The Android TV-powered NVIDIA SHIELD has today received a sizeable software update, bringing a raft of new and improved features to the set top box, including Plex Media Server support with on-the-fly media transcoding.
Did you buy an NVIDIA SHIELD? Do you wish you hadn't? If the answer to those two things is a resounding "Yes!" then you may be very pleased to learn that there is a brand new killer app on the way that will make that SHIELD seem like a great idea. And that's no mean feat. The app we are talking about is Plex, the ever-popular media management and playback application, which today announced that an upcoming update to the app will add support for the - you guessed it - NVIDIA SHIELD hardware.
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There's been a great deal of excitement in the air surrounding Apple's introduction of the new Apple TV. The black set-top box, which now sits proudly in its fourth-generation, is intended to reinvigorate the media experience in the living room by introducing a dedicated App Store that has a strong focus on media rich apps and purpose built gaming experiences. It seems that Apple's focus has been rewarded, with a new report suggesting that the Cupertino-based company now has a larger market share than Amazon, Google, and Roku in that particular space.
Google's new Android Wear, TV and Auto ventures were front and center during Google I/O, and as the dust settles on all the biggest announcements to come out of the developer event, we're now starting to find out the more interesting details about what Google will be working on this year.
Google's I/O developers conference has commenced over at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, and during the opening keynote, the company introduced quite a few exciting new products. Among them, Android Auto - Google's own answer to Apple's CarPlay - and Android TV, which even in these early stages, looks a marked improvement on the failure that was Google TV. Below, we go hands-on with both, so if you want a first-hand look at what Google has been slaving over of late, be sure to join us after the break.
Clearly not dissuaded after the monumental flop that was Google TV, the company behind Android is once again set to enter the set-top fox fray, this time using the power of its smartphone and tablet operating system as a basis for its new kit.
A set of internal documents has revealed that Google is all set to make an assault on the soon-to-be bloated set-top TV device industry. The internal Google documents reveal that the Internet services company is deriving inspiration from existing products such as the Roku, Apple TV and Amazon's new Fire TV to introduce an intelligent set-top box known as Android TV that will hopefully serve as a powerful alternative to the existing solutions on the market.
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