$5 me love you long time,
is now $100 for 15 minutes! LOL. 
But without the kids enjoying the cinema experience. Sometimes we have to suck it up and pay some money so our kids can enjoy the theater, i remember my movie theater experiences. Kinda like when you’re on vacation…either you make it a great memory for the family or have your kids think how much of a cheap bastard you are. Like taking kids to Disney but never going into Disney. Sometimes I hear people talking about how they smart they are, how they’re the best, know better, etc, but theyre usually the people who aren’t enjoying life. They’d rather waste their money (if they have any) in a local bar, drinking cheap draft beer, with their cheap cigarettes and cheap ass bar room buddies. I do understand the concept of buying a Nvidia Shield versus taking the fam to the theater, but I’d be damned if i don’t take my kids to the movies occasionally, or go out for dinner, etc and just splurge as a treat. It’s about the experiences and memories. Anyway, thanks for the ramble and you’re welcome for comment i left, have fun tearing it up. 
We still, on occasion, hit the theater with the family. We’ve even done a drive in here and there. Yes, we still have a couple of those. 
The memories are what you can’t place a price tag on, you’re absolutely right.
Birthday dinners out - heck, I could’ve had a drawer of shields. Never remorse there - but the fact of the matter, $200 isn’t cheap to spend on a streaming device - but my shield tends to imprint some really happy memories.
Sometimes viewing a movie with the family at home can become some of those precious memories, too. Kids in their pajamas, bowl of popcorn, the questions and conversations, the closeness, and the carrying of the sleepy child off to bed all become a cherished memory.
I miss those days!
Wow @Powerfader you never cease to amaze me. Yet another depth to you exposed. That was a truly heartwarming sentiment. Particularly as growing up we were so poor we could never afford to go to a show. Some weeks all we had to eat was a burlap sack of potatoes. But we were always happy and family time was full of our own made up fun. Merry Christmas PF and thank you.
I can certainly agree with that angle also - though there are drawbacks also. Lol.
Plus - there’s the occasion, with the right movie, I don’t mind seeing it on a 70ft wide screen, with XD 3D. 
Personally, our family is all about table top gaming every weekend. Pretty cutthroat stuff there.
Lolll, all history those were the good ole days for sure🤮
I have the P2571 Shield, which is the 2017 Pro model. Sometimes you can find them cheap on ebay because people says they’re slow now or the drive goes bad. Nothing a Samsung 970, 980, or 990 pro SSD cant fix in most cases, if you’re willing. Can get the software/firmware right from nvidia site. New high quality thermal paste on the flat chips, and its like a new machine. The new, new ones are stupid to me; slightly better processing chip, and less storage. 
, someone was thinking there. If they had made the new one with the better Tegra chip and upgradeable to 4Tb SSD, would have even been a good low scale Plex server.
mini keyboard is very nice as touchpad mouse and typing,use mine everyday on my shield
I use these for my device’s for years and it does the job
Yes it is. 3rd gen cube and 2nd gen 4k max are pretty good too but not quite Nvidia shield pro yet. And Nvidia shield is fully customizable unlike Amazon devices.
Yes it is
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i have a 2017 shield in the basement, the hard drive failed and i just replaced it with a samsung ssd drive 500GB and dang woke that box up! had been slow for awhile and i hardly go down there since my son moved out…man cave coming soon…lol
i want an 85 inch tv to put down there to watch football,nba and mlb and it looks like wallyworld is gonna give me a nice xmas present…i also took the shield apart and it had a ton of dust in it,blew it out with canned air when i replaced the HD,that old box is fast as hell now…i never knew
External memory? What would you suggest?
I recently received my Shield Pro and in searching for basic set up instructions on YouTube, is was suggested that a Sandisk Ultra Fit USB 3.2, Gen 1 flash drive was the one to get. 128gb and speeds up to 400 mb/second. It was $10 and shipped with the HDMI cable that I needed. I installed the drive before starting up the Shield, formatted it and all seems to be good.
So now my issue/question is I am having issues with Kodi. Doing anything in Kodi is slower than my old Basset Hound. I only have two Addons, Fen and Twilight and both with RD. I pick a movie, like Night of the Living Dead and it takes 30 seconds to load the available streams and the art work still hasn’t loaded yet. I pick a stream (I pick a stream that is not that big, 1080 rather than 4K. And it typically takes over a minute to load and start playing. My VPN speed is 150 down so I can’t blame that.
I still have my 2nd Gen cube and timed the same steps as I did on the Shield and it was load and play in 12 seconds. I’m trying to troubleshoot this so I wanted to run this by the collective here to see if anyone thinks that it might be a flash drive issue.
Well if you pull the flash drive out does it load quicker?
Love my Shield Pro. Use it daily. If not the best, it’s close. The bigger question is can it stay in the best category with Nvidia’s attention on other areas. Technology standing still is losing the race.
If you have Kodi on the usb it will be slow, needs to be on main storage.
That would have been my next step. So I pulled the drive and Kodi was gone. So it must have been loaded on the drive and most likely what was causing the slow operation of Kodi.
I tried to reload Kodi from the Troypoint toolbox but it wouldn’t load. (some issue with the URL). Anyway, at this point I am probably going to nuke the Shield and start over without that flash drive. Could anyone recommend a flash drive that they have had success with on the Shield Pro?
I just found this thread and Mr Powerfader, says he’s had no issues with his version of the SanDisk 256g Ultra Fit 3.1 flash drive.
https://troypointinsider.com/t/best-external-storage-for-nvidia-shield/93737