

I’ll admit it, the Shield TV is an expensive media streamer. Many people (including me) got the 16 GB version of the Shield TV to save money up front. Thankfully, the Shield TV still has two perfectly good USB 3.0 ports just begging to be used. So if you’ve been used to using an SD card to bolster the storage of your Shield TV, you’ve going to have to look for other options. The big casualty for the NVIDIA Shield TV is the SD card slot.

Usually, not everything is going to fit into that smaller package.

This is true of the 2017 version of the NVIDIA Shield TV. The 2nd version of any gaming console normally takes everything that worked in the first version and shoves it into a smaller package. The Verdict Why do you need an NVIDIA Shield TV external storage device
