Between the overpriced graphics cards and the repeated announcements around artificial intelligence, one could think that Nvidia had other things to do than pamper a TV box released more than ten years ago. Well no. The manufacturer has just deployed the “Shield Experience Upgrade 9.2.4” update for the Shield and Shield Pro.
A nice update
On the program: security fixes (updated to January 2026) and resolution of a series of bugs that are not exactly glamorous but very real. Disney+ which refused to play certain content, capricious third-party remote controls after the standby, unexpected Bluetooth disconnections, crashes in the settings… The cleaning has been done. It’s not a face-changing update, but it sends a clear message: the Shield is not abandoned. Which, in the Android ecosystem, is not trivial. At a time when many devices lost all tracking after two or three years, seeing a 2015 model still looking good is almost an exception.
Andrew Bell, senior vice president of hardware engineering at Nvidia, is adamant that support is not going to stop. soon “. And he even slips into an interview with ArsTechnica that the teams have “ played with new concepts » around the Shield. Enough to nourish the hopes of a successor. One of the most revealing episodes of Nvidia’s commitment to Shield TV concerns the famous flaw in the Tegra
Many companies would have abandoned these older generations. Nvidia preferred to invest 18 months to rebuild a complete security stack. In 2025, a patch quietly mentioned a ” security improvement for 4K DRM playback “. Behind this innocuous line hid substantial technical work.
As for whether a new model is in the pipeline, nothing has been officially announced. But Nvidia is already talking about future support for codecs like AV1, HDR10+ or more recent Dolby Vision profiles. And perhaps, by the way, a remote control with a slightly less obtrusive Netflix button. “ We talk about it all the time, I would love to », concludes Andrew Bell about a future Shield.
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