The cloud also matches


The cloud also matches


Nvidia Shield Android TV gives access to Geforce Now, a netflix of games that allows to play large productions for 9.99 euros per month, and plays multimedia content in 4K



What Nvidia Shield Android TV does is almost magic. You connect the sober box of 25 x 210 x 130 millimeters to the television and it becomes a last generation PC dedicated to running video games with an amazing graphic quality. The key to this amazing performance is not in the machine, which assembles an efficient but somewhat modest Nvidia Tegra X1 chip with 3GB of RAM , identical to the one it carries in its Nintendo Switch casings, but in the service that the California company, architect of some of the most advanced graphics cards in the market, has in the cloud.


GeForce Now is a kind of Netflix of video games that, in addition to allowing the purchase of titles individually, offers, for a fee of 9.99 euros per month -the first three months are free-, more than a hundred games and prevents the player the important outlay that requires updating the computer when it comes to running the latest games in the market.

Actually, the titles are executed on the remote servers that Nvidia has scattered around the world and through real-time video broadcast the player receives the result on the screen. The client must have at least 10 MB of internet connection. From there, the service adapts to the speed of the network, being able to reach a maximum resolution of 1080p and a refresh rate of 60 frames per second. The other great advantage is that the user avoids the installations and can be put to play in 30 seconds. Tested on a symmetrical 300 MB fiber optic network, the result is spectacular.


The lag - the response time that passes between the player performing an action with the controller and is reflected on the screen - is practically imperceptible and does not pose any problem to play titles like 'The Witcher III' or 'Mad Max' with All the graphic detail to the maximum. It is true that in other genres such as the fight, where reflexes and synchronization are vital, the concept can reach water, as shown by some games to 'Street Fighter V'. And there is a thorny issue: depending on the stability of the connection it is likely that streaming is not always perfect. 'No Man's Sky',

The device can also serve as a bridge between the home computer and the living room television through Gamestream . This option opens the door to the entire video game library that the user has on his PC, without having to move the computer to the living room. The performance is slightly better than with Geforce Now, although it also depends on the graphics card that the user possesses. Finally, as far as the playable spectrum is concerned, you can access the vast majority of Android games that Google Play hosts.

Multimedia content
The other big leg on which Nvidia Shield Android TV stands is the reproduction of multimedia content. The machine pales less powerful solutions such as Fire TV and Apple TV and is capable of playing videos in 4K resolution and 60 frames per second - it is essential, of course, to have a TV compatible with Ultra HD.

In this sense, it executes with surprising agility the latest version of Android TV, the operating system that Google has developed to serve content to smart TVs. Browse between the different apps -Netflix, Spotify, Plex, Google Play Movies, RTVE ...- and its contents, some of them in Ultra HD, is easy and fast. In fact, the pad that accompanies the Nvidia Shield Android TV has a built-in microphone that allows you to search for content or on the internet with your voice. The face recognition system of Google allows, even, that when watching a movie the system tells you who is the actor that is coming out on screen and in what other films has participated.

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