kai wrote:

What is the best one, apple is a good choice, but shield looks pretty good like the design what is everyone's thoughts

Apple TV had a more refined user experience and higher quality 3rd party apps. Shield if you prefer to game as well since it appears to be a more powerful hardware.

Nvidia Shield TV (switched from Apple TV)

Happy with it, runs everything incl. KODI etc.; customizable and flexible.

Never tried an Nvidia Shield, but have been very satisfied with my Apple TV 4. Smooth operation, lots of entertainment apps (Pluto TV, Comet TV, Netflix, Amazon, Apple TV, etc.). I've used the mirroring function from my iPad often with success.

Swiched almost 2 years ago from Shield to ATV4 and later ATV4K.

ATV looks and  runs much smoother, no audio problems (does recoding audio where needed) with my BS3mk3 (2x hdmi).
Use the Infuse app for streaming content. Same smooth looks instead of the primitive Kodi (which I also have on the ATV4K but never use).

ATV4K can handle more videoformats then the ATV4.

Shield is based on Android and Open Source, so no decoding from e.g. DTS HD to DTS or other formats, probably due to license fees. ATV4K sends out in PCM 7.1 which my BS3 understands.

For  some months ago, ATV4K was among the few that sends out Dolby Atmos.

I have both ATV and Nvidia Sheild Pro.

Agree with everything written about ATV.

Reason for me to use a Sheild:

- It has a Plex server.

- It has better support for the various sound formats using Plex than ATV have when using Plex.

I do not use the gaming part.

I think both have similar picture quality and both provide Atmos support.

I too have both an ATV4k and a Nvidia Shield Pro (2019)

ATV4k pros:

• More polished and consistent user interface and app experience.
• Better automatic control of refresh rate and to a lesser extent SDR/HDR switching
• Better integration with Apple phone products if thats relevant to your household

NVidia Shield pros:

• Current remote version is easily superior to the apple remote
• Has support for lossless surround audio codecs like Dolby TrueHD and DTS Master unlike ATV(lossy only). Only relevant if you have your own local media as no streaming services to my knowledge stream lossless surround atleast right now.
• Very good upscaling of lower res content to 4K (check out Youtube for details)
• Has pretty advanced gaming capabilities (cloud services or playing remotely from your Nvidia GPU computer which I do on occasion)
• Has USB ports for additional connectivity (USB storage etc)
• Can be used as a Plex server (no experience with this I use it as a client device only)
• Better integration with Android phone products if thats relevant to your household

Wrapup:

Go with ATV4K if you are an apple product user and if you value user friendliness and polish over absolute technical capabilities.

Go with Nvidia Shield if you value lossless surround audio capability for local media, a better remote and superior technical performance capabilities.