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posted by martyb on Sunday May 31 2015, @07:51PM   Printer-friendly
from the when-does-streaming-become-a-river? dept.

At the start of Google I/O on May 28, NVIDIA released the shield console. Available on Amazon.com and Nvidia.com for $199 and reviewed here:

http://anandtech.com/show/9289/the-nvidia-shield-android-tv-review

It supports 4K Netflix streaming out of the box, and is the only device to do so. Now subscribers to Netflix 4K can finally use it. It costs extra, the base Netflix subscription price ($7.99) doesn't include the 4K streaming package.

Is this the start of Google taking over the living room? Games, movies, music, infotainment, all streamed from the cloud.

Fastest Android SoC out there at the moment:

-Quadcore A57
-Maxwell 2 SMM GPU
-3 GB LP4 DRAM
-4K display (OK not included :-P )

It also includes a game controller. The games streaming service might be cheaper than buying a GTX, and could potentially be used as a home server for movie streaming or basic FTP /disk streaming tasks. Should be interesting to see what apps get released for it. It's faster than most embedded systems used such as routers, scanners, and HTPCs. With Kodi + portable HDD, I could keep my desktop PC turned off most of the time now.


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  • (Score: 1) by mattTheOne on Sunday May 31 2015, @08:51PM

    by mattTheOne (1788) on Sunday May 31 2015, @08:51PM (#190490)

    I think NVIDIA must agree, and that's why they're trying to add additional support for the developer with AndroidWorks:
    http://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2015/05/29/androidworks/ [nvidia.com]

    Google has been talking about GoogleTV or Android TV for years but the product is so clunky and badly supported. Even Amazon has put more effort into their apps ecosystem than Google. You have the daily free Amazon app, and Amazon even has exclusive games for their products and will have hugely discounted games in their app store vs. Google's store which never has any Google sponsored sales. Google provides little motivation to cater to their platform, and when you use their OS, they leverage it to spam you with random ads.

    Really hoping this has an open bootloader so folks can use this as an awesome HTPC/dev box for doing all sorts of home automation.

    Considering the size of Google, it doesn't make sense why Android TV isn't more polished. They could easily buy some decent game studios like Sega and port a host of games to ATV.