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One more year, another new Shield gadget from NVIDIA. What's Shield? It's the equipment line from NVIDIA that compasses a peculiar handheld amusement support, an effective gaming tablet, and now a $200, Android TV-fueled set-top box. NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang divulged the Android TV-controlled set-top box this nighttime amid a GDC 2015 public interview, which the organization alluded to as a blend "progressive TV", "gaming reassure" and "supercomputer." Head underneath for all the specs as we gain them live from NVIDIA.
 NVIDIA's calling Shield the "world's initial 4K Android TV" - it's ready to both stream and by regional standards run 4K substance to your fancy 4K TV. How can it do that? It utilizes a bleeding edge X1 chip - the most capable portable processor NVIDIA's made to date. 

It's going to push that 4K substance by means of HDMI out back, and draw down gushed 4K substance through Gigabit Ethernet. Need some additional stockpiling? You may, as its just got 16GB of interior stores. Uplifting news: It's got a MicroSD development port and two USB 3.0 ports for an outside HDD. You'll require some additional stockpiling with every one of those colossal feature records. 


All in all, what about that third segment of today's presentation: the supercomputer bit? That clearly sticks NVIDIA's GRID membership based amusement spilling administration - Huang's stating the Shield basically has admittance to a supercomputer in the cloud. 

What does this mean for you, potential Shield proprietor? It implies you can subscribe to NVIDIA's soon-to-dispatch GRID amusement gushing administration and play high-fueled PC amusements mainly that are being played remotely on a much all the more capable machine.


Intrigued? There are two memberships to GRID: a free one (which empowers paid amusement rentals and buys) and a paid one that empowers a whatever you-can-play membership model. The administration will dispatch nearby the support not long from now. No less than one variant of the stream will run in 1080p, 60 edges every second; if this sounds well known, that is, on account of the GRID administration has existed for quite a long while now. It would seem that GRID is leaving beta with the Shield set-top box. 

At the point when the gadget dispatches this May, it will cost $200 and accompany an NVIDIA Shield gamepad and also the set-top box itself.
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