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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.
Original Submission
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 02 2015, @11:45AM
https://developer.nvidia.com/shield-open-source [nvidia.com]
Maxwell has a signed vbios, similiar to Haswell+'s OEM bios images (Nouveau was making a stink about this in regards to supporting Maxwell a few months back.)
Still looks like an awesome compromise between the high end consoles and the low end tv boxes, and unlike any of those, it allows enough customization to full benefit from the hardware available to you. Notably, if you go with the base model: Booting a full linux distro via a USB 3 hard disk, which should be comparable in performance to a SATA drive (barring issues with disk enclosure firmware that might require manual replugging or power cycling.)