Selfishly a little bit, we built Shield for ourselves."
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Yeah, you can kind of tell, I think Chromecast Audios are the same thing.
Either one of the Google founders / board members still use them and love them and won’t let the company discontinue them, or one of the original engineers / PMs has risen up to the point where they can keep allocating support budget to it.
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Yup, and they’re still hard to find a reasonable priced replacement for, so still go for like double their original price on marketplace.
The only downside to them is that they struggle a little bit to playback lossless audio. So you can’t play Spotify lossless off them and I found that they would occasionally crash when streaming Tidal / Quobuz lossless. I’m pretty sure this is just a thermal constraint though and you can fix it by taking off their case (some people even add heatsinks to them).
And they had CEO buy in. And that’s probably mostly due to the valuation / profit margin going bananas
Now give me a new one with updated standards and specs.
AV1 support would be nice
Article alludes to it. The hope is real
I need to buy another box. Is there even anything better than the shield out at the moment?
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