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chances are you're spending a good amount of your time indoors and based on

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the fact that both YouTube and Netflix had to cut their stream quality to keep

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up with demand it seems like a lot of that time is being spent watching videos

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online like right

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now given that then it seems like now is

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a perfect time to investigate NVIDIA's claims about last year's new Shield TV

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because it has an awesome feature called AI upscaling which NVIDIA Claims can

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take lower quality content let's say 1080P and with the power of machine

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learning upscale said content to look like native

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4K sounds like a load of hor to me but

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Jake assures me that it's actually really really cool so let's

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proceed both the shield TV and shield TV

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pro feature NVIDIA's updated teger X1 plus 16 nanometer processor a fully

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fledged Android TV experience and support for 4K HDR video across

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basically every platform you can imagine along with C control on supported

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devices meaning that you can use your TV remote to control it and other than

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looks the only difference between the two of them is their RAM and storage

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configs along with support for running a Plex Media Server which is kind of like

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your own self-hosted private Netflix and support for NVIDIA share for capturing

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gameplay and streaming to Twitch it's also worth noting that the decreased RAM

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on the base model Shield means that it's unable to play some of the AAA games

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which were ported over to Android which NVIDIA had dubbed Advanced Android

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gaming or as I call it on the subject of

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gaming you might have noticed the lack of a shield game controller and the

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seemingly downgraded specs the biggest

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reason for it seems to be that this time around NVIDIA is back to pushing the

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Android TV aspect of the shield hard

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with gaming falling to quite literally the 13th section on the product page

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remember guys this is a product from NVIDIA I guess it kind of makes sense

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though I mean I already have a switch and a gaming PC so for me my shield is a

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streaming device first and a game console two or three times a year when

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family comes over this shift also makes it more price competitive without

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affecting the user experience much since why would you use this when basically

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any Bluetooth controller that you already own is going to work just fine

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with a shield so with that in mind the focus of our review is going to be

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around media streaming starting with the

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remote I cannot say that I've seen a remote quite like this one before it's

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bit heavier than your average remote but

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I will say the Triangular feel does give it a surprisingly comfortable hand feel

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the buttons feel pretty nice actually and thanks to the inclusion of an

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accelerometer the remote can actually sense when you pick it up and turn on

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the adjustable backlighting neat the rest of the design is really nothing

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special honestly aside from the gigantic Netflix button on the bottom which

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honestly I found kind of annoying because it's so easy to accidentally

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press the good news is that you can use the button remapper app to change what

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any of these buttons do there's also a buzzer inside the remote to make it

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easier to find in case you lose it every remote should have this Fe feature once

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it's on the setup procedure is brain dead easy pair your Android phone or

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iPhone sign your life away a few times and get greeted by the Android TV home

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screen with recommended content oozing from every one of its pores honestly

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that's about my only complaint about Android TV and then by extension The

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Shield experience it's a little pushy that is what 1 2 three four five that is

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five rows dedicated to just YouTube what

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even is this for for you can click left on each row because nobody cares about

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trending and get rid of it now we can

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finally take a look at what might be the coolest feature of this device NVIDIA's

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proprietary AI upscaling uses a combination of traditional upscaling

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where the image is simply stretched to fit the resolution combined with the

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power of a highly trained neural network to provide an experience that's close to

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if you were actually watching content that's native to whatever resolution

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you're upscaling to so in my case that's 4K so Jake's provided a couple of clips

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for us to try out to see just how good this AI upscaling is conveniently NVIDIA

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actually provides a handy dandy little hotkey that you can press to see a side

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by side of what basic versus AI enhanced

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upscaling looks like this is a 1080p clip but if we hold this button we can

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actually see a before and after and there's certain things that I would say

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do not work as well you end up with a little bit of weird shimmering and

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background vocus sometimes but

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man textures the way they manag to improve especially things like hair and

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environmental textures is absolutely

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mindblowing uh there's a little bit that we're going to look at

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later that's quite impressive little bit

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less so on him just cuz he's so close that there's not a lot of extra detail

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to pull out of it but this wood here actually here is pretty impressive

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too this is way more than just a sharpening filter look at that wood

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Stone hair actually these little berries

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here look markedly better with the AI up scaling versus without things that are

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moving really fast it seems to have a bit more wow the difference in these

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mountains here is night and day this too

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I feel like I got to sit a little bit further back here sorry guys I'm just going to be completely out of the frame

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here right now it's being fed with a 20 megabit 10 80P stream it is a great

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movie by the way Knives Out definitely worth a watch

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anyway in live action the effect is

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definitely more subtle but it's

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noticeable as I swipe across things like the textures of clothing hair so a lot

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of the same things that were better in the animation are also better here it's

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not overdone though that's the problem with Cheapo like I guess non aai

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upscaling is that it tends to just kind of sharpen everything whereas here you

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can really tell that it's being applied

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strategically like it doesn't sharpen this thing in the background here it

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only sharpens what you need to

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sharpen like the stubble here that's the detail that really stands out to the eye

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when you're sitting back at couch distance I don't know what else to say

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other than that NVIDIA's new AI upscaling Tech is not just another silly

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marketing gimmick with AI slapped on it

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it really does work and I guess that's

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just kind of the the theme like why would you spend $200 on a shield they

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just work you know whether it's Jake daily driving these two for the last

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month at home or the fact that I've been daily driving this thing since it came

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out in 2017 once you clean up the home screen and get your apps installed it's

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just kind of a Flawless experience it updates automatically it's easy for Less

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Tech literate people to use cuz CU they don't have to learn how to cast from their phone and of The Limited times

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that Jake tried NVIDIA game stream apparently it worked perfectly I don't

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know I don't really use it anymore with my 2017 model but uh cuz I've got a

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gaming PC there now but there you have it and probably the biggest standout he

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says is that the issues with his old chomecast or Xbox One or actually I've

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had these issues with my PC before too where certain video codecs will just

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buffer for no reason or content will be slow to initially load the shield TV

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have had 5 years to get to the point where they just freaking work and here

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we are NVIDIA's got support nailed down for pretty much every streaming service

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and video Codec that you can think of and for a media streaming box I really

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don't think there's much more that we can ask for so if you're in the market

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for something of this nature and you've got the extra cash to spend compared to

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a Roku or a chomecast a shield TV is

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