What's up guys Chigz here from Chigz
Tech Reviews.
Today I've got my hands on the latest 2019 Nvidia Shield TV.
Now this is the newly designed cylinder shaped cheaper version of the shield TV
and it's currently priced at 149 now in this video I am going
to put this TV box through its paces and we are going to
find out exactly what this box is
capable of and how good it really is but
first of all inside the box you will
find a Quick Start Guide a power cable
and it's interesting to note that we
have a different type of power cable
it's a standard kettle lead and that is
a u.s. plug because I did pick this up
from Amazon u.s. so in my case I just
need one of these and I'm good to go
and you're also getting the amazing
chocolate bar remote control I have been
using the pro version of the Nvidia
shield TV and I have to say I have grown
very fond of this remote control I love
the shape of it I love the size of it
and I really like the backlighting and
the fact that you can control your
televisions volume and power with this
remote control so a very nice voice
remote included and last but certainly
not least the shield TV now the first
thing to know is how small and light
this is it's hard to believe how they
were able to fit the motherboard and the
internals in a shape like this so
definitely an awesome design now quickly
go through the ports
on this side you've got a power socket
and a Gigabit LAN and on the other side
you've got your HDMI out and just under
that you've got a micro SD card slot and
that is it there's no USB port at all so
for expansion you only have the option
for micro sd now I'll quickly compare
this to the full sized shield and this
is what you can expect in terms of size
so significantly smaller lighter but of
course less ports and the specifications
are slightly different so I put a specs
on the screen so you guys can have a
quick read so we have the NVIDIA Tegra
x1 plus CPU with 256 core Maxwell now
the GPU is slightly upgraded in this
Tegra x1 plus clocked at just over 1200
mega
so that is where their so-called 25%
upgrade comes from but in real time use
you can't see the difference the Tegra
x1 plus versus the Tegra x1 to me in
real time use they seem exactly the same
in operation now you've got two gigs of
ddr3 RAM and eight gigs of internal
storage now that is actually bad news it
means that you're not even going to have
eight gigs of RAM you're probably going
to have five gigs or six gigs due to the
system os taking up the space and the
positive note there is a microSD card
slot which you can convert to internal
storage and I do have a hundred and
twenty eight gigabyte card which I have
converted to internal storage and we'll
be checking that out in a bit now you
still have dual band Wi-Fi AC with dual
antennas and you've got the superfast
Wi-Fi you've got Bluetooth version five
Gigabit LAN micro sd card slot you've
got Android TV OS version nine
chromecast 4k built in this supports 4k
at 60 frames per second with HDR 10
you've got support for Dolby vision and
Dolby Atmos and this supports HDMI
version 2.0 B so without any further ado
I'm going to get this hooked up to my TV
and capture card and I'm going to give
you guys a full demonstration of what
the shield TV is capable of I'll be
right back so first of all I ran a boot
up speed test and this box took 40
seconds to fully load the home screen
from a cold start and here is the home
screen for this TV box and this is
Google's official licensed Android TV OS
version 9 so in the top left corner you
have your voice search icons and on the
far left you have your settings and your
local time thereafter the first row of
icons are your favorite apps and you can
customize the row to show your favorite
apps in the order you want if you click
on the apps icon it will take you to
your app drawer showing you all the
default apps that are available on the
system as standard and there are only a
few apps to begin with but you do have
access to the Google Play Store which is
the Android TV version so not the full
version so limited to Android TV apps
only but you can of course side load any
droid app you like and it works
absolutely fine
thereafter you have featured sections
for Netflix YouTube BBC I Google Play
movies and more and finally at the
bottom you have your customized channel
option where you can rearrange your
homescreen to suit you and you're
watching lifestyle now let's quickly
check out the main settings and go
straight to device preferences and
select system storage info now this box
has 8 gigs of internal storage from
which 5.9 gigs are usable and from that
you only have 3.9 gigs of free space I
have also inserted a hundred and twenty
eight gigabyte microSD card and I did
format that to internal storage so any
apps I'd download or install will
automatically get installed on the 128
gigabyte card
so the 3.9 gigs of free space I have
will no longer be touched everything
gets downloaded and installed on the SD
card so that's definitely a plus point
now the top feature in the new 2019
Nvidia shield TVs is of course AI
upscaling which basically upscales HD
video quality into 4k and the upscaling
mode can be activated at any time by
pressing the menu button and if we have
a quick look in CEC power control you
can see at the bottom that there is an
option to set up the remote control to
control your television so now we're
going to play 4k videos from the micro
SD card slot now there is no USB so I
have copied over my 4k samples to the SD
card so let's go ahead and play the
first files so first of all we are
testing the 4k high bitrate jellyfish
demo and this one is 160 megabits per
second and playback is smooth as
expected I also tested out the 180
megabits per second jellyfish demo and
that also played back very nice and
smooth and finally the 400 megabits per
second file also played backed very
smooth so high bitrate 4k files will
play absolutely fine on this box
so moving on now to the YouTube
performance test and you can stream a
maximum of 4k at 60 frames per second on
YouTube
be good but he always makes me call him
Freddie what you gonna do when we call
it no never
y'all will never do that again so that
resisted the liquids test and this box
supports how Netflix 4k HD are with
Dolby vision and Dolby Atmos support
your daughter Clint
and you can also stream up to 4k on
Amazon Prime video moving on now to the
gaming test beginning with asphalt
9
now let's talk about NVIDIA games in
this section you will have access to the
latest triple-a titles which you can
immediately purchase and start playing
but you also have a completely free
section with a whole bunch of games that
are ready to play you don't even have to
download the game the game actually
streams directly from the Nvidia server
and you're playing it remotely with your
game controller and this does support
resolutions up to 4k and third-party
game controllers are supported so you
can use your PlayStation 4 your Xbox one
or even the game sergey 4's game
controllers they all work absolutely
fine that's enough logo just keeping a
light boss yeah I don't need light need
you focused on the mission what mission
we're basically poking at that dog with
a stick
we have our orders we'll get survivors
in the city immediately radio command
from outside the storm wall
my head
you can also play games from your
existing steam library and again the
game gets downloaded remotely to Nvidia
server and it takes less than three
minutes to download a 50 gigabyte game
and the game is then streamed directly
to your screen for you to enjoy
wanna stop good grief
so for your advanced users DRM info
shows Google Widevine level 1 and here
is cpu-z where you can check out the
clock speeds and you can see this is
running the nvidia tegra there's no sign
of a+ it's a quad-core cpu which is
clocked at 2.0 one gigahertz furthermore
you do have Android version 9 and the
Box does not come rooted as standard
furthermore in the Wi-Fi speed test
we've got download speeds of 66 and
upload speeds of 18 megabits per second
so that brings us to a benchmark scores
beginning with Geekbench multi score of
3 7 2 5 and unfortunately the antutu
test was not compatible it would crash
during the 3d coastline test and
automatically exit itself to the home
screen and I tried many different
versions with the exact same result
nevertheless we're gonna write this TV
box based on the Geekbench scores so
here is my top performing android TV box
chart of 2019 showing you the latest TV
boxes and seeing how they compared with
each other and as you can see the shell
TV 2019 has taken position 4 on this
chart with a rating of 9.5 out of 10 now
you can view the full versions of all my
charts online at chick's tech comm and
read them at your leisure so there you
have it guys that was the new 2019
Nvidia shield TV so here are my thoughts
on this TV box you have a decent
performance excellent Wi-Fi speeds great
gaming performance with access to
hundreds of triple-a titles including a
free game streaming section which I did
demo earlier in the video and you can
also watch smooth high bitrate 4k videos
from the SD card slot now the brand new
feature AI image upscaling is actually
quite good it will upscale HD videos to
4k using AI technology and this feature
also works in Kodi Plex MX player and
many other third-party apps now the new
remote control is simply awesome great
responsive remote with all the
convenient buttons that you need you
also have a backlight and it's powered
by 2
double-a batteries now all the other
features are the same as the previous
generation Nvidia shield TV you have
chromecast 4k ge force now game stream
smooth 4k video playback from YouTube
Netflix Amazon Prime video Disney Plus
Google Play and the list goes on this
box also supports 4k gaming now Dolby
vision and Atmos is now supported in
Netflix Prime and Disney Plus bottom
line this TV box will give you a real 4k
streaming experience you have AI
upscaling Dolby vision Dolby Atmos and a
great gaming performance but
unfortunately according to the Geekbench
scores it's slightly less powerful than
the 2017 model and the stingy 2 gigs of
ram is probably the cause of that lower
performance and if he thought the RAM
was less well eight gigs of internal
storage feels like an insult the specs
seem quite shameful for a 20-19 product
not only that there is also no USB port
no optical out no game controller no
HDMI cable included in the box and the
SD card slot itself is too close to the
HDMI port which means you have to remove
the HDMI cable every time you want to
access that port which is definitely a
good way to wear out that HDMI port and
in the long run you could end up with a
damaged court it seems like Nvidia are
going backwards when it comes to the
Nvidia shield TV I was hoping for a
beast to be unleashed in the new 2019
shield TV model but instead we have been
given a similar product repackaged with
some software updates now I understand
the Tegra x1 plus has a slightly higher
clock speed in the GPU but in real time
usage I have not seen the benefit yet it
feels like exactly the same performance
so again I feel that the upgrade is not
worth the money if you already own a
previous generation Nvidia shield TV if
you are new to Nvidia shield TV and
you've never used one or you don't have
one then definitely pick one up but it
has to be the pro model I definitely
don't recommend this model
with that being said I will leave the
links in the description so you guys can
check this product out meanwhile thank
you so much for watching and I hope you
all have a brilliant day I'll see you
guys in the next one
