New NVIDIA SHIELD Android TV - Helpful or creepy?
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2017-05-06
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829 words · ~4 min read
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huge shout out to synergy synergy is the
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software that lets you share one Mouse and one keyboard between multiple
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computers we reviewed it in the past and it works like magic check out the link
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in the video description the brand spanking new NVIDIA Shield TV is here
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and it comes with a lot of changes it's
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4K and HDR ready and it comes with support for Netflix 4K HDR and Amazon
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video 4K HDR and NVIDIA is directly claiming that their device has more 4K
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content in terms of shows than any other Smart TV device on the market which is
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pretty wicked if you have a TV that can display that and they even have 360
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video support through YouTube if you're into that kind of thing on the gaming
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side of things it still has access to NVIDIA game stream so you can use your
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desktop PC to do all the leg work of actually running your games and then use
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your network to send it to the NVIDIA shield and play it on your TV with like
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controller pass through and all that kind of fun stuff but now in 4k and HDR
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which is great just like like Netflix and Amazon and now you have access to
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GeForce now so you can pay NVIDIA to access Pascal performance through the
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cloud just in case you don't have a super nice gaming PC already physically
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the 16 GB version has gotten 40% smaller
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while the 500 GB version is essentially the same size and it has retained its
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old and greatl looking aesthetic but I must add that both of the new shields
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have the same Tegra X1 processor that the old Shield had performance-wise it's
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not different and that means that if you had the previous Shield like I do so
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this is a nice note for me you'll just be able to download software updates and
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have all of the software features including ones that I haven't mentioned yet on your older Shield they also now
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both have IR receivers so you can control the volume on your TV which is
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actually nice as before it was only compatible with certain TVs I think most
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of them were Sony but whatever also the controller is getting dual haptic
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feedback so you can feel vibrations in your games even with game stream if
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you're shooting it over the network it still works the 16 GB version has a
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slightly narrowed down I/O feature set than the 500 gig I believe the main
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lacking feature is SD cards but I don't
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expect a huge amount of people will use those because there's a USB port if you
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don't just want to put a big USB drive that probably makes a little bit more sense and both of them have Google
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Assistant just like the Google home making this a solid replacement for the
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Google home considering the 16 GB version only costs I think about $60 or
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$70 more and has a massively increased feature set meaning that if you set it
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up you can do something like okay Google start my day and you can have the lights
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and the thermostat and the coffee pot all turn on and get ready to go and then
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when you're ready to leave you can just say Okay Google I'm leaving and all of
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those things can turn off and whatnot to expand the smart home compatibility you
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can plug in a smart things extender and get stuff like your coffee pots and all
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that whatnot extended I believe that's from Samsung you can pick up one of
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those and it's compatible with your NVIDIA Shield then there's the NVIDIA
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spot which will act as a mic and a speaker and you can plug them in
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anywhere in your home as they're just little adapter things that go into a standard wall plug these will expand
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your Google Assistant throughout your house for 50 bucks a pop and if that's
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really freaking you out a lot you can put it into privacy mode through the app
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on your phone or through the shield software or possibly a couple other ways
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the 16 GB version of The Shield will cost $199 just like before and the 500
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GB version will cost $299 also just like
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before I'll probably have a review coming later on thanks again to Synergy
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for allowing us to be here at CES Synergy is a software download that
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allows you to share one Mouse and one keyboard between multiple computers
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regardless of the OS so you'll no longer
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confuse which keyboard is for your Windows workstation which one's for your
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Mac 1 and which one's for your Linux one so check it out at the link in the video
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description