How does image and sound processing work

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My current plan is to build a new plex server and buying Nvidia shields for my TVs in two weeks time.
But i also plan to buy two new TVs in Q4 around Black Friday. For now most likely LG G1 65" and C1 48" since the prices are lower than Sony AJ80 and AJ90.

  1. How does image processing work with Nvidia shields? Does it do all the processing and just hand over the final picture for the TV to show?
    It will probably be great for my current TVs from 2016. But would probably be inferior to what the alpha 9 gen 4 in the new LG TVs?

  2. Would things like motion interpolation work normally when using a Nvidia Shield (Sorry but I do like the much smoother experience).

  3. How about sound. I see most new TVs can’t handle DTS nor passthrough to soundbars. How would this work with Plex on Nvidia Shield → to TV → to Soundbar

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  1. you can either use nVidia’s scaling ( recommended, it’s awesome) or tell it to supply the picture as-is.
  2. Same applies to the refresh rate: If you enable refresh rate switching, the file will be delivered with its original refresh rate to the TV which is free to apply whichever magic it wants to.
  3. the shield can handle DTS. You can either tell it to decode it to 5.1 pcm.
    Or you tell it to forward the DTS stream as-is per HDMI connection, which then requires you to use an AVR or soundbar which has both HDMI input and output, because you need to wire it Shield → AVR → TV
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Thanky so much for the clear answers. You made me sure of the purchase I was considering :+1:

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