1 00:00:05,560 --> 00:00:10,960 buy a qualifying Intel product and get entered in the Intel Dynamic ticket 2 00:00:09,200 --> 00:00:15,679 giveaway for a chance to win great prizes visit Intel gaming promo.com to 3 00:00:13,400 --> 00:00:19,880 learn more to give you guys some idea how excited I am to be having a look at 4 00:00:17,600 --> 00:00:25,400 the NVIDIA Shield number one is I built myself a ghetto Shield which you can 5 00:00:21,480 --> 00:00:28,199 check out and number two is 6 00:00:25,400 --> 00:00:32,599 this that is how excited I am about NVIDIA Shield I know video is getting a 7 00:00:30,640 --> 00:00:36,800 lot of flack about this product from the Enthusiast saying if I wanted to play 8 00:00:34,640 --> 00:00:39,960 those games I'd play them on my PC or saying if I wanted to play those other 9 00:00:38,200 --> 00:00:43,640 games I'd play them on my smartphone or saying it's too expensive or saying 10 00:00:41,559 --> 00:00:48,360 whatever whatever and whatever else personally I am extremely excited about 11 00:00:46,239 --> 00:00:53,160 it for a number of reasons number one is this is the first consumer grade device 12 00:00:50,920 --> 00:00:57,640 that features a Tegra 4 processor so Tegra 4 might not necessarily be all 13 00:00:55,239 --> 00:01:01,680 about the CPU aspect of the performance but it is all about GPU and early 14 00:01:00,199 --> 00:01:05,560 benchmarks of Shield seem to be indicating that compared particularly to 15 00:01:03,879 --> 00:01:11,080 the gpus you can get in most modern smartphones these days even things like 16 00:01:07,439 --> 00:01:13,000 the Samsung Galaxy S4 it is very very 17 00:01:11,080 --> 00:01:19,040 powerful so it's a capable little gaming platform and number two is the fact that 18 00:01:15,960 --> 00:01:21,840 it enables not only the ability to play 19 00:01:19,040 --> 00:01:27,520 Android devices or to Android devices to play Android games on a dedicated device 20 00:01:24,759 --> 00:01:33,399 but also your PC games and last but not least with what I'd consider to be a 21 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:35,920 console grade controller now I've had my 22 00:01:33,399 --> 00:01:39,439 Hands-On Shield before uh back when we did an episode of netlink weekly so I 23 00:01:37,680 --> 00:01:44,479 already know what the fit and finish is like and guys it is absolutely fantastic 24 00:01:42,520 --> 00:01:50,439 so included with the Box you get the shield device itself you get the 25 00:01:46,960 --> 00:01:52,399 wallwart which has uh NVIDIA's well 26 00:01:50,439 --> 00:01:56,520 NVIDIA logo on it so there's not really much to say there and then you also get 27 00:01:54,280 --> 00:02:00,960 a micro USB charging cable I still hate micro USB I understand why they're using 28 00:01:58,520 --> 00:02:04,960 it but that won't make me stop hating it you also get a quick start guide that 29 00:02:02,560 --> 00:02:08,640 acts as a product tour although NVIDIA has some great videos on their YouTube 30 00:02:07,280 --> 00:02:17,280 channel that can walk you through the whole process of setting it up it comes 31 00:02:12,560 --> 00:02:19,400 with on the back here a mini HDMI out so 32 00:02:17,280 --> 00:02:22,920 you can run it directly to your TV if you wanted to do that for whatever 33 00:02:21,239 --> 00:02:26,680 reason although personally i' expect most people to use it handheld it has 34 00:02:24,640 --> 00:02:30,480 micro USB right there for charging a headphone microphone Jack this is the 35 00:02:28,720 --> 00:02:35,000 one ergonomic thing that I think is a little bit strange about Shield I wouldn't have minded seeing this perhaps 36 00:02:33,480 --> 00:02:38,560 on the bottom of the device so it's a little bit closer to you and it's not 37 00:02:36,599 --> 00:02:43,000 coming out the back of it and then finally on the back you have a micro SD 38 00:02:40,680 --> 00:02:49,599 slot so Shield only has 16 gigs of memory but you can add up to 64 gigs 39 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:51,480 with a an s or micro SD XC in fact we 40 00:02:49,599 --> 00:02:55,120 have one that's a very high performance SanDisk one that runs at about 80 41 00:02:52,959 --> 00:02:59,280 megabytes per second so I'm super stoked on using that now the exhaust vent I've 42 00:02:57,200 --> 00:03:03,840 seen it in action like I said before doesn't interfere with where your 43 00:03:01,360 --> 00:03:07,519 fingers sit which is nice because there is a fair bit of power in there so it 44 00:03:05,480 --> 00:03:11,280 does need active cooling so that's the only exhaust vent right there but it 45 00:03:09,440 --> 00:03:15,480 exhausts away from your finger so you've got the two shoulder buttons right here 46 00:03:13,519 --> 00:03:21,239 left and right as well as two trigger buttons so those are nice analog buttons 47 00:03:18,080 --> 00:03:23,640 with varying uh sensitivity levels just 48 00:03:21,239 --> 00:03:26,799 like that also on the back here you've got what they're calling I think they 49 00:03:24,840 --> 00:03:30,400 call them tags or something like that whatever whatever branding they have for 50 00:03:28,360 --> 00:03:33,000 them you can basically swap out these top I think they were calling them 51 00:03:31,640 --> 00:03:37,000 Shields at the beginning and that was part of where the name came from but at 52 00:03:34,920 --> 00:03:40,480 any rate you can get carbon fiber ones or whatever it's not the kind of thing 53 00:03:38,239 --> 00:03:43,959 that I would be likely to replace but if I did want to customize my shield and I 54 00:03:42,080 --> 00:03:47,400 knew someone who happens to be sort of crafty then I would probably just get 55 00:03:45,920 --> 00:03:52,239 them to like paint this or something that would be kind of a neat way to customize your Shield without actually 56 00:03:49,879 --> 00:03:57,120 spending more money on it the bottom of the device has a very nice rubberized 57 00:03:55,040 --> 00:04:01,439 grip hopefully that's not going to come off over time it doesn't really feel 58 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:06,280 like it's uh like it's got any come offness to it so feels very very good 59 00:04:04,319 --> 00:04:10,760 the one thing about the feeling of Shield that um sort of put me off a 60 00:04:09,040 --> 00:04:14,159 little bit at first particularly I'm going to have to let you guys know once 61 00:04:12,519 --> 00:04:17,919 I spend more time with it this is a device that I'll be taking home and I'll 62 00:04:15,879 --> 00:04:21,560 be using and I will be doing a more extensive followup on letting you guys 63 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:25,240 know exactly what I think of NVIDIA Shield but the one thing that puts me 64 00:04:23,240 --> 00:04:28,960 off a little bit about it is the weight it's quite heavy compared to something 65 00:04:27,320 --> 00:04:33,440 like a smartphone or other Android device compared to to what you might be 66 00:04:30,360 --> 00:04:35,479 used to however with that weight comes 67 00:04:33,440 --> 00:04:40,520 solidity so you can see when I shake it around that hinge doesn't move the hinge 68 00:04:38,160 --> 00:04:44,520 is strong a crappy hinge can take what otherwise might be a beautiful ID or a 69 00:04:42,560 --> 00:04:48,560 really nice device and turn it into something that is annoying and then 70 00:04:46,800 --> 00:04:52,560 finally useless when the thing actually breaks so I'm glad to see that they've 71 00:04:50,080 --> 00:04:56,120 invested in making the hinge correct I also know speaking of investing in 72 00:04:54,639 --> 00:05:01,520 making things correctly that they've gone through a ton of revisions on this 73 00:04:59,080 --> 00:05:05,639 game pad since CES which was the first time I was handson with Shield so it's 74 00:05:03,560 --> 00:05:11,360 got an eight-way d-pad up here on the left it's got two analog joysticks right 75 00:05:09,039 --> 00:05:16,120 here that feel very actually that's quite nice they've got a bit quite a 76 00:05:13,880 --> 00:05:20,759 linear feel to them okay yeah excited about that 77 00:05:18,759 --> 00:05:24,840 Android navigation buttons here so home back the custom NVIDIA button which 78 00:05:22,400 --> 00:05:28,759 loads up the uh NVIDIA interface so it takes you to like teger Zone and you can 79 00:05:26,880 --> 00:05:33,880 uh play Android games from there or you can buy Android games or you can uh fire 80 00:05:31,680 --> 00:05:36,800 up the PC streaming so PC streaming requires a few different things number 81 00:05:35,360 --> 00:05:40,199 one is you need a shield number two is you need the latest drivers and GeForce 82 00:05:38,400 --> 00:05:45,759 experience for your desktop number three is you need a Kepler GPU so that's 83 00:05:41,919 --> 00:05:47,120 NVIDIA 600 series 650 TI and up I 84 00:05:45,759 --> 00:05:51,880 believe don't maybe don't quote me on that um but honestly I'd recommend 85 00:05:49,919 --> 00:05:56,759 anything from sort of a 660 and up if you want to have a great experience 86 00:05:54,160 --> 00:06:00,319 whether it's on the desktop or below 650 TI boost actually isn't bad either 87 00:05:58,199 --> 00:06:03,919 though okay anyway you need a game that you need the latest beta version of 88 00:06:02,280 --> 00:06:07,039 steam so you have to enable beta builds of steam and then you should pretty much 89 00:06:05,639 --> 00:06:10,080 be ready to go you just have to make sure you've launch the game at least 90 00:06:08,639 --> 00:06:13,880 once and then you have to have the shield running on the same Wi-Fi network 91 00:06:12,160 --> 00:06:19,680 as the network that your PC is attached to contrary to NVIDIA setup video where 92 00:06:16,639 --> 00:06:22,360 they show both the PC and shield 93 00:06:19,680 --> 00:06:26,759 connected via Wi-Fi you don't have to have them both on Wi-Fi they just have to 94 00:06:24,680 --> 00:06:29,400 be connected through the same router so you press the NVIDIA button in the 95 00:06:28,080 --> 00:06:34,240 middle to fire it up you can see they have a helpful instruction thing here on 96 00:06:31,440 --> 00:06:37,560 the uh cover the one thing that bothers me and other people that I've seen 97 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:41,319 already a little bit about Shield is that the 5in 720p display multi-touch 98 00:06:40,160 --> 00:06:45,840 blah blah blah I'm giving you guys the specs in the unboxing like I usually do 99 00:06:43,400 --> 00:06:49,560 has a very large frame around it I kind of wish that they'd gone with something 100 00:06:47,720 --> 00:06:53,560 more like maybe a 5 and 1/2 in and they'd reduced the uh the bezel space a 101 00:06:51,520 --> 00:06:58,520 little bit because having a big bezel around a monitor really does make it 102 00:06:55,319 --> 00:07:00,360 look smaller than it is 720p and 5 in 103 00:06:58,520 --> 00:07:04,919 isn't that small compared to what we're used to on our phones in fact it's quite 104 00:07:02,319 --> 00:07:08,280 large but I think what happens is you're used to here here here's what happens 105 00:07:06,680 --> 00:07:13,400 here's why it feels small so besides the larger bezel people hold their phones 106 00:07:10,199 --> 00:07:14,599 like this so there's no interface here 107 00:07:13,400 --> 00:07:19,000 so you hold your phone you like this you sit this far away from it with a shield 108 00:07:17,560 --> 00:07:22,840 you're going to hold it in a similar position but look how much farther the 109 00:07:20,720 --> 00:07:26,199 screen is from your face so that's why the 5-in screen ends up feeling a little 110 00:07:24,560 --> 00:07:30,680 bit on the smaller side it's also because of the bulkiness of the device 111 00:07:28,560 --> 00:07:35,599 itself this contrasts sharply with something like the steel Series 3 which 112 00:07:33,039 --> 00:07:38,360 is their little Bluetooth uh controller that you compare to your phone and 113 00:07:36,800 --> 00:07:41,680 didn't end up being a very successful product but with the shield NVIDIA's 114 00:07:40,400 --> 00:07:47,199 gone well no we're not going to make it small we're going to make it ergonomic 115 00:07:43,879 --> 00:07:49,080 and everything else sort of well so much 116 00:07:47,199 --> 00:07:53,199 so much for that there's a couple tuned speakers here actually I never did 117 00:07:50,520 --> 00:07:57,599 finish the uh the the guided tour there's a microphone Port right there 118 00:07:54,960 --> 00:08:01,800 and then abxy buttons so you can actually use not only the touch screen 119 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:04,280 up here for interfacing with the shield but also the button so I'm going to walk 120 00:08:03,080 --> 00:08:08,680 you through that in a moment once I go through the startup process so as you 121 00:08:06,479 --> 00:08:12,560 guys can see the screen is quite glossy so if you prefer mat screens uh this is 122 00:08:10,960 --> 00:08:16,080 not one but we've we've come to expect that from touch screens there's also a 123 00:08:14,400 --> 00:08:19,639 quick get getting started guide so it shows you the NVIDIA Button as well as 124 00:08:18,039 --> 00:08:25,199 walking you through the navigation buttons and well okay so the abxy button 125 00:08:23,680 --> 00:08:31,199 showing you the functionality that they mostly have so a is usually confirmed B 126 00:08:27,479 --> 00:08:33,279 is usually back and then finally aha yes 127 00:08:31,199 --> 00:08:37,479 you can actually use the right joystick check that out as a virtual Mouse 128 00:08:35,360 --> 00:08:41,000 pointer for precision movements and this is the kind of thing I may end up 129 00:08:39,039 --> 00:08:44,039 actually using a fair bit so that's uh that's that's actually pretty cool and 130 00:08:42,479 --> 00:08:47,640 then you can actually click just by pressing that down I don't know if it's 131 00:08:45,920 --> 00:08:52,360 going to allow me to click on continue here whoop whoop it's kind of awkward to 132 00:08:50,800 --> 00:08:56,800 yeah there we go that that worked not bad or press y to agree there we go so 133 00:08:54,279 --> 00:08:59,920 I'm just going to set up my Android here so if you've ever set up an Android 134 00:08:58,240 --> 00:09:04,839 device before you'll have probably seen all the stuff that I just did because 135 00:09:01,920 --> 00:09:08,079 this is a completely stock Android device in fact one of the things that 136 00:09:06,120 --> 00:09:12,959 NVIDIA is committed to on their web page for shield is timely upgrades to the 137 00:09:10,920 --> 00:09:16,760 latest Android operating systems so they've only really made a couple small 138 00:09:14,440 --> 00:09:20,600 changes to it and that is well pretty much this so pressing the NVIDIA button 139 00:09:18,959 --> 00:09:24,959 gives you Shield games that you have installed the shield store PC games so 140 00:09:23,519 --> 00:09:30,200 you can navigate in all the ways that you're used to so you can go touchcreen 141 00:09:26,920 --> 00:09:33,360 okay you can use the d-pad just like 142 00:09:30,200 --> 00:09:34,720 that you can use the left analog stick 143 00:09:33,360 --> 00:09:38,160 okay especially if you're not clumsy about it and finally you can use the 144 00:09:36,560 --> 00:09:41,959 shoulder buttons to navigate through the different menus so you have almost so 145 00:09:40,279 --> 00:09:46,240 many options that my mother would find it confusing but it's okay I'm not my 146 00:09:43,640 --> 00:09:49,480 mother so I think I can handle that it comes pre-loaded with a couple of Shield 147 00:09:47,800 --> 00:09:55,399 games so we're going to go ahead and go up Shield games so we have real boxing 148 00:09:52,760 --> 00:09:59,560 Riptide gp2 Beach Buggy Blitz Sonic 4 Episode 2 and so these are this 149 00:09:57,720 --> 00:10:02,800 particularly is a Tegra HD game you can tell from the little logo in the top and 150 00:10:01,120 --> 00:10:05,600 if you want to shop for more of them you can check out the shield store there so 151 00:10:04,200 --> 00:10:10,600 they have everything from free games to paid games and you can of course use the 152 00:10:08,440 --> 00:10:13,880 regular Google Play Store as well it also comes pre-loaded with a couple of 153 00:10:12,079 --> 00:10:16,640 other applications including Twitch TV if you're a gamer who's got something 154 00:10:15,399 --> 00:10:21,279 like a shield there's a good chance you watch game streams on Twitch or maybe the line of tech tips when show on 155 00:10:19,640 --> 00:10:25,000 Twitch that's another option as well and I just want to cover a couple of other 156 00:10:22,760 --> 00:10:27,720 hardware specs before I give you guys sort of the followup so actually no I'll 157 00:10:26,800 --> 00:10:34,839 tell you what we're going to follow up with first we're going to be doing get Shield versus our actual shield in terms 158 00:10:31,920 --> 00:10:39,440 of latency comparison so guys stay tuned for that that's going to be really 159 00:10:36,079 --> 00:10:41,480 exciting remember that Shield has a very 160 00:10:39,440 --> 00:10:46,839 excellent Wireless implementation so it's Wireless N but it's mimo so that is 161 00:10:44,680 --> 00:10:51,160 um pretty much an effective doubling of the available bandwidth and also because 162 00:10:48,720 --> 00:10:56,040 it uses the 5 gahz band it is able to potentially reduce interference with 163 00:10:53,519 --> 00:11:00,320 random household devices so there's that there's also the fact that it uses the 164 00:10:57,440 --> 00:11:04,279 built-in h264 encoding on Kepler in order to reduce the file sizes of the 165 00:11:02,680 --> 00:11:08,560 images that are being beamed to it when you're using the beta right now it's 166 00:11:06,079 --> 00:11:11,800 beta game streaming from your desktop so we want to compare latency as well as 167 00:11:10,079 --> 00:11:18,240 image quality to our ghetto Shield that we built using an HTC1 and an Xbox 360 168 00:11:15,440 --> 00:11:22,079 controller um it does have GPS built in it has 2 gigs of RAM and I think that's 169 00:11:20,680 --> 00:11:25,639 pretty much it for the stuff that I'd forgotten so far and then the second 170 00:11:23,920 --> 00:11:29,720 follow-up will be more of a long-term review I don't do many reviews but this 171 00:11:28,079 --> 00:11:34,200 is something that I'm going to spend probably a good month with and give you 172 00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:38,720 guys some idea once I have it how much do I actually use the bloody thing 173 00:11:35,920 --> 00:11:43,040 because I have an Android phone I have a PC so what am I going to use this for I 174 00:11:41,480 --> 00:11:48,120 don't know maybe that'll give you guys some idea if it's something that you'll use as well but I find the form factor 175 00:11:46,120 --> 00:11:52,240 very comfortable Shield has outstanding battery life better than pretty much any 176 00:11:49,920 --> 00:11:55,880 phone so it's great for watching things like movies in theory which I haven't 177 00:11:53,920 --> 00:11:58,440 done yet it's also more ergonomic to hold than something like a tablet 178 00:11:57,240 --> 00:12:02,920 necessarily when you're carrying it around with you you know put it down like that there see there's your movie 179 00:12:01,480 --> 00:12:07,320 whereas tablets you have to carry them around with what are often very awkward 180 00:12:05,240 --> 00:12:12,360 see like look at this this is uh sort of what I'd consider to be like a typical 181 00:12:08,920 --> 00:12:15,519 tablet case this is an Iconia W7 and you 182 00:12:12,360 --> 00:12:17,600 kind of like prop it up on this thing 183 00:12:15,519 --> 00:12:20,199 but I I never quite trust them whereas something like a shield makes a lot of 184 00:12:18,959 --> 00:12:23,440 sense to me but of course it has a smaller screen than most tablets at any 185 00:12:22,079 --> 00:12:28,120 rate guys that's it for the shield unboxing don't forget to subscribe to lus Tech tips for more unboxings reviews 186 00:12:26,240 --> 00:12:31,720 and other computer videos 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