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Nvidia Confirms Shield Pro-console with 500GB
An Nvidia employee has confirmed a Pro edition of Nvidia's streaming Shield Console, to be released in May close to Computex. The console will come with Android TV in the Pro as a normal version with Tegra X1-soc.
The Pro edition will get 500GB version has been confirmed by ManuelG, an Nvidia employee active here on our forums. It's also noted that the console will support Netflix, and if it can do Ultra HD that will come in handy for a lot of people. The regular Shield console will get 16GB of NAND capacity. The Pro version was rumored after it appeared and disappeared real fast on amazon.
You should not expect any further differences other than storage capacity in-between the regular and Pro model. As stated both streaming consoles will run Android TV and work with the GRID streaming service. These boxes will get a Tegra X1 soc with four Cortex A57 and four Cortex A53 cores. The embedded GPU is Maxwell based with two smm units and a total of 256 stream/cuda/shader processors.
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#5077265 Posted on: 05/21/2015 05:12 PM
Stream from your PC, stream from GRID, and play games are the gaming purposes. But I think it's good to have something like this for storage. Great for multimedia purposes(video, audio, pictures). Lower powered compared to other PC's easily. Even more some of the games they are porting such as Crysis 3 already takes a lot of space on a PC, so imagine what it'll take on this guy.
500GB? Can sombody please tell me what I'd need 500GB for? Doesn't it work like a pure receiver device, like streaming to a table? Or am I just getting the wrong idea?
Stream from your PC, stream from GRID, and play games are the gaming purposes. But I think it's good to have something like this for storage. Great for multimedia purposes(video, audio, pictures). Lower powered compared to other PC's easily. Even more some of the games they are porting such as Crysis 3 already takes a lot of space on a PC, so imagine what it'll take on this guy.
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#5077331 Posted on: 05/21/2015 06:00 PM
Current teevee's on the market that can do this already are two a penny.
I can see here in the UK (probably the same everywhere else in the world) you can get a UHD smart teevee that takes a USB 'drive and has a GUI that lets you record teevee directly to the 'stick, or, to any networked device via wifi for £500.
Why anyone would buy one these 'boxes is beyond me - just buy a new teevee and get everything.
The games these things run are old, old, old.
Current teevee's on the market that can do this already are two a penny.
I can see here in the UK (probably the same everywhere else in the world) you can get a UHD smart teevee that takes a USB 'drive and has a GUI that lets you record teevee directly to the 'stick, or, to any networked device via wifi for £500.
Why anyone would buy one these 'boxes is beyond me - just buy a new teevee and get everything.
The games these things run are old, old, old.
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#5077409 Posted on: 05/21/2015 07:09 PM
Current teevee's on the market that can do this already are two a penny.
I can see here in the UK (probably the same everywhere else in the world) you can get a UHD smart teevee that takes a USB 'drive and has a GUI that lets you record teevee directly to the 'stick, or, to any networked device via wifi for £500.
Why anyone would buy one these 'boxes is beyond me - just buy a new teevee and get everything.
The games these things run are old, old, old.
My smart TV can stream from my NAS but the layout is ugly and it takes forever to scroll through the list of 10 movies it can display on screen at a time. When you have a library of 1,500 videos, that takes quite a while.
As for your games comment, the whole point of this device is to use Nvidia's new streaming service. Last I checked Crysis3 and the new Borderlands game weren't exactly old.
If you have one, and are interested on trying it, you should look at OpenELEC, it's a distro that only runs Kodi and in their latests versions it's running incredibly good even with the first models. And BTW it's not only a cheap alternative, it's small enough for the wife not to complain about "another gizmo"
I've tried it on the original Pi model B. It definitely ran better than the full blown Kodi but its still laggy. I bought a Pi2 recently but haven't gotten around to installing anything on it yet.
Current teevee's on the market that can do this already are two a penny.
I can see here in the UK (probably the same everywhere else in the world) you can get a UHD smart teevee that takes a USB 'drive and has a GUI that lets you record teevee directly to the 'stick, or, to any networked device via wifi for £500.
Why anyone would buy one these 'boxes is beyond me - just buy a new teevee and get everything.
The games these things run are old, old, old.
My smart TV can stream from my NAS but the layout is ugly and it takes forever to scroll through the list of 10 movies it can display on screen at a time. When you have a library of 1,500 videos, that takes quite a while.
As for your games comment, the whole point of this device is to use Nvidia's new streaming service. Last I checked Crysis3 and the new Borderlands game weren't exactly old.
If you have one, and are interested on trying it, you should look at OpenELEC, it's a distro that only runs Kodi and in their latests versions it's running incredibly good even with the first models. And BTW it's not only a cheap alternative, it's small enough for the wife not to complain about "another gizmo"
I've tried it on the original Pi model B. It definitely ran better than the full blown Kodi but its still laggy. I bought a Pi2 recently but haven't gotten around to installing anything on it yet.
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#5077442 Posted on: 05/21/2015 07:24 PM
Current teevee's on the market that can do this already are two a penny.
I can see here in the UK (probably the same everywhere else in the world) you can get a UHD smart teevee that takes a USB 'drive and has a GUI that lets you record teevee directly to the 'stick, or, to any networked device via wifi for £500.
Why anyone would buy one these 'boxes is beyond me - just buy a new teevee and get everything.
The games these things run are old, old, old.
But can it play Crysis? The Shield console can play Crysis 3.
Nvidia is really pushing their gpu's in their SoC plans. There's also a few other titles that are pretty awesome looking on Android and run on Tegra, there's even a Doom 3 port with full sikkmod and wulfen texture support that runs great on current SoC's.
You also cannot record anything with a smart TV on its own, or save files on it. It's a different market.
Now one thing where this may make or break the console is price. I got my alienware Alpha for $450, and because it's x86 Windows based I can do a lot more with it than I can an ARM based setup, and still keep low power usage.
Current teevee's on the market that can do this already are two a penny.
I can see here in the UK (probably the same everywhere else in the world) you can get a UHD smart teevee that takes a USB 'drive and has a GUI that lets you record teevee directly to the 'stick, or, to any networked device via wifi for £500.
Why anyone would buy one these 'boxes is beyond me - just buy a new teevee and get everything.
The games these things run are old, old, old.
But can it play Crysis? The Shield console can play Crysis 3.
Nvidia is really pushing their gpu's in their SoC plans. There's also a few other titles that are pretty awesome looking on Android and run on Tegra, there's even a Doom 3 port with full sikkmod and wulfen texture support that runs great on current SoC's.
You also cannot record anything with a smart TV on its own, or save files on it. It's a different market.
Now one thing where this may make or break the console is price. I got my alienware Alpha for $450, and because it's x86 Windows based I can do a lot more with it than I can an ARM based setup, and still keep low power usage.
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If you have one, and are interested on trying it, you should look at OpenELEC, it's a distro that only runs Kodi and in their latests versions it's running incredibly good even with the first models. And BTW it's not only a cheap alternative, it's small enough for the wife not to complain about "another gizmo"