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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: 2) by stormwyrm on Monday June 01 2015, @04:33AM

    by stormwyrm (717) on Monday June 01 2015, @04:33AM (#190551) Journal
    Maybe you can load a free OS on the thing. Other devices in the Nvidia Shield line, such as the console [xda-developers.com] and tablet [xda-developers.com], can be rooted and custom ROMs exist for them. I see no reason why this new device in the same line will be any different. I was even considering getting the Nvidia Shield tablet but settled on getting another Nexus 7 seeing as the Shield was too big for my purposes.
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