Coinciding with the slew of bulletins popping out of Google I/O 2016 at the moment, NVIDIA has taken the chance to tease some huge enhancements headed to the Shield Android TV in its subsequent software program replace — and there is a lot to look ahead to.
One of many hallmark options of the NVIDIA Defend Android TV when it launched in 2015 was its help for 4K content material, and NVIDIA is about to bolster that ecosystem additional. Although the corporate is mum on a launch timeframe aside from “quickly,” NVIDIA says that software program replace three.2 will convey a model new VUDU app with 4K streaming help.
YouTube can also be getting a bump up in high quality with on the Defend Android TV with help for 4K at 60 frames per second. All of that is along with the spate of latest Android TV apps introduced throughout Google I/O, together with Spotify, Deezer, NPR and extra.
Should you occur to have a more moderen TV that helps excessive dynamic vary (HDR) content material, there’s some excellent news on the horizon for you as properly. The subsequent replace will embrace help for streaming HDR content material from Netflix. On prime of that, NVIDIA’s GameStream platform will help HDR streaming when you occur to have a PC packing one of many firm’s new Pascal-based GPUs.
Lastly, though Defend Android TV house owners nonetheless have a bit longer to attend for the three.2 replace, you will not have to attend for much longer to take a look at some new video games. Stealth-action title Shadwen is now out there by way of GeForce Now, whereas Homefront: The Revolution will hit the service quickly. In the meantime, Resident Evil 5 will hit Google Play as a Defend Android TV unique on Might 19 for a launch worth of $10 (frequently $15).
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