Hi,

just read the review that best android TV box in the market was Nvidia Shield 2017. Quite hard to buy it at the store, so just check online:

Nvidia Shield TV box 2017 Basic model (only console + remote, without game controller). Purely for streaming video, so choose the one without game controller.

Malaysia seller --> RM1199
https://techbug.my/product/nvidia-shield-tv...id-tv-malaysia/

Singapore Website --> SGD288 (x3 = RM864)
https://www.qoo10.sg/item/NVIDIA-SHIELD-TV-...nner_no=1305330

Look like the price in malaysia quite expensive compare to sg seller after currency exchange. Would like to ask, if bought from Qoo10, when courier to malaysia, will custom charge taxes? if yes, how many % and does the process
to get clearance from custom very complicated and time consuming?

can you provide me the link? check current 11street, a lot of seller but mostly ship from Korea and state no warranty.

ship from south korea and state warranty need to claim from USA manufacture, not from seller...if ship from south korea, still entitle to GST and custom tax rite?

oic, ok thanks bro for your info. as long as everything kaotim at seller side, hassle free on buyer side, then should be ok.

already bought Nvidia Shield 2017 Basic Model (without game controller) on Monday thru Amazon.com. Pricing details:

Items: 179 USD
Shipping and Handling : 20.27 USD (AmazonGlobal Expedited Shipping, 5- 10 working days to arrive)
Imports Fee Deposit: 11.96 USD
TOtal = 211.23 USD (RM844.13 charge by bank, rate at 1USD = RM3.9962)

when you check out, please pay with your malaysia credit card using USD currency instead of RM. coz the exchange rate charge by Amazon.com quite high, 1USD = 4.11 RM (Monday rate). so better pay by USD, then using bank exchange rate plus the administration fees charge by bank, more cheaper, already check by credit card statement, me using Citibank, different bank different admin fees)

for the amazon.com, all the related charge already included in Imports Fee Deposit, no need to pay more, all the custom fees and process will be settle by amazon.com, you just sit at your home waiting for the item to be arrive. if the impors fee deposit insufficient to settle with custom, amazon.com will pay it, if got balance, they will refund the impoirts fee deposit into your amazon account.

will there any problems on the SIRIM application? first time also bought things from Amazon.com, did read on Amazon.com Amazon.com Rules and Regulation before bought it.

thought you bought Nvidia shield before thru AMazon.com. as you are the one that recommended to buy thru amazon.com, anyway now hope my item not stuck in custom

alamak, read at other thread, SIRIM approval need to settle by buyer. need to pay RM106 to get that sticker before release, if know so troublesome, will not buy from amazon.com.

just check the status of my parcel, Initiaze custom clearance on 4 Feb 2018. SO need to wait for few days to know whether got someone call me regarding the sirim, i will update here, don't worry.

3:59 AM
Package has left the carrier facility
Petaling Jaya, SELANGOR MY
3:57 AM
Completed customs clearance process
Petaling Jaya, SELANGOR MY

just check my amazon item tracker, completed customs clearance process, does it mean i no need to pay for SIRIM approval sticker process? finger crossed, hope so...

Tuesday, February 6
12:21 PM
Out for delivery
Petaling Jaya, SELANGOR MY
11:27 AM
Package received by carrier
Petaling Jaya, SELANGOR MY
3:59 AM
Package has left the carrier facility
Petaling Jaya, SELANGOR MY
3:57 AM
Completed customs clearance process
Petaling Jaya, SELANGOR MY
Sunday, February 4
6:54 PM
Initiated customs clearance process
Petaling Jaya, SELANGOR MY
6:46 PM
Package received by carrier
Petaling Jaya, SELANGOR MY
Wednesday, January 31
4:21 PM
Package has left the carrier facility
New York, US
9:29 AM
Package received by carrier
New York, US
4:00 AM
Shipment departed from Amazon facility
Avenel, NJ US
Tuesday, January 30
11:25 PM
Shipment arrived at Amazon facility
Avenel, NJ US
Package has left seller facility and is in transit to carrier

Still waiting for the parcel to arrive, hopefully tomorrow. Actually i just opt for the normal shipping (10 working days), if express one, more faster, but pricey.

This post has been edited by cyberkoh88: Feb 6 2018, 06:02 PM

parcel received today, thanks god, no need to pay sirim approval sticker....so anyone want to order Nvidia Shield TV from amazon.com, can proceed, much cheaper than Qoo10 and Lazada, my experience ordered on 30 Jan, received on 7 Feb (7 working days) using normal shipping

This post has been edited by cyberkoh88: Feb 7 2018, 03:27 PM

yesterday nite try my new received Nvidia Shield 2017 16GB, after setup, only installed Kodi Krypton 17.6 and Quasar add on. Use Seagate External Hard Drive (Portable Backup Plus Slim USB 3.0) 2GB (NTFS format) as External Storage, when i set Quasar download path to any folder, error stating cannot write, after i check the forum, just find out only can be put into the external Hard Drive Android folder in the Data Subfolder for Kodi. i already set that and allow me to save into Quasar setting. But when i want to download the movie into that path using Quasar, initially the download speed higher and after a while, it keep droppimg until less than 10Kbps (sometimes the download will automatically dissapear). try to download less than 5GB movie, more than 5 GB movie and 80-90 GB movie, all the same. NOt the problem of the movie size or seeds/peers. Plug my Seagate external hard drive to my laptop, try to copy bluray movie from my laptop to the drive, can copy, so my drive is OK. fyi, i did not format my Seagate External Hard Drive as internal storage, still maintain it as external storage. try to format the seagate as internal storage, the problem still the same, download speed will keep dropping until less than 10KN (every time, the download % still maintain at 0% only). anyone know what the problems?

my previous Ubox Android 5.0, yes can save to any path or folder i want in my micro SD card. but this Nvidia shield (Android TV NOugat 7.0) quite restricted. maybe still novice, try to find more info in others forum. i already try to restart the shield few times, still the same. i will try to find more info how to set the path to any path in nvidia shield. on the same times, will try tonight to save it to internal storage (remain 11GB from 16GB).try whether
can download small size movie or not. bought this seagate 2TB, want to try at my ubox, just find out my ubox only support up to 1 TB external storage only. sianz......if really also cannot, worst case just download movie from my laptop to seagate external hard drive using uTorrent, and the play it at Nvidia shield...


anyway what you mean by exit kodi in full and go back in? bcoz i already restarted my nvidia shield few times....and also folder named TDDOWNLOAD....never saw this auto created folder, even last time i use my UBox, also never seen this auto created folder...

This post has been edited by cyberkoh88: Feb 8 2018, 11:23 AM

for ubox, it can detected the drive, but when i use quasar to download the movie into that drive, after a while, download speed keep lowering and after that download windows dissapear. then i check the ubox forum external hard drive restriction, it state until 1 TB only. so i also do not understand it, why can detected the drive but cannot write data to that drive.

checking the nvidia shield forum, a lot of ppl complaining of nvidia shield restricted the write access to external hard drive...only on specific folder only...try to find more info whether got workaround on this issue or not...but the problem is, i also try format the my seagate so that it become part of the internal storage in nvidia shield, also quasar cannot download into it...really pening kepala...do not know what format my hard drive was after nvidia shield format, initially NTFS, after nvidia shield format to become internal storage, do not know what format, might be the format not compatible with quasar download...now little bit sianz, if know so many technical issue, might just follow bro AVFan bought Q10 with SATA HD

any reason you want to let it go...also just bought it, facing some tachnical issue, if cannot solve, i also want to sell it...

did you using Kodi with Quasar to download movie to external hard drive? problem cannot download to the external hard drive, after a while download speed become slower and slower....other box i try ok...this nvidia shield give me this problem....and only can set the quasar download path to specific path in the external hard drive....subjfolder in Android/data/org.xbmc.xbmc...other path cannot write...after set to this Android/data/org.xbmc.xbmc, also cannot download...

thanks bro, will move my issue to kodi section to see got any sifu there can help me. anyway thanks a lot bro AVFAN for your reply.

Totally frustrated with nvidia shield that i jist bought,problem with the external storage and quasar. Using quasar to download into internal storage, everythings fine, but when set path to external storage,cannot download with speeing decrease problem until below 10k, path mist set inside kodi subfolder in android folder (android tv restriction,each app must only can write to own app folder in android folder). So last try,format and merge my external storage into internal storage (android 7.0 feature, format external become adoptable storage). Try quasar, first movie download, successfully, download second movie speed reducing problem appear again, try to delete torrent from quasar,cannot and kodi/quasar hang..then shutdown nvidia shield and restart again, damn kodi cannot open, totally hang, not only kodi cannot open, all the external app i install manually from playslore also hang (es file explorer, vlc player, mx player). Try again factory reset and set external storage to become adoptable storage,same sympton, can download first movie,sexond cannot and corrupt other app as well. Tey again with kodi installed after i merge the external storage,also same problem (try both kodi install first then format external storage OR install kodi first into internal storage and then format and merge external storage)...


Really frustrating and wanna give up liao, anyone interested on nvidia shield 2017 basic mode 16gb (without game controller) that i bought from amazon, can pm me. My purpose jist purely for quasar so i cannot resolve it,want to give up and eiher buy himedia q10 pro or nvidia shield pro 500gb

read from forum, all android tv box should facing same problems. any androixtv box owner can verify?