I have a GeForce 1080 PC with h.265 10bit support but since my CPU is skylake I'm still waiting on Netflix/Microsoft/Nvidia to figure out the software to get it working. H.265 licensing is still (unbelievably) up in the air.įor what it's worth Netflix has made h.265 10bit (hdr) finally available on Windows PCs with kaby lake, skylake supports h.265 but 8bit only. Not only does Apple get to avoid writing the code, but more importantly, they don't have to pay a licence. Pretty sure this is the case for the ATV4: "Note that some devices have HEVC decoding blocks in their SoCs but don’t support native playback at this time."
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Higher bitrate stuff will skip of course so not a great idea for high bitrate movie rips but if you just want to watch an episode of a show and d/l it as quick as possible then h.265 beats h.264 hands down. It's great to be able to download an h.265 TV rip and just play an MKV file without transcoding/remuxing. I have a stereo setup so I can't comment on audio. I had a 900mb 68 min TV rip that played perfect except for some artefacts after seeking in VLC. I would be shocked if you did return it though.I would agree with the aTV4 playing h.265 very well. Tech Tips: Turn the room's Display On/ Off when using a Crestron Connected Display. Future development to allow connecting to mulitple units is in process. A small control app is download from the unit to provide control of it. I am more of a purist and would rather play a Blu Ray in its native un-adulterated format on my 4K player than waste chunks of my life ripping movies and sticking them on a NAS never to be watched again (but if I did want to I still can).īuy a Shield Pro on amazon and if you don't like it, send it back within the return period, nothing lost. Currently a device can only connect to 1 Air Media unit at a time. I also gave up a long time ago on ripping movies and sticking them on my NAS. Yes there are always niggles but there is no, one, perfect media box out there.
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NVidia update regularly and the hardware is pretty much bomb proof. You can Run Kodi, Plex or similar, you choose and you get easy access to all of the streaming services in a nice GUI.
NAS and shield combo will just about trump anything that you can build, for speed and reliability and will cost you less. Crappy tuners, updates breaking software, gpx cards not really designed to output to AVRs or TVs properly, underscan, overscan, codec licenses, trying to get a reliable remote to work, failure to wake from hibernate, anti-virus scans, permissions, log-ons, firewalls the list goes on and on.įace it, the HTPC is now dead in the water. When Windows Media Centre died as an OS, so did any real concept of running a windows based media PC as a reliable source of media playback. I have run HTPCs for years and finally gave up when I moved to my Shield - I have never looked back. If you think that the Shield has bugs, then an HTPC on Win 10 is going to slay you.
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