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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 31 2015, @11:46PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 31 2015, @11:46PM (#190521)

    Only if you like to upgrade your TV every few years. I tend to hold onto my TVs for at least 10 years. I am about 5 into my current TV. It is a 'smart tv'. Yet half the services no longer work and that was after 3 years. I now use a front end computer to do the smart tv heavy lifting.

    Right now 4k is 'not there yet'. It is strictly a bragging point to show off to your friends.

    For a PC the interconnects are not there yet. To get it to work you need a fairly high end pair of video cards. Even then the interconnects are not yet ready for it (most topping out at 60hz). For the home market there is NO media for it.

    This is a 'not ready' tech. It looks promising. But I am going to wait a bit on it.

    Is this the start of Google taking over the living room?
    I wouldnt worry about it. Even Apple, MS, and Tivo could not crack that market. It is too diverse and the manufactures get 'bored' too quickly.