Home
What's new
Latest activity
Authors
Store
Latest reviews
Search products
Forums
New posts
Search forums
What's new
New posts
New listings
New products
New profile posts
Latest activity
Members
Current visitors
New profile posts
Search profile posts
Log in
Register
Cart
Cart
Loading…
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
New posts
Search forums
Search titles only
By:
Menu
Log in
Register
Navigation
Install the app
Install
More options
Change style
Contact us
Close Menu
Forums
SVTPerformance's Chain of Restaurants
Road Side Pub
Amazon Fire TV question for our video experts.
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="quad" data-source="post: 16755763" data-attributes="member: 17952"><p>Video playback can be blurry because it is throttled down due to bandwidth issues. Perhaps there was a glitch with your ISP modem causing subpar connection to that streaming site when you tried to watch the game? Sometimes I have to reboot our fiber modem if I start getting connection issues to some sites.</p><p></p><p>Maybe there was a new version of the ESPN app out for your old 4K? I would play around with it. It is billed as 4K so there is no reason why it should not at least be able to play 2k/1080P.</p><p></p><p>That said you can't go wrong with the Fire Stick 4K Max for the price. Best bang for the buck out there. I picked one up myself last year and even hooked it up inside my Cobra for a test of the head unit. Not that watching Netflix will be a good idea while driving lol! I just tested it in the garage.</p><p></p><p>I still have a Nvidia Shield that I bought in 2015 that's hooked up to the same TV as the 4K Max. I sometimes flip back and forth between the devices and use Plex, Kodi, HBO Max, Netflix etc. on both devices. The 4K Max is still outmuscled by the Nvidia Shield in my opinion but it is getting pretty close to the Nvidia Shield. I use Apple Airpods sometimes to watch movies and a few nights ago the 4K Max audio would start skipping on the headphones every now and then. So I switched over to the 2015 Nvidia Shield, connected the Airpods and played the very same video on Plex and no audio stuttering at all. Not sure what caused this issue with Bluetooth on the 4K Max since it never did that before. However it is such a compact device - there's gotta be some compromises compared to the Shield which has more room for hardware.</p><p></p><p>It's also not a far comparison because the Shield is using a 1 GB ethernet cable whereas the 4K Max is connected via WIFI - not sure if this was why the Airpods were skipping audio. There is an ethernet adaptor available for the Fire Stick. It becomes a mess of wires though. WIFI is fine for most situations but a hardwire cable is better and faster.</p><p></p><p>The 2015 Nvidia Shield is not without issues. Lately I've seen it freeze up occasionally which never happened in past years. It's a bit dusty even though it is behind glass doors. I should probably wipe down the cabinet and equipment at some point. I just reboot the device or sometimes let it sit and it will unfreeze on it's own eventually lol. Our 2019 Nvidia Shield in the bedroom has no issues at all and seems snappier than the 2015 Shield.</p><p></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]7vwfYJBGpds[/MEDIA]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="quad, post: 16755763, member: 17952"] Video playback can be blurry because it is throttled down due to bandwidth issues. Perhaps there was a glitch with your ISP modem causing subpar connection to that streaming site when you tried to watch the game? Sometimes I have to reboot our fiber modem if I start getting connection issues to some sites. Maybe there was a new version of the ESPN app out for your old 4K? I would play around with it. It is billed as 4K so there is no reason why it should not at least be able to play 2k/1080P. That said you can't go wrong with the Fire Stick 4K Max for the price. Best bang for the buck out there. I picked one up myself last year and even hooked it up inside my Cobra for a test of the head unit. Not that watching Netflix will be a good idea while driving lol! I just tested it in the garage. I still have a Nvidia Shield that I bought in 2015 that's hooked up to the same TV as the 4K Max. I sometimes flip back and forth between the devices and use Plex, Kodi, HBO Max, Netflix etc. on both devices. The 4K Max is still outmuscled by the Nvidia Shield in my opinion but it is getting pretty close to the Nvidia Shield. I use Apple Airpods sometimes to watch movies and a few nights ago the 4K Max audio would start skipping on the headphones every now and then. So I switched over to the 2015 Nvidia Shield, connected the Airpods and played the very same video on Plex and no audio stuttering at all. Not sure what caused this issue with Bluetooth on the 4K Max since it never did that before. However it is such a compact device - there's gotta be some compromises compared to the Shield which has more room for hardware. It's also not a far comparison because the Shield is using a 1 GB ethernet cable whereas the 4K Max is connected via WIFI - not sure if this was why the Airpods were skipping audio. There is an ethernet adaptor available for the Fire Stick. It becomes a mess of wires though. WIFI is fine for most situations but a hardwire cable is better and faster. The 2015 Nvidia Shield is not without issues. Lately I've seen it freeze up occasionally which never happened in past years. It's a bit dusty even though it is behind glass doors. I should probably wipe down the cabinet and equipment at some point. I just reboot the device or sometimes let it sit and it will unfreeze on it's own eventually lol. Our 2019 Nvidia Shield in the bedroom has no issues at all and seems snappier than the 2015 Shield. [MEDIA=youtube]7vwfYJBGpds[/MEDIA] [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Forums
SVTPerformance's Chain of Restaurants
Road Side Pub
Amazon Fire TV question for our video experts.
Top