Nvidia Shield is hardly the most popular anything. Roku has 43% of the market and Amazon has 35%.

Would be interesting to see if we could segment third-party from TV-embedded (see quote), but the metrics from the article seem to reflect actual consumer usage, as most consumers just use what comes in the TV they buy nowadays.

> This reflects a consolidated approach and eliminates yet another device in the home, and it’s catching on, as just 34% consider streaming media players as their primary viewing device. Meanwhile, 56% said the same for smart TVs.

https://www.cepro.com/news/roku-amazon-lead-streaming-media-...

Nvidia hasn't released a new model of the Shield since 2019. The current Apple TV model, Google TV model, Roku model, Fire TV, and Onn models support AV1.

You can’t be serious, I bet 9 out of 10 owners of streaming devices haven’t even heard of the Nvidia Shield.

I would not consider the ancient Nvidia shield the "most popular" streaming device.

Shield is a 10 year old device at this point. It's essentially the 2017 hw that they've refreshed a couple of times with minor changes. Wait for the actual shield next for proper support.

My $100 NUC has AV1 hardware decoder support.

Maybe a device from 2019 is a bad data point

Niche luxury products aren't exactly mainstream either

av1_nvenc exists therefore it's mainstream :)

Isn't the latest shield hardware 7 year old at this point? Only one year newer than AV1 itself