(Note that I don’t have a TV with HDR, but the 4K picture quality and HD streaming was some of the best I’ve seen.)Īudio match the video quality as the Shield has more surround sound capabilities than any other streaming player to date. UHD, 4K content is available from the four services along with 4K HDR from Netflix and Amazon and it is simply an amazing picture quality. The Shield comes pre-installed with the usual Android fare- Google Music, Google Movies and YouTube- as well as Netflix, Vudu, Amazon, and Plex. Whatever title you have highlighted appears as a backdrop at the top of the screen. All lines are continued in a horizontal carousal. Below that is a couple of lines of the installed apps. The top line shows videos, games, music and photos that you’ve recently accessed along with recommendations of what you might to check out in other apps based on what you have been viewing. The home screen is easier to use than previous generations. Still, setup was straightforward and relatively quick. Thera are a few bugs that need to be squashed (NVIDIA is working on this) as it stopped working we had to go back to manually setting up the wifi and Google account. In the phone’s Google app say “set up my device.” Although it found the Shield, this was one of the few experiences that didn’t work as it should. If you have an Android phone or tablet, you can fully set up the shield with your Google account. Its powerful processor handles all of it smoothly and a new menu system makes it easy to get around.įrom the first time you turn it on, it is clear that the Shield has an Android operating system. It includes everything from broadcast TV with DVR to Sling TV for cable channels, to most movie streaming services.
While the NVIDIA Shield TV 2 is without a doubt the best streaming player for gamers, it’s also a streamer that is all an Android TV should be-easy to use, feature rich, a cord-cutters dream. I’ve had a chance to check one out over the past couple weeks and it appears they’ve succeeded in exceeding my expectations. When the second generation NVIDIA Shield TV was demonstrated at CES 2017, the company made a lot of promises.
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