PRESS RELEASE
The next update for all SHIELD TV owners is just around the corner!
Available from today, SHIELD TV users will be able to enjoy new features delivered with SHIELD Experience Upgrade 5.2.
This software brings improvements and new features as well as updates from our partner Plex including Live TV, DVR and the ability to write to Network Attached Storage devices (NAS).
Plex in combination with SHIELD TV is the perfect all-in-one media powerhouse: All your movie, TV show, music, and photo collections, locally stored, organized, and elegantly displayed on the big screen as well as seamlessly streamed to other screens through your SHIELD TV.
SHIELD TV is the only device that is both a Plex client and media server – making it the only low power solution capable of serving your media, watching live TV, scheduling a recording, playing that recording back locally, and serving recordings to be played on various devices anywhere you can get an internet signal.
The premium service Plex Pass also brings with it a host of unique features including Plex Cloud, offline playback, parental controls, automatic photo upload from mobile devices as well as automatic AI-driven photo-tagging and more!
You’ll find some more information in our blog post: http://shield.nvidia.co.uk/blog/cut-the-cord-with-plex-uk
But there’s more: To celebrate this release, for a limited time, new SHIELD TV purchases will come with a free six month Plex Pass subscription (£23.94 value): https://www.nvidia.co.uk/shield/Plex-app-promo/.
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Additional information on Plex, as well as new features and functionality enabled by the SHIELD Experience Upgrade 5.2.:
- Write to Network Storage (NAS)
SHIELD now supports write to Network Storage on Plex, allowing customers to Record TV shows and movies directly to their network attached storage (NAS) via Plex. SHIELD owners can continue to write to local storage, adopted storage and external storage drives.
- Watch and Record Live TV with Plex
Now with SHIELD TV and a Plex Pass, cord cutters can watch and record over-the-air broadcast TV on SHIELD in up to 1080 resolution with 5.1 surround sound.
SHIELD with Plex is a one-of-a-kind DVR solution. With this release, SHIELD becomes:
- The first streaming media player to support Plex Live TV
- Only streaming media player able to browse and record shows from a beautiful, “10 foot” user interface
And since SHIELD is the industry’s only all-in-one Plex client and server device, you can DVR directly to SHIELD and then stream these shows to any device, anywhere in the world, all with a fraction of the power consumption and cost of other media server options. Please note that the DVR and Live-TV functionality will be rolled out in different EU countries over the next weeks starting with UK, France, Germany, Spain and Italy.
- Connect a USB Tuner for Plex Live TV
NVIDIA and Plex worked together to support USB tuners on SHIELD – including support for the dual WinTV USB tuner from Hauppauge.
- Additional Upgrades
Additional updates in this release include network storage directory and connectivity enhancements, Wi-Fi performance improvements, and experience enhancements for SHIELD remote and SHIELD controller.
As you know, we keep improving SHIELD since launch – not only for owners of SHIELD (2017) but also for existing SHIELD users. All the updates mentioned above will be rolled out to everyone.
SHIELD Experience Upgrade 5.2 will release to customers on a rolling basis over the coming weeks starting today.
SHIELD Preview Program members will be the first to receive the upgrade. If you haven’t done so, please sign-in to get the latest.
