as the Shield.
Apple TV is great except they prevent installing software which is not on their App Store. A big one for me is SmartTubeNext, which removes YouTube ads and sponsored segments. I can't even pay for that if I wanted to.
I use the Infuse app, and I haven't seen it fail with anything yet.
It doesn't support TrueHD Atmos (UHD Blu-ray Atmos in other words). It also doesn't support FEL.
That said, it supports JOC Atmos (the streaming service version) and you can convert all your TrueHD Atmos to JOC Atmos easily.
It also can’t stream games
It is trivially easy to know that this isn’t true.
Moonlight on the Apple TV works great.
Apple TV is great except they prevent installing software which is not on their App Store. A big one for me is SmartTubeNext, which removes YouTube ads and sponsored segments. I can't even pay for that if I wanted to.
I use the Infuse app, and I haven't seen it fail with anything yet.
It doesn't support TrueHD Atmos (UHD Blu-ray Atmos in other words). It also doesn't support FEL.
That said, it supports JOC Atmos (the streaming service version) and you can convert all your TrueHD Atmos to JOC Atmos easily.
It also can’t stream games
It is trivially easy to know that this isn’t true.
Moonlight on the Apple TV works great.