Do you have an NVIDIA SHIELD? The SHIELD’s storage of 500gb provides a lot of space to store movies and TV shows on and it’s also WiFi compatible if you want to add more stuff to it. Prior to the new Shield update, the hardware could only play video from your media server like any other Android device. While the Plex Android TV app is a great way to stream from an existing Plex Media Server, today Plex and NVIDIA have announced that with the SHIELD’s 3.2 update coming later this month, it will be able to function as a Plex Media Server all on its own.
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The powerful streaming player can now act as a complete Plex solution.
As you might know, we’ve had a lovely Android TV app for quite some time now, and it’s getting better all the time. “Now, with the addition of Plex Media Server on SHIELD, the experience has been taken to a whole new level”. “In the future we’d like to expand to support accelerated transcoding on other platforms, as well”. The SHIELD can then stream it to any connected device, including PCs, smart TVs, tablets and mobile phones.
“This thing was born to run Plex”, Feingold said, pointing to its Tegra X1 processor, 64-bit CPU, and 256 Maxwell-class GPU.
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The NVIDIA SHIELD Pro retails for $299.99. You read that right: the SHIELD is so powerful that it cannot only run our Android TV interface better than just about anything out there, it can also run the full media server, including support for hardware-accelerated video transcoding (H.264, MPEG2 and HEVC)! Transferring files has never been easier as the update will also allow users to drag and drop files from PCs and Macs directly to SHIELD via network share functionality.
