The tube version of the shield is dire, pointless.. however the pro with a custom launcher such as projectivity launcher combined with tivimate premium, stremio, Plex and hyperspin makes it unbeatable even after 5 years.Yes it was, I gave it to my son and he seems to be having no issues with it but he uses wifi, I had mine hardwired and kept getting the time/date issue, got fed up having to keep manually resetting it