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Nvidia Discontinues Standard Shield TV Player, Pro Price Rises 50%
Nvidia has officially discontinued the standard Shield TV media player. The company will now sell only the Shield TV Pro model. The device's price has risen from 199 dollars (approximately 340 manats) to 299.99 dollars (approximately 510 manats). In other words, the model has become 100 dollars (170 manats), or approximately 50%, more expensive. The price change was made 7 years after the device went on sale.
Nvidia attributed the price increase to significant industry-wide increases in the cost of memory and other components. High demand for artificial intelligence systems is driving up the prices of these components. The tube-shaped standard model had been out of stock for months, and its production has now been stopped completely. Shield TV Pro is once again available at Best Buy stores.
Shield TV Pro went on sale in October 2019, and its hardware has not been updated since then. The model has a Tegra X1 chip and is equipped with a 256-core GPU. The GPU is the graphics processor responsible for processing images. The media player has 3 GB of RAM and 16 GB of internal storage.
The device supports 4K HDR and Dolby Vision video formats. Using artificial intelligence, it can upscale low-quality video to 4K at 60 frames per second. This helps make the video look clearer.
Despite its age, Shield TV Pro is still considered one of the most powerful Android TV media players. However, the device does not support the AV1 video format. Nvidia announced at the beginning of the year that it would continue providing software updates for Shield TV in the future.
The company's GeForce Now cloud gaming service works on computers, mobile devices and smart TVs. The service is also available on LG and Samsung TVs.
The component shortage is expected to continue until at least 2027. For this reason, a new Shield TV Pro model is unlikely to be released anytime soon. Google TV Streamer has risen by 50 dollars (85 manats) to 149 dollars (approximately 250 manats). Prices for Apple TV 4K and Roku devices have also increased this year. Meanwhile, a new Apple TV model is expected to be unveiled soon.