With this update to NVIDIA SHIELD TV, this all should become incredibly simple. You tend to need a PC that is always-on, so that your content is always available. The problem with it has always been either maintaining the connection from your PC to the web, so that you can get access to the content at any time. That’s the simplest way I can describe it. Plex is able to blast all of your content, via Plex apps, to TVs and phones and tablets and computers and all that. Not familiar with Plex? Think of it as the controlling software between all of the media you own (music, movies, pictures, etc.) that is stored on a PC and the rest of your connected life. Seriously, Plex media server on your SHIELD TV! That’s awesome, because well, Plex hasn’t always been the easiest thing to set up and maintain on a PC, so this should help ease a number of pain points. Plex, on its website, adds that it'll try to bring Server to other standalone boxes, but points out that Shield's powerful internals sets it apart from other gear in this class.Today, NVIDIA and Plex announced that in the next update to SHIELD TV, which will be v3.2, your Android TV-powered set top box can basically become a Plex box or Plex media server. Not to mention, of course, that the box can support 4K video at 60fps, making it ideal for users who want to future-proof their video libraries. If your library expands well beyond the Pro's 500GB of built-in storage, then you can expand it either on the network or via USB. When done, it'll appear as a tile on the Android TV home screen, a single button press away from launching you into one of the smartest media products available. The fact that Shield is already a consumer-ready device means that novice users should have almost no trouble getting Plex up and running. Naturally, while both the Shield and Shield Pro can do the business, it's the latter unit that'll really come into its own, thanks to its 500GB of built-in storage. Rather than having to tend to that media center machine you've got tucked under the stairs, the box under your TV can now handle it all, including remote play to mobile devices outside the home. Thanks to the power of NVIDIA's Shield TV, that's no longer the case, and Plex has revealed that the device can act as a dedicated, standalone Plex server. Everybody loves Plex, but it's always been a stumbling point for novice users that it still needs a dedicated, always-on PC to run the show.

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