USB cable for Streaming Movies?

[Kaldrick]

Hry guys. New to Nvidia Shield. Was womdering if you can use the USB charging \ data cable and plug it into the usb port on the tv. Would this work? And do you need a special app to use it ?

 

[ryocoon]

I imagine that unless you are talking about reading some video files on your storage and playing those on the TV, no, it wouldn't work like that.

However, the Shield Portable does have a mini-HDMI port along with its micro-USB port. So you could just plug it into an HDMI port and you would have an instant mirror of your screen. In fact this is how you start up the "Console Mode" where you hook it to your TV and a charger, and you attach a Shield Wifi-Direct controller or a BT controller (or a wired USB controller I guess via a split charge/USB-OTG cable), and you have a nice way to stream your games from GRID, your comp, or native from the Shield to your big-screen TV.


TL;DR - No, wouldn't work. Don't need it though, you have an HDMI out on it.