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The top is mostly matte black plastic with a few angular textured lines, surrounding a large glossy black triangle that sits elevated to show the glowing green power light along its edge. It's a not-quite-rectangular box with slightly uneven lines the front and right panels are rectangles, the left and back panels are trapezoids, and the rectangular top panel is covered in triangles. The current Shield TV ($330.00 at Amazon) shares the angular aesthetic of the original, but in a slightly smaller and flatter 0.5-by-6.0-by-3.7-inch (HWD) package. The Shield Controller is $59.99 on its own, so we wholeheartedly recommend the $200 version of the Shield TV over the remote-only one. The $179.99 model includes a simple remote control, while the $199.99 version includes both the remote and Shield Controller gamepad, which is necessary for hands-free voice control with Google Assistant.
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The Shield TV is available in two versions, both of which have 16GB of storage (a higher capacity Shield TV Pro with a 500GB hard drive is no longer available). It's an expensive media streamer, but gamers will find its features and processing power very intriguing. Even better, it now has Google Assistant with support for hands-free voice commands if you get the Shield Controller. The current Shield TV costs just as much and has the same hardware, but Nvidia has had two years to build up its gaming features and really separate it from the competition. Nvidia's Android-based microconsole was incredibly powerful, and the first 4K-capable media streamer we tested, but it also was almost as expensive as a dedicated game console. We were tepid on the original Shield TV when it was released in 2015.