Sure, you don't get the huge internal storage, but you can add your own external hard drive and use the TV Pro for your gaming, movie nights, and much more. The new NVIDIA Shield TV Pro (2019) is the big brother in the Android TV streaming arena and one that packs quite a wallop.

You'll just want to take advantage of the Plex Media Server app if you want to manage and enjoy the library. There aren't a lot of difficult steps needed to set up, as the hard drive with the Shield TV Pro is practically a plug-and-play situation for your media. With an external drive like the Seagate Portable Hard Drive (5TB) (opens in new tab), you'll be able to load up just about anything onto the Shield TV Pro and access it with ease. Thankfully, NVIDIA has included two USB 3.0 ports, allowing you to hook up an external hard drive and either play your favorite games or watch some content. On the old TV Pro, NVIDIA packed a 500GB hard drive into the unit, but that has been removed and replaced with just 16GB of onboard storage. NVIDIA also included the Plex Media Server app pre-installed, which lets you keep your media library instantly accessible on the Shield, and streamable to other devices (phones, tablets, video game consoles, etc.) running the Plex app.Īt just $50 more than the Shield TV (2019), one way that NVIDIA cut down on cost is with the internal storage. Let's say you have a massive library of movies, TV shows, and music - with the NVIDIA Shield TV Pro, you could load all that great stuff on and enjoy it using Plex, an outstanding media player. Source: Android Central (Image credit: Source: Android Central)Īs popular as media streaming has become there's still something to be said for the simplicity of offline content.

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