The official first-party remote control designed for NVIDIA’s PROTECT Android TELEVISION set-top container is great. By using more or less exactly the same mini-remote style as the Nexus Player, Fireplace TV Roku, and a variety of similar loading boxes, yet it’s made from metal, the particular buttons are usually backlit, it offers a pre-installed headphone jack port for personal listening, and yes it recharges with a MicroUSB interface. The only issue is that in contrast to the PROTECT controller, keep in mind that come in the particular $ 200 package deal – you need to buy this separately for any hefty $ 60. But not any longer.


Beginning today, -NVIDIA is managing a promotion that will bundles a totally free remote along with the PROTECT, so you have the Android TELEVISION box, the particular (excellent) Xbox-style controller, as well as the smaller remote control all designed for $ 200. Given that the PROTECT was already a simple winner within the admittedly brief field associated with Android TELEVISION hardware, this particular only sweetens the deal. Certain, you manage every aspect of the particular SHIELD with all the bundled video game controller, however the remote is simply sleeker. Chillier. An elegant remote device for a a lot more civilized family room. And you can conceal the game control under the ottoman when you’re not really using it.


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At the moment this looks like you should purchase the PROTECT directly from NVIDIA’s online store to get the lower price, though another retailers might join in later on. There’s no reference to an termination date, even though it is a “limited time” advertising. Note that oddly, NVIDIA’s web site doesn’t appear to be selling the particular SHIELD Professional (with the 500GB difficult drive) right now.



Oh, and all sorts of this is apparently in special event of this nice commercial that will NVIDIA produced, in which a guy on a family room set might or might not have been fallen from a freight plane. Could it be real? Could it be a visual demonstration through NVIDIA? Now i am no specialist, but it appears to be a combination of the studio take (with digital camera angles which are impossible, as you don’t find any documenting hardware within the video) plus an elaborate brace dropped from the plane accompanied by a pro skydiver. But artificial or not, exactly who cares? You obtain a free remote control either way.