After 14 years with Plex, I finally moved my video library to Jellyfin. Why rising costs, feature restrictions and digital ownership pushed me towards FOSS.
I had an Nvidia shield, but I couldn’t stand the newer Home Screen filled with ads. I like the peaceful quiet of the Apple TV Home Screen. Also picture quality is pretty great. I don’t need to side load apps cause I was using Plex for a decade for all my media needs, plus my in-laws know how to use it when they watch my kids. Win all around.
I have both, Apple TV 4K and Shield TV Pro, both have strengths and weaknesses. Being able to use my AirPods with one click on the ATV is super nice, I also use it for Apple Music (with Atmos). The Shield is more capable, I am using Projectivy Launcher, autostart Plex on boot and it just works with all the codecs I ever needed. The ads are bad, but Android still allows you to change the Launcher (you only have to uninstall the stock launcher with adb shell pm uninstall -k --user0 <package> ).
I had an Nvidia shield, but I couldn’t stand the newer Home Screen filled with ads. I like the peaceful quiet of the Apple TV Home Screen. Also picture quality is pretty great. I don’t need to side load apps cause I was using Plex for a decade for all my media needs, plus my in-laws know how to use it when they watch my kids. Win all around.
I have both, Apple TV 4K and Shield TV Pro, both have strengths and weaknesses. Being able to use my AirPods with one click on the ATV is super nice, I also use it for Apple Music (with Atmos). The Shield is more capable, I am using Projectivy Launcher, autostart Plex on boot and it just works with all the codecs I ever needed. The ads are bad, but Android still allows you to change the Launcher (you only have to uninstall the stock launcher with
adb shell pm uninstall -k --user 0 <package>).