The Shield Pro, Nvidia’s gaming console and 4K streaming box, is now shipping. If you want to be an early adopter of the nascent Android TV platform, this is one of your only options, and it’s certainly the cheapest. Sharp and Sony currently have the only Android TV-powered sets on store shelves, and while you can get it on Google’s $79 Nexus Player set-top box, that device doesn’t support 4K.
The Shield Pro is the stronger sibling of the $199 Shield. A powerful, portable console with 500GB of storage, it’s packed with Nvidia’s Tegra X1 — the mobile “superchip” unveiled at CES — and 3GB of RAM. All that makes the Shield Pro twice as powerful as an Xbox 360 with half the power output. Users can stream games with the Nvidia GRID, a…
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