NVIDIA Shield TV boxes can act as Plex Servers

Plex, the media serving software that can beam music, movies and more to any screen you have, is setting up shop with NVIDIA and its Shield TV product.Thanks to the Shield TV’s Tegra X1 processor, though, it’s capable of far more than what the Android TV app it’s running can do. For example, multiple-stream, hardware-accelerated transcoding will definitely help smooth out the picture ...

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NVIDIA unveils Tegra X1, a “mobile superchip” with astonishing power

As we demand more and more features from the smartphones, tablets, and wearables that hit the market, one thing is consistent: everything requires more power. And that power comes from the chips inside these products, the latest of which is the NVIDIA Tegra X1, seemingly one of the best to come out thus far. NVIDIA has just taken the wraps off of the product at a press event in Las Vegas for CES, so let’s have ourselves a look.The chip is meant as a successor to last year’s Tegra K1, which also used CES as a launchpad. It features a 256-core Maxwell-based GPU as well as an ...

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