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hey i'm donna bell for cnet.com and I'm giving you a first look at the Nvidia shield this is a 199 set-top streaming box that they've used in May it can handle everything you can throw about you can think about any kind of streaming boxing man how this one is like that except on steroids has the NVIDIA Tegra x1 processor built into it it also has a hdmi output that can handle up to 4k 60 frames per second output we've got two USB ports here we've got gigabit ethernet you got a little power adapter here a USB and micro SD expansion card slot has 16 gigabytes of storage baked into it but you can expand that with that memory card slot now it is nvidia so beyond just doing streaming of media content and uses the android TV operating system to do that you also got lots of gaming features built into this so you've got Nvidia zone grid streaming game service which is baked into this paying a monthly fee you can get access to stream a whole lot of video games bday android games console game pc games a lot of different content being brought that you can stream for free with a monthly fee then there's a grid download content that you can do where you can get high end pc games that you can stream at up to 1080p 60 frames per second streaming and you can use that you can use this box for that as well then of course like any of the other shield devices out there you can also stream PC games locally to the device that you can play your PC towers in the back of your house you can play it up in the front your house on your main TV streaming it using the Nvidia shield for the 199 price it also comes with a game controller this connects to the Nvidia shield using Wi-Fi direct very low latency you can connect up to four of these controllers to one Nvidia shield you can also have the option of buying a more television style remote control that has a little mic button here for activating google voice control so that you can speak into the remote there's a mic input on the remote and that's a nice little slider function here a little capacitive slider there's no pricing on this yet but it's available another cool thing that I like about both the gaming control that comes with it or the optional more TV style remote control is that they both have headphone jacks so that you can plug in a pair of headphones and listen to your content on headphones without annoying the people around you we also both have microphones built into them so they'll both work with google's voice control alright so there you go that is the Nvidia shield again due out in May for a base price of one hundred ninety nine dollars an exciting entry into the world of streaming media boxes if you really want a lot of power out of your streaming media box this is going to deliver that I'm also a great Android experience for your TV cnet com I'm Donald Bell giving you that first look at the Nvidia shield