WEBVTT 00:00:05.560 --> 00:00:10.960 buy a qualifying Intel product and get entered in the Intel Dynamic ticket 00:00:09.200 --> 00:00:15.679 giveaway for a chance to win great prizes visit Intel gaming promo.com to 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 00:00:17.600 --> 00:00:25.400 the NVIDIA Shield number one is I built myself a ghetto Shield which you can 00:00:21.480 --> 00:00:28.199 check out and number two is 00:00:25.400 --> 00:00:32.599 this that is how excited I am about NVIDIA Shield I know video is getting a 00:00:30.640 --> 00:00:36.800 lot of flack about this product from the Enthusiast saying if I wanted to play 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 00:00:38.200 --> 00:00:43.640 games I'd play them on my smartphone or saying it's too expensive or saying 00:00:41.559 --> 00:00:48.360 whatever whatever and whatever else personally I am extremely excited about 00:00:46.239 --> 00:00:53.160 it for a number of reasons number one is this is the first consumer grade device 00:00:50.920 --> 00:00:57.640 that features a Tegra 4 processor so Tegra 4 might not necessarily be all 00:00:55.239 --> 00:01:01.680 about the CPU aspect of the performance but it is all about GPU and early 00:01:00.199 --> 00:01:05.560 benchmarks of Shield seem to be indicating that compared particularly to 00:01:03.879 --> 00:01:11.080 the gpus you can get in most modern smartphones these days even things like 00:01:07.439 --> 00:01:13.000 the Samsung Galaxy S4 it is very very 00:01:11.080 --> 00:01:19.040 powerful so it's a capable little gaming platform and number two is the fact that 00:01:15.960 --> 00:01:21.840 it enables not only the ability to play 00:01:19.040 --> 00:01:27.520 Android devices or to Android devices to play Android games on a dedicated device 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 00:01:30.000 --> 00:01:35.920 console grade controller now I've had my 00:01:33.399 --> 00:01:39.439 Hands-On Shield before uh back when we did an episode of netlink weekly so I 00:01:37.680 --> 00:01:44.479 already know what the fit and finish is like and guys it is absolutely fantastic 00:01:42.520 --> 00:01:50.439 so included with the Box you get the shield device itself you get the 00:01:46.960 --> 00:01:52.399 wallwart which has uh NVIDIA's well 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 00:01:54.280 --> 00:02:00.960 a micro USB charging cable I still hate micro USB I understand why they're using 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 00:02:02.560 --> 00:02:08.640 acts as a product tour although NVIDIA has some great videos on their YouTube 00:02:07.280 --> 00:02:17.280 channel that can walk you through the whole process of setting it up it comes 00:02:12.560 --> 00:02:19.400 with on the back here a mini HDMI out so 00:02:17.280 --> 00:02:22.920 you can run it directly to your TV if you wanted to do that for whatever 00:02:21.239 --> 00:02:26.680 reason although personally i' expect most people to use it handheld it has 00:02:24.640 --> 00:02:30.480 micro USB right there for charging a headphone microphone Jack this is the 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 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 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 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 00:02:46.000 --> 00:02:51.480 with a an s or micro SD XC in fact we 00:02:49.599 --> 00:02:55.120 have one that's a very high performance SanDisk one that runs at about 80 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 00:02:57.200 --> 00:03:03.840 seen it in action like I said before doesn't interfere with where your 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 00:03:05.480 --> 00:03:11.280 does need active cooling so that's the only exhaust vent right there but it 00:03:09.440 --> 00:03:15.480 exhausts away from your finger so you've got the two shoulder buttons right here 00:03:13.519 --> 00:03:21.239 left and right as well as two trigger buttons so those are nice analog buttons 00:03:18.080 --> 00:03:23.640 with varying uh sensitivity levels just 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 00:03:24.840 --> 00:03:30.400 call them tags or something like that whatever whatever branding they have for 00:03:28.360 --> 00:03:33.000 them you can basically swap out these top I think they were calling them 00:03:31.640 --> 00:03:37.000 Shields at the beginning and that was part of where the name came from but at 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 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 00:03:42.080 --> 00:03:47.400 knew someone who happens to be sort of crafty then I would probably just get 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 00:03:49.879 --> 00:03:57.120 spending more money on it the bottom of the device has a very nice rubberized 00:03:55.040 --> 00:04:01.439 grip hopefully that's not going to come off over time it doesn't really feel 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 00:04:04.319 --> 00:04:10.760 the one thing about the feeling of Shield that um sort of put me off a 00:04:09.040 --> 00:04:14.159 little bit at first particularly I'm going to have to let you guys know once 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 00:04:15.879 --> 00:04:21.560 be using and I will be doing a more extensive followup on letting you guys 00:04:20.000 --> 00:04:25.240 know exactly what I think of NVIDIA Shield but the one thing that puts me 00:04:23.240 --> 00:04:28.960 off a little bit about it is the weight it's quite heavy compared to something 00:04:27.320 --> 00:04:33.440 like a smartphone or other Android device compared to to what you might be 00:04:30.360 --> 00:04:35.479 used to however with that weight comes 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 00:04:38.160 --> 00:04:44.520 is strong a crappy hinge can take what otherwise might be a beautiful ID or a 00:04:42.560 --> 00:04:48.560 really nice device and turn it into something that is annoying and then 00:04:46.800 --> 00:04:52.560 finally useless when the thing actually breaks so I'm glad to see that they've 00:04:50.080 --> 00:04:56.120 invested in making the hinge correct I also know speaking of investing in 00:04:54.639 --> 00:05:01.520 making things correctly that they've gone through a ton of revisions on this 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 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 00:05:09.039 --> 00:05:16.120 here that feel very actually that's quite nice they've got a bit quite a 00:05:13.880 --> 00:05:20.759 linear feel to them okay yeah excited about that 00:05:18.759 --> 00:05:24.840 Android navigation buttons here so home back the custom NVIDIA button which 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 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 00:05:31.680 --> 00:05:36.800 up the PC streaming so PC streaming requires a few different things number 00:05:35.360 --> 00:05:40.199 one is you need a shield number two is you need the latest drivers and GeForce 00:05:38.400 --> 00:05:45.759 experience for your desktop number three is you need a Kepler GPU so that's 00:05:41.919 --> 00:05:47.120 NVIDIA 600 series 650 TI and up I 00:05:45.759 --> 00:05:51.880 believe don't maybe don't quote me on that um but honestly I'd recommend 00:05:49.919 --> 00:05:56.759 anything from sort of a 660 and up if you want to have a great experience 00:05:54.160 --> 00:06:00.319 whether it's on the desktop or below 650 TI boost actually isn't bad either 00:05:58.199 --> 00:06:03.919 though okay anyway you need a game that you need the latest beta version of 00:06:02.280 --> 00:06:07.039 steam so you have to enable beta builds of steam and then you should pretty much 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 00:06:08.639 --> 00:06:13.880 once and then you have to have the shield running on the same Wi-Fi network 00:06:12.160 --> 00:06:19.680 as the network that your PC is attached to contrary to NVIDIA setup video where 00:06:16.639 --> 00:06:22.360 they show both the PC and shield 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 00:06:24.680 --> 00:06:29.400 be connected through the same router so you press the NVIDIA button in the 00:06:28.080 --> 00:06:34.240 middle to fire it up you can see they have a helpful instruction thing here on 00:06:31.440 --> 00:06:37.560 the uh cover the one thing that bothers me and other people that I've seen 00:06:36.000 --> 00:06:41.319 already a little bit about Shield is that the 5in 720p display multi-touch 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 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 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 00:06:51.520 --> 00:06:58.520 little bit because having a big bezel around a monitor really does make it 00:06:55.319 --> 00:07:00.360 look smaller than it is 720p and 5 in 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 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 00:07:06.680 --> 00:07:13.400 here's why it feels small so besides the larger bezel people hold their phones 00:07:10.199 --> 00:07:14.599 like this so there's no interface here 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 00:07:17.560 --> 00:07:22.840 you're going to hold it in a similar position but look how much farther the 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 00:07:24.560 --> 00:07:30.680 bit on the smaller side it's also because of the bulkiness of the device 00:07:28.560 --> 00:07:35.599 itself this contrasts sharply with something like the steel Series 3 which 00:07:33.039 --> 00:07:38.360 is their little Bluetooth uh controller that you compare to your phone and 00:07:36.800 --> 00:07:41.680 didn't end up being a very successful product but with the shield NVIDIA's 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 00:07:43.879 --> 00:07:49.080 and everything else sort of well so much 00:07:47.199 --> 00:07:53.199 so much for that there's a couple tuned speakers here actually I never did 00:07:50.520 --> 00:07:57.599 finish the uh the the guided tour there's a microphone Port right there 00:07:54.960 --> 00:08:01.800 and then abxy buttons so you can actually use not only the touch screen 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 00:08:03.080 --> 00:08:08.680 you through that in a moment once I go through the startup process so as you 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 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 00:08:14.400 --> 00:08:19.639 quick get getting started guide so it shows you the NVIDIA Button as well as 00:08:18.039 --> 00:08:25.199 walking you through the navigation buttons and well okay so the abxy button 00:08:23.680 --> 00:08:31.199 showing you the functionality that they mostly have so a is usually confirmed B 00:08:27.479 --> 00:08:33.279 is usually back and then finally aha yes 00:08:31.199 --> 00:08:37.479 you can actually use the right joystick check that out as a virtual Mouse 00:08:35.360 --> 00:08:41.000 pointer for precision movements and this is the kind of thing I may end up 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 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 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 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 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 00:08:58.240 --> 00:09:04.839 device before you'll have probably seen all the stuff that I just did because 00:09:01.920 --> 00:09:08.079 this is a completely stock Android device in fact one of the things that 00:09:06.120 --> 00:09:12.959 NVIDIA is committed to on their web page for shield is timely upgrades to the 00:09:10.920 --> 00:09:16.760 latest Android operating systems so they've only really made a couple small 00:09:14.440 --> 00:09:20.600 changes to it and that is well pretty much this so pressing the NVIDIA button 00:09:18.959 --> 00:09:24.959 gives you Shield games that you have installed the shield store PC games so 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 00:09:26.920 --> 00:09:33.360 okay you can use the d-pad just like 00:09:30.200 --> 00:09:34.720 that you can use the left analog stick 00:09:33.360 --> 00:09:38.160 okay especially if you're not clumsy about it and finally you can use the 00:09:36.560 --> 00:09:41.959 shoulder buttons to navigate through the different menus so you have almost so 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 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 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 00:09:52.760 --> 00:09:59.560 Riptide gp2 Beach Buggy Blitz Sonic 4 Episode 2 and so these are this 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 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 00:10:04.200 --> 00:10:10.600 they have everything from free games to paid games and you can of course use the 00:10:08.440 --> 00:10:13.880 regular Google Play Store as well it also comes pre-loaded with a couple of 00:10:12.079 --> 00:10:16.640 other applications including Twitch TV if you're a gamer who's got something 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 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 00:10:22.760 --> 00:10:27.720 hardware specs before I give you guys sort of the followup so actually no I'll 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 00:10:31.920 --> 00:10:39.440 of latency comparison so guys stay tuned for that that's going to be really 00:10:36.079 --> 00:10:41.480 exciting remember that Shield has a very 00:10:39.440 --> 00:10:46.839 excellent Wireless implementation so it's Wireless N but it's mimo so that is 00:10:44.680 --> 00:10:51.160 um pretty much an effective doubling of the available bandwidth and also because 00:10:48.720 --> 00:10:56.040 it uses the 5 gahz band it is able to potentially reduce interference with 00:10:53.519 --> 00:11:00.320 random household devices so there's that there's also the fact that it uses the 00:10:57.440 --> 00:11:04.279 built-in h264 encoding on Kepler in order to reduce the file sizes of the 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 00:11:06.079 --> 00:11:11.800 beta game streaming from your desktop so we want to compare latency as well as 00:11:10.079 --> 00:11:18.240 image quality to our ghetto Shield that we built using an HTC1 and an Xbox 360 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 00:11:20.680 --> 00:11:25.639 pretty much it for the stuff that I'd forgotten so far and then the second 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 00:11:28.079 --> 00:11:34.200 is something that I'm going to spend probably a good month with and give you 00:11:32.000 --> 00:11:38.720 guys some idea once I have it how much do I actually use the bloody thing 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 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 00:11:46.120 --> 00:11:52.240 very comfortable Shield has outstanding battery life better than pretty much any 00:11:49.920 --> 00:11:55.880 phone so it's great for watching things like movies in theory which I haven't 00:11:53.920 --> 00:11:58.440 done yet it's also more ergonomic to hold than something like a tablet 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 00:12:01.480 --> 00:12:07.320 whereas tablets you have to carry them around with what are often very awkward 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 00:12:08.920 --> 00:12:15.519 tablet case this is an Iconia W7 and you 00:12:12.360 --> 00:12:17.600 kind of like prop it up on this thing 00:12:15.519 --> 00:12:20.199 but I I never quite trust them whereas something like a shield makes a lot of 00:12:18.959 --> 00:12:23.440 sense to me but of course it has a smaller screen than most tablets at any 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 00:12:26.240 --> 00:12:31.720 and other computer videos click like on the video if you liked it click dislike 00:12:29.639 --> 00:12:35.959 if you disliked it and definitely leave a comment if there's anything that you 00:12:33.680 --> 00:12:41.630 want me to particularly talk about when I'm giving my longer term impressions of 00:12:37.920 --> 00:12:52.039 NVIDIA Shield in an upcoming video