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[–] x4740N 6 points 10 months ago (22 children)

Just build a htpc powerful enough to display media and play games with good performance

Put a tv tuner card in the htpc

[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago (13 children)

Been there done that. I prefer the Nvidia Shield, easier interface to navigate with a remote, I don’t have to login first, it rarely needs an update, no noisy fans, I don’t need to keep a physical keyboard connected to it, it’s way cheaper, I don’t need to mess around with codecs, and there aren’t a lot of unnecessary services and background applications hogging memory and cpu resources.

I get that most of this can be fixed or worked around on a htpc, but that’s effort I don’t have to spend on a Shield.

[–] GeekySalsa 11 points 10 months ago

It also smoothly supports all dolby/dts stuff with no fuss. To my knowledge, there's no way to get dolby vision working on an HTPC.

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