Plug in the
USB drive to either of the two
USB 3.0 ports on the back of your
NVIDIA Shield. Click on Settings from the home screen. Click on
Storage & Reset.
What you'll need to get started:
- Your NVIDIA Shield TV.
- One of the recommended USB 3.0 flash drives or external hard drives.
- Three minutes of your time.
NVIDIA approved SanDisk Extreme Pro USB 3.1 Solid State Flash Drive. The SanDisk Extreme Pro is one of the few flash drives that NVIDIA specifically recommends for use with the NVIDIA Shield. The solid-state performance here will give you "extreme" read/write speeds, which is ideal for streaming media.
The difference between the two is in how they handle expandable storage. While the Shield TV has a microSD card slot, the Shield TV Pro has two USB slots. As such, you can expand storage on both devices, but the Shield TV's solution is a little prettier, while the Shield TV Pro's solution is a little more versatile.
How to update NVIDIA Shield TV
- From the home screen, scroll all the way down and choose Settings.
- Now scroll down to the About section.
- The first entry should be System Upgrade. Choose it.
- Now choose Check for Upgrade.
- If an upgrade is available, apply it.
To add a channel: From "Customize channels" at the bottom of the home screen, enable the app and channels to be displayed. Note, some apps have multiple channels. To move a channel: Navigate to the channel and press left until you see an arrow appear. Press Select to change ordering.
Setting up adoptable storage
- Plug in your USB drive to one of the USB ports on your Shield.
- Head into your Shield's Settings.
- Navigate to Storage & Reset.
- Select the external storage, which will be listed by its name.
- Select Erase and format as device storage.
- Confirm Erase and then OK to start the formatting process.
Plug in the
USB drive to either of the two
USB 3.0 ports on the back of your
NVIDIA Shield. Click on Settings from the home screen. Click on Storage & Reset.
What you'll need to get started:
- Your NVIDIA Shield TV.
- One of the recommended USB 3.0 flash drives or external hard drives.
- Three minutes of your time.
NVIDIA SHIELD TV offers abilities such as being able to act as a hub for your smart home, streaming PC games from your gaming PC to your TV and also act as a media centre for local and online media playback and streaming. NVIDIA SHIELD TV utilizes the power of the Tegra X1 chip and runs Android out of the box.
Specifications. The Shield utilizes Nvidia's Tegra X1 system-on-chip, based the ARM Cortex-A57 CPU and Nvidia's Maxwell microarchitecture GPU, with 3 GB of RAM. The device supports 4K resolution output at 60 FPS over an HDMI 2.0 output, with support for HEVC-encoded video.
Nvidia announced a new Shield TV that provides 4K HDR streaming, and boosts its existing gaming capabilities considerably. The update delivers 4K HDR streaming via sources like Netflix and Amazon Prime Video, as well as 4K movie support for Google Play content, and other sources.
How to Add More Storage Space to Android TV
- Plug your USB drive or external hard drive into your Android TV device.
- On the home screen, scroll down to Settings.
- Go to Storage and reset.
- Find your external USB drive and select it.
- Choose Set up as internal storage or Format as device storage (exact wording differs between devices).
SHIELD TV Product Specs
- Processor. NVIDIA® Tegra® X1+ processor with a 256-core NVIDIA GPU and 2 GB RAM.
- Video Features. 4K HDR Ready.
- Audio. Dolby Audio (Dolby Digital, Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby Atmos)
- Weight & Size. Weight: 4.83 oz / 137 g.
- Storage. 8GB*
- Wireless.
- Interfaces.
- Operating System.
Attaching a USB Drive or microSD Card
The SHIELD supports and will automatically mount drives formatted with the following common filesystems: exFAT (compatible with both Windows and OS X/macOS) HFS+ (standard for OS X) NTFS (common for Windows)Enable Settings > Device Preferences> Storage > Transfer files to a computer using USB. Once you connect your PC to SHIELD TV, you will see your SHIELD TV available under your file manager under "SHIELD Android TV."
One of the Nvidia Shield TV's nerdier virtues is its ability to record free broadcast TV from an antenna and stream it to all your other devices. When we're finished, you'll have a Plex DVR on your Nvidia Shield Android TV.
How Do I Share SHIELD TV Folders with a PC?
- Open the Google Play store and navigate to My Apps.
- Second, go to Settings > Storage & reset > Transfer files over network, to turn this feature on.
- You'll be presented with a user name and preset password that you can use on a networked PC to access SHIELD folders.
We've also learned, from another referenced listing, that the latest Nvidia Shield TV device will offer Bluetooth 5.0 and 802.11ac Wi-Fi (now known as Wi-Fi 5).
At three times the cost of entry-level 4K HDR streaming players, the Nvidia Shield (2019) isn't cheap, but it's an incredibly powerful streaming player thanks to its cutting-edge AI upscaling tech and its support for both HDR10 and Dolby Vision content.
Built on the powerful NVIDIA Maxwell architecture, Tegra X1 has 256 GPU cores, a 64-bit CPU, unbeatable 4K video capabilities, and more power-efficient performance than its predecessor.
You can buy the base NVIDIA Shield TV for just $179, which comes with just the console and the media remote.
For an app to be Android TV-compliant, it must support 32-bit. SHIELD TV Pro continues to support 64-bit for enthusiast users who want to sideload the rare instances when an app is 64-bit-only. Both models support all Android TV apps, Dolby Vision, Dolby Atmos and our new AI Upscaling feature.
