NVIDIA SHIELD Android TV - Best in class set top box?
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2016-05-06
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1,580 words · ~7 min read
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NVIDIA has quite the lineup of Shield products now they have the shield
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portable which is kind of the all-encompassing handheld version which
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you can see lonus review here or you can see me making a ghetto version of it
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here they have the Shield tablet which you can see lonus review up here or
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finally they have the shield console which you can see by doing nothing if
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you want to see a video on the Zotac hybrid cooled Arctic Storm gently caress
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the like button down below
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Corsair delivers real Mech or nothing with the new strafe mechanical keyboard
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featuring genuine german-made Cherry MX switches click now to learn more The
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Shield Android TV console rocks the beast mode NVIDIA Tegra X1 featuring an
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8 core CPU with four cortex a57 cores
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and four cortex a53 cores alongside a
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256 core Maxwell GPU and 3 GB of gddr4
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RAM that's computationally two times as powerful as an Xbox 360 and six times
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the RAM at considerably less power draw
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meaning it's the first device to run Android TV in 4k and you can play stuff
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like Crisis 3 Borderlands the Pre-Sequel Telltale Games Wolf Among Us and Game of
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Thrones halflife 2 War Thunder which has freaking crossplatform support doom 3
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and many more natively just by downloading them from the store and
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while that's awesome awesome and it plays all these things
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impressively I didn't see things like Witcher 3 or even Hearthstone on there
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for that matter so what are your other options well right off the bat you have
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game stream this being a PC Centric Channel I suspect that most of you will
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be able to start game stream almost immediately if you have an NVIDIA GPU
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what exactly is game stream well Linus should have a Techquickie episode on
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that coming soon so stay tuned for that but for now basically you can use the
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power of your NVIDIA GPU equipped computer to do all the heavy lifting
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that comes with running a game and use another device like the shield console
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to recapture that output data from the computer receive controller inputs from
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you and display out to a screen this allows you to play pretty much whatever
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the hell PC game you want as long as your computer can play it but requires
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the use of your computer and another device like the shield console and you
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must have a strong Network link between them if you don't want to use your other
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computer or maybe don't have another computer that can support this you have
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the grid option which is essentially where NVIDIA uses their Cloud setup to
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act as your computer and honestly it works pretty great but you need to have
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a very good connection to support it and it will Chomp through your bandwidth
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limit if you have one a connection speed of 5 to 15 megabits per second will get
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you 720p 30 FPS and a connection speed
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of 15 and above will get you 1080p 60
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FPS now game stream is free if you have the hardware for it and the currently
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still in beta grid option is a paid service after July 31st 2015 so keep
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that in mind as of right now they have about 45 Games available which while it
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may sound like a lot is a little lacking in actuality in the future they will be
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an option of the grid store where you can buy new games right as they come out
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but we're still waiting to see the cost structure Behind these things the io on
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the back of the unit is a Micro SD card slot micro USB 2 USB 3.0 ports an
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Ethernet Jack HDMI and power speaking of
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which you can use those ports to expand your storage with micro SD cards or
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external hard drives and you will probably want to do this unless you get
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the 500 GB model as the 16 GB model
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fills up quite quickly now if you're someone who cares about Aesthetics damn
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you're in good hands this thing looks really nice the aggressively angled
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panels of mixed black plastic and brushed aluminum looks amazing pretty
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much wherever you put it and the subtle green LED lighting looks perfect in my
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opinion but can be controlled in the software just in case it isn't really
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your thing and it doesn't stop there if you spring for the additional stand you
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get treated to pretty much the same with really sharp looking brushed aluminum
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all around it which while it makes me a little paranoid about fingerprints it's
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mostly okay as it will pretty much just sit there and look nice and you don't
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really need to do much with it on the bottom there's one of the stickiest
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rubbery surfaces I've ever dealt with which means if you kind of bump bump
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into it or accidentally try to put something in the way it's not really
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going to move which is kind of nice the remote is a thing of beauty as well but
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to be honest it just plain scares the out of me NVIDIA clearly loves
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brushed aluminum and like that's cool that's cool I'm happy you guys want to
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put quality materials onto your products and I hate hammering on you for it but
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God I can't even use the thing I get sweaty hands and the brush aluminum
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that's on the back and front of this product would just look like garbage
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after while of me using it so I've resorted to using the foam packaging
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that it comes in right out of the box if you want to see review of the controller
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that comes with it click here to see Linus cover it in The Shield tablet
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review that annotation should be timestamped but we're not even
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necessarily 100% sure if that even works so if it isn't just jump to 2 minutes
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and 45 seconds in conclusion this thing's sick the controller alone is
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badass and cost about $60 tack on another 140 and you get a 4K capable
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Chromecast essentially without those overheating issues and stuff that people
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have been having with them and a surprisingly extremely capable gaming
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machine which has the ability to tap into the power of your gaming rig or the
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NVIDIA grid which is very awesome should
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you rush out and buy one obviously only if it would benefit your setup by adding
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this into the ecosystem but I do think that this thing is seriously cool and if
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you have the budget for it it could be a great addition now I'm always saying
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that mass drop you know the site where you you go and they've got like stuff
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and if a lot of people agree to buy it you know the community is like yeah we
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want to buy one of those and M drop's like okay we'll try and find one and
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then if a bunch of other people are like hey I well I want to buy it too the
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price goes down that's how the whole thing works I'm always saying they have
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a wide variety of things available lots of keyboards lots of you know monitors
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even things like knives well today something that we've never talked about
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before the feature dropped today is an AE ap10 HD drone it features a high
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voltage battery it actually has a maximum flight time of somewhere in the
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neighborhood of 25 minutes it reaches a Max altitude of 500 M although you're
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going to want to check your local regulations in case you that's too high
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for regulations and can capture both 16
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megapixel Stills as well as 1080p High defition video okay lonus that's great
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there's a lot of drones that do that what's special about this one well the fact that it's available for $599.99 at
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its lowest drop so you guys are going to want to head over to draw upups SL Linus
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this drop and many more join up at Mass
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drop and you'll start spending money I know that doesn't necessarily sound like
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a solid pitch for you guys the viewer but it's good because you actually save
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money on the like cool gadgetry and neat stuff that they've got over there so
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check it out shop around a bit see if you find something I know that I usually
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