Nvidia Shield Tv Youtube Hdr

Last week we received the new standard tubular design nvidia shield tv streaming media player based on the android tv os and what we found was a slick speedy performer with lots of apps supporting native 4k hdr content a fantastic remote great gaming responsiveness and even powerful 4k ai upscaling that can make lesser performing 4k ultra hdtvs perform better.

Nvidia shield tv youtube hdr. Netflix and disney i get a pop up in the top corner of my screen to say dolby vision atmos is active. Shield tv is a high performance streaming media player now up to 25 faster with the new tegra x1 processor. It also uses ai to upscale content to 4k like. The 150 version reviewed here is a tube of gray plastic measuring.

As nvidia closes in on the first birthday of the shield media streamer the company is promising 4k and hdr updates as part of its version 3 2 software upgrade. Netflix and youtube specifically. It s confusing that andriod s tv flagship device is lacking such an important feature. Nvidia has come out refusing to support vp9 for some unknown reason and shield owners have been waiting over a year for an update supporting youtube hdr but to no avail have users received it.

More on that in a bit. Because youtube is also in the process of switching to av1 which so far goes only up to 1080p and considering how adamant nvidia was for offering support for vp9 profile 2 i think what you re seeing is av1 clips in hdr. I m just getting to grips with my new lg cx and am trying to figure out exactly what the nvidia shield supports hdr for and what it doesn t.