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    Shield Consoles

    Has anyone got one? Do they let you play games from your PC on your TV? Or just PC games on the GRID service?
    Last edited by LHutton; January 17th, 2016 at 09:06 AM.

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    It will stream games from your PC to your TV and from GRID, which is now called GeForce Now, to the TV.

    https://shield.nvidia.com/android-tv

    https://shield.nvidia.com/android-tv...roku-vs-firetv
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    In order to stream from my PC, does my PC need its own wireless, or can it stream via a wireless hub that it's wired to (Ethernet cable)?
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    My assumption is you just need to be on the same network. My suggestion is for you to read up on it and find out.
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    Try one of the links on this page.

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    Sorry - no matches. Please try some different terms.
    I've done some reading and it seems you can if you have an NVidia GTX GPU, 600 series or later.

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    Well it works.

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    I will be looking at a different living situation in 3-4 months, and I want to be able to stream TV-friendly PC games downstairs to a 4K TV. The newest revision of the Shield allows for higher resolution streaming. If I understand this correctly, as long as I have a badass router I should be able to stream PC games at 1440p no problem.

    Plus, the Shield having access to basically all good major streaming apps and being able to side-load Kodi is putting it at the top for me as a TV/movie streamer.

    Anyone have thoughts or experiences since?
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    I am way late to this party, but picked up a Shield TV after realizing that the Steam Link function built into my TV didn't play nice with DirectX 12 and there was no plan to update it.

    I kinda wish I'd gotten it in the first place rather than a Chromecast/Roku. Does everything the Roku does only way faster, has a decent graphics chip built in, handles streaming at 4K over Wifi perfectly, and has Chromecast built in.

    Nvidia's done a really crap job of advertising the thing, it's checking off a lot of boxes I've had for years.

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