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Apple has officially announced their latest version of their Apple TV console . The new unit , unveiled beside the new iPhone X and the iPhone 8/8 Plus brings 4K and  HDR(Dolby HDR 10) support for all your streaming content as the previous generation model was slowly eclipsed of its shortcomings . The new unit , powered by Apple's new A10X Fusion chip , allows the unit to crunch high definition content , demanding online mobile games and content streaming to your UHD capable TV via Gigabit Ethernet  or dual band wifi - 2.4 Ghz /5Ghz . The unit  which comes with either 32GB or 64GB of onboard storage (the 64GB is beneficial if you plan on playing games on the unit ) is priced at $179 for the base configuration and $199 for the 64GB version . Source - Apple

Twitch - a popular video sharing site used by gamers has apparently been bought for $970 million by Amazon . The twitch service , which lets users share their gameplay or record video sessions is probably the second most popular game related website/service after Steam so the acquisition for that kind of money is quite reasonable . Amazon already owns cloud based services and has its "Fire" based smartphones and tablets  so the move was probably done in order to integrate the cloud services with the video streaming capabilities to further promote the Fire brand and Amazon's online service network in the long run . Google , who also wanted to buy the service for a whooping $1billion was apparently turned down due to concerns about anti-trust issues that can arise as they planned to integrate twitch to their already existing streaming site - YouTube .The Amazon purchase ,which is the largest purchase by the company since it accquired Zappos for $850 ,is said to spearhead ...

Just after the announcement of Nvidia's PC to SHIELD streaming service ,  NVIDIA anounced another innovation called - ShadowPlay. Shadowplay uses the Kepler GPU and records your greatest gaming moments in 1080P. It records the last 20 minutes in automatic mode and in manual mode you can record up to 4GB in Windows 7 or an unlimited file size in Windows 8. Jen-Hsun said what is really amazing is what happens when you combine both NVIDIA GameStream and ShadowPlay. You can now do one-click broadcasting and stream straight to twitch! NVIDIA is making it super easy for gamers to connect with the Twitch community and it works with every game. LegitReviews

This week the folks at NVIDIA have let it be known that they’ll be pushing the gaming industry forward with a technology called NVIDIA GameStream. Expanding on the PC streaming abilities of NVIDIA SHIELD, this technology will allow GeForce GTX graphics cards to work with SHIELD and large monitors as well as NVIDIA GRID. This streaming technology takes what the original NVIDIA SHIELD presentation pre-supposed and makes it real: streaming outside of the home network. image - Legitreviews http://goo.gl/ifWzZa This GameStream technology takes the NVIDIA SHIELD universe and expands it with extended streaming capabilities within NVIDIA GRID. Streaming from an NVIDIA GeForce GTX Titan graphics card-toting PC to an NVIDIA SHIELD device straight out to a 4K television is just one of the several abilities inherent in this setup. Another is streaming out to a massive television from the Android software built-in with NVIDIA SHIELD. Tegra 4 is being pushed today as a game console, as well...