Nvidia Shield TV supports Xbox Series and PS5 controllers – Picture and sound – News

The various Nvidia Shield TV media players have received an update that includes support for the controllers of the next-gen consoles, namely the controller of Xbox Series X and S and the DualSense controller of the PlayStation 5.

The support of these controllers is part of Shield Experience Upgrade 8.2.2. This update allows the controller of the two next-gen consoles to be connected via bluetooth to the Shield TV devices, so that they can be used to play Android or GeForce NOW games.

In addition, this upgrade brings a number of other innovations, including support for Smart Home systems from Control4, so that the systems can be used to control a Shield TV device via the Control4 app. There is also support for the streaming service Discovery+ added. The Shield TV media players are still running on Android 9 from 2018.

Furthermore, this 27th update has made a number of improvements, including the ability to disable volume notifications and a bug that prevented Dolby Digital Plus surround from being possible in the Prime Video app.

The match frame rate option is still in beta, which means that it just needs to be manually enabled and isn’t working smoothly yet. This allows users to equate the output of the Shield TV with the frame rate and the dynamic range of the displayed content. Thus, the video being played is not converted and any judder of the image.

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