diff --git a/android/app/src/main/kotlin/com/edde746/plezy/MainActivity.kt b/android/app/src/main/kotlin/com/edde746/plezy/MainActivity.kt
index 3d0142d4..0123153c 100644
--- a/android/app/src/main/kotlin/com/edde746/plezy/MainActivity.kt
+++ b/android/app/src/main/kotlin/com/edde746/plezy/MainActivity.kt
@@ -386,8 +386,6 @@ class MainActivity : FlutterActivity() {
   }
 
   private fun shouldDisableImpeller(): Boolean {
-    // Android TV devices — weaker GPUs, less Impeller testing
-    if (isAndroidTvDevice()) return true
     if (DeviceQuirks.isEWaste) return true
     // NVIDIA Tegra (Shield TV)
     if (Build.MANUFACTURER.equals("NVIDIA", ignoreCase = true)) return true
@@ -397,9 +395,21 @@ class MainActivity : FlutterActivity() {
     ) {
       return true
     }
+    if (isAndroidTvDevice()) return !tvSupportsImpeller()
     return false
   }
 
+  // Impeller froze API 30 Fire TV hardware (#749) and Flutter's Vulkan → GLES
+  // fallback still miscompiles gradients/SVGs, so only TV devices on Android 12+
+  // with a Vulkan 1.1 driver leave the Skia path.
+  private fun tvSupportsImpeller(): Boolean {
+    if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT < Build.VERSION_CODES.S) return false
+    // Fire OS reports modern API levels on GPUs whose drivers can't back it up
+    if (Build.MANUFACTURER.equals("Amazon", ignoreCase = true)) return false
+    val vulkan11 = 0x401000 // FEATURE_VULKAN_HARDWARE_VERSION encodes 1.1.0 as 0x401000
+    return packageManager.hasSystemFeature(PackageManager.FEATURE_VULKAN_HARDWARE_VERSION, vulkan11)
+  }
+
   override fun getRenderMode(): RenderMode {
     // Keep Flutter in the normal View hierarchy so video/subtitle SurfaceViews
     // remain the only native composition layers. This restores the pre-1.35.0
diff --git a/lib/main.dart b/lib/main.dart
index 4f1c8753..2c1347a5 100644
--- a/lib/main.dart
+++ b/lib/main.dart
@@ -213,7 +213,11 @@ Future<void> _bootstrapApp() async {
   final commitSuffix = gitCommit.isNotEmpty ? ' (${gitCommit.substring(0, 7)})' : '';
   String renderer = '';
   if (Platform.isAndroid) {
-    renderer = ' [${await const MethodChannel('com.plezy/theme').invokeMethod<String>('getRenderer')}]';
+    final rendererName = await const MethodChannel('com.plezy/theme').invokeMethod<String>('getRenderer');
+    renderer = ' [$rendererName]';
+    // Tag crash reports with the active renderer while Impeller rolls back
+    // out to Android TV, so device-specific regressions are attributable.
+    unawaited(Sentry.configureScope((scope) => scope.setTag('renderer', rendererName ?? 'unknown')));
   }
   appLogger.i(
     'Plezy v${packageInfo.version}+${packageInfo.buildNumber}$commitSuffix$renderer'