Friday, October 18, 2019

Nvidia is working on new Shield TV and TV Pro smart media players

Nvidia has two new Shield TV players in the works - one appeared on Amazon, another on NewEgg. Those pages were pulled down, but not before people grabbed images and screenshots. The two players are powered by the Tegra X1+ chipset, which according to Nvidia is 25% faster than the X1 chipset of the original Shield TV. This is the same chipset that the Nintendo Switch uses, by the way, and while you can't play Switch games on the Shield, it should handle Android games and emulation with ease. But multimedia is the main focus. Dolby Vision HDR uses per-scene metadata for finer control...