Plex on TV app vs Nvidia Shield?

dhokes · 18 Nov 2018 at 09:13

I'm about to purchase a new TV (LG C8 OLED) and being 'new' to Plex, I was wondering whether there would be much difference between running Plex on an app on the TV vs on an Nvidia Shield?

kidloco · 18 Nov 2018 at 09:23

I'm using my shield less and less these days . It use to get used every day. Now the apps on my LG OLED get used more often instead. The only thing I keep the shield for now is Kodi. The Plex app can't do HDR from the files I have tried .

dhokes · 18 Nov 2018 at 09:37

kidloco said:
I'm using my shield less and less these days . It use to get used every day. Now the apps on my LG OLED get used more often instead. The only thing I keep the shield for now is Kodi. The Plex app can't do HDR from the files I have tried .

What apps do you use apart from Plex? I take it the app on the TV can do HDR?

barmyllama · 18 Nov 2018 at 09:46

You can use the DLNA feature of the LG TV to stream HDR content. The only thing it won't do is pass through 7.1 or Atmos audio.

silverblack · 18 Nov 2018 at 09:57

The only apps i'm using on the Shield now are side loaded apks.
I use my LG TV for Plex,Siptv,Spotify,BBC iplayer,Netflix,Youtube.

MarkeR · 18 Nov 2018 at 10:19

dhokes said:
I'm about to purchase a new TV (LG C8 OLED) and being 'new' to Plex, I was wondering whether there would be much difference between running Plex on an app on the TV vs on an Nvidia Shield?

A lot of LG users use Xplay, which is a paid app from the LG store. Saying that, the latest update has screwed things up and the LQ QA team are as slow as a week in the jail to approve the latest update. Have a look on the Plex forum for info about it.

neodude · 6 Dec 2018 at 20:31

The only issue with using the TV APP would be with HD sound formats. If you're sending sound back to a receiver using ARC or Optical the most you'll get is Dolby Digital 5.1 or DTS 5.1. ARC and Optical won't support TrueHD, DTS-HD, ATMOS etc.

DataVampire · 7 Dec 2018 at 14:25

I find myself using x-play more than plex on my tv especially for 4k content

wellibob · 7 Dec 2018 at 17:38

Imo plex on dedicated streamers is better then any plex app built in within the tv. My preference for a plex client is my Roku 4 ultra (similar to the 4k hdr stick but with Ethernet) . It's snappier than any TV plex app I've seen or encountered this year. Heck even Apple tvs plex is better than most in built plex clients

MG42Maniac · 17 Dec 2018 at 11:02

I used to use XPlay for pretty much everything Plex related. But since doing a big sound upgrade I've now got an NVIDIA Shield as ARC will not do the HD codecs and I notice a big difference in the sound quality. XPlay is perfect if you don't have a 5.1 setup. Though, if you have an OLED and are using TV speakers you are doing it wrong. So very wrong.