huge shout out to synergy synergy is the
software that lets you share one Mouse and one keyboard between multiple
computers we reviewed it in the past and it works like magic check out the link
in the video description the brand spanking new NVIDIA Shield TV is here
and it comes with a lot of changes it's
4K and HDR ready and it comes with support for Netflix 4K HDR and Amazon
video 4K HDR and NVIDIA is directly claiming that their device has more 4K
content in terms of shows than any other Smart TV device on the market which is
pretty wicked if you have a TV that can display that and they even have 360
video support through YouTube if you're into that kind of thing on the gaming
side of things it still has access to NVIDIA game stream so you can use your
desktop PC to do all the leg work of actually running your games and then use
your network to send it to the NVIDIA shield and play it on your TV with like
controller pass through and all that kind of fun stuff but now in 4k and HDR
which is great just like like Netflix and Amazon and now you have access to
GeForce now so you can pay NVIDIA to access Pascal performance through the
cloud just in case you don't have a super nice gaming PC already physically
the 16 GB version has gotten 40% smaller
while the 500 GB version is essentially the same size and it has retained its
old and greatl looking aesthetic but I must add that both of the new shields
have the same Tegra X1 processor that the old Shield had performance-wise it's
not different and that means that if you had the previous Shield like I do so
this is a nice note for me you'll just be able to download software updates and
have all of the software features including ones that I haven't mentioned yet on your older Shield they also now
both have IR receivers so you can control the volume on your TV which is
actually nice as before it was only compatible with certain TVs I think most
of them were Sony but whatever also the controller is getting dual haptic
feedback so you can feel vibrations in your games even with game stream if
you're shooting it over the network it still works the 16 GB version has a
slightly narrowed down I/O feature set than the 500 gig I believe the main
lacking feature is SD cards but I don't
expect a huge amount of people will use those because there's a USB port if you
don't just want to put a big USB drive that probably makes a little bit more sense and both of them have Google
Assistant just like the Google home making this a solid replacement for the
Google home considering the 16 GB version only costs I think about $60 or
$70 more and has a massively increased feature set meaning that if you set it
up you can do something like okay Google start my day and you can have the lights
and the thermostat and the coffee pot all turn on and get ready to go and then
when you're ready to leave you can just say Okay Google I'm leaving and all of
those things can turn off and whatnot to expand the smart home compatibility you
can plug in a smart things extender and get stuff like your coffee pots and all
that whatnot extended I believe that's from Samsung you can pick up one of
those and it's compatible with your NVIDIA Shield then there's the NVIDIA
spot which will act as a mic and a speaker and you can plug them in
anywhere in your home as they're just little adapter things that go into a standard wall plug these will expand
your Google Assistant throughout your house for 50 bucks a pop and if that's
really freaking you out a lot you can put it into privacy mode through the app
on your phone or through the shield software or possibly a couple other ways
the 16 GB version of The Shield will cost $199 just like before and the 500
GB version will cost $299 also just like
before I'll probably have a review coming later on thanks again to Synergy
for allowing us to be here at CES Synergy is a software download that
allows you to share one Mouse and one keyboard between multiple computers
regardless of the OS so you'll no longer
confuse which keyboard is for your Windows workstation which one's for your
Mac 1 and which one's for your Linux one so check it out at the link in the video
description