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despite having what was already the most advanced and capable media streamer on the market and Vidya is about to update their shield TV based on the improvements it is pretty clear that NVIDIA wants to shield TV to become not only an all-encompassing home entertainment hub but a smart home hub as well before you move on quick message from our sponsor the show coverage is possible thanks to Nvidia gigabyte fantex and NCIX while nothing was said about any internal changes the new shield TV features a sleeker 40% smaller but still familiar design and will now come bundled with both an updated gaming controller and a remote control you previously had to buy the remote so having both will certainly help cement the shield TV as one of the most complete entertainment devices for the living room assuming that the hardware has remained indeed the same this streaming device is powered by Nvidia's Tegra x1 chip which pairs an octa-core 64-bit ARM CPU with at 256 core Maxwell based GPU it also has the ability to play 4k videos in h.265 h.264 and vp9 and now it supports 4k HDR as well so that's awesome the support for 4k HDR is impressive and a critical selling point because up till now they've only been a handful of devices that can do so the shield TV blows them all away because it not only supports Netflix 4k HDR but it is the only media streamer to support Amazon video 4k HDR it now also supports Google Play movies & TV 4k Vudu 4k and YouTube 4k basically all the UHD bases are covered in a few months the YouTube TV app will also be available and that will bring the ability to view 360 degree videos as well since this is an Android nougat TV based device it has also been updated to the latest and greatest Android 7.0 and it can run thousands of apps including Amazon video Netflix YouTube Hulu HBO ESPN Vudu Showtime Pandora Spotify sling TV PlayStation View Plex Kodi etc there are now over a thousand fully optimized games in the Nvidia shield store over 100 of which and Vienna describes as console class if triple-a PC games are what you want GeForce now can be used to stream PC games from the cloud or using in videos game stream you can cast games directly from your own as long it has a compatible GeForce GTX GPU apparently you'll be able to cast games up to 4k HDR but we will see how well that works out one huge announcement is that both Ubisoft Uplay and valve stream support are also incoming so gameplay possibilities on the shield TV are essentially going to be limitless the changes to the controller are pretty interesting changes are the elimination of capacitive buttons and axing the touchpad since Android n has new features that don't require it unfortunately feedback about the controller was mixed from our team of three the thinner body part is great for smaller hands but some of us thought the new angle or surface wasn't comfortable arguably the most surprising thing we saw was the addition of Google assistant an intelligent personal assistant developed by Google no other device aside from Google's high in pixel phones have this unique voice based features so how will you interact with the Google assistant well the newly included remote has an always listening microphone built-in and it supports a number of hands-free t v-- commands to expand the AI functionality of the entire home and video will also have a peripheral for the shield TV the NVIDIA spot microphone speaker accessory this golf ball-sized Wi-Fi connected gadget plugs into any electrical outlet and it can hear your commands questions from up to 20 feet away it then wirelessly routes the queries to the shield TV and playbacks to reply from the nearest spot device availability is a few months away and it will retail for a $50 USD ok Google pause and then they'll be implementing media controls to be able to pause play fast-forward to rewind ok Google show me my pictures from 2015 so those are 2015 pictures nicely displayed up to 4k resolution okay google pull up my pictures of jensen okay face recognition on all the pictures of the jensen phones the new shield TV in 16 gigabyte form-factor is available for pre-order now and it will ship in the united states canada and select European regions later this month for $200 USD if 16 gigabytes is not enough for you leave 300 dollar USD shield Pro will also be available later this month with a 500 gigabyte storage and a remote with a headset jack since the shield TV features two USB 3.0 ports a micro SD card slot and Gigabit LAN port and obviously 802 11 AC Wi-Fi you probably don't need the version with the built-in two and a half inch 500 gigabyte hard drive but that's up to you by the way if you own an existing shield TV there will be an update coming your way that will upgrade your device to Android 7.0 and will give you every feature mentioned about however you'll need to buy the $50 remote control if you want to use the Google assistant feature since that remote contains the necessary microphone that you will need for voice controls so there you have it not only has the shield TV become less expensive but it has also become much more capable it will be interesting to get this on our hands to test sometime after the show I mean we're with hurricane axe thank you so much for watching and we'll see you in the next video