Home Theatre Sets: Console Television Sets

Thursday, January 15, 2009 By 1.bp.blogspot.com
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The Shield portable game streaming device by Nvidia Corp has been called “impractical” by some critics, but now Nvidia is taking its Android powered device into the living room with a new TV set-top console announced this week at Game Developers It has been a long time coming but finally chip maker Nvidia is making firm strides into consumer’s living rooms, with the announcement of the Shield Android TV-powered set-top box console. For around US$200, the users gets a 4K streaming box The new Shield will have it own store where users will be able to download Android titles (50 at launch) that have been optimised for the console. Talking about The Android TV-powered, gaming set-top box will retail this May in the US at 200 USD there are still enough irksome issues to make it feel like a second-class experience when compared to running the game on a proper console or PC. Set top boxes like Amazon Fire TV and Apple TV prove there's a growing demand for "smart" devices on our NVIDIA has just unveiled a new Android TV based console called the Shield, running the company’s latest Tegra X1 SoC which was unveiled a couple of months ago at the CES 2015 conference. Since this is based on Google’s proprietary platform, customers by adding an Android TV console to its portfolio. Available for $199, the Shield set-top box comes with a controller and runs on Google’s recently launched Android TV platform. The device is powered by Nvidia’s Tegra X1 processor which has a 256-core .

The struggle to get the high performance of a desktop PC on your big living room TV has been long and arduous The groove in the center cleverly conceals the volume control. The console/set top box also comes with a wireless Xbox-like controller At Mobile World Congress today Nvidia has announced a new console for your TV – which it claims will play games in The big differentiator though looks set to be games: The device packs a Tegra X1 processor, with 256-core Maxwell architecture GPU The Shield will also allow console games to be streamed using applications and games can be downloaded from the Play Store, with specialized TV-centric user interfaces. As competition in the set-top box market heats up, Apple has not updated its Nvidia's home console is powered by its Tegra X1, its new mobile "superchip" announced in January. CEO Jen-Hsun Huang is touting just how much more powerful this Shield is compared to current set-top boxes like Roku and Apple TV — but it's also about .