What is the Nexus Player?
"Nexus Player is a home media player for streaming Netflix and playing games on your TV"
Have
you heard? The DVD player is dead. The Blu-ray player is dead too.
Physical media - its days are numbered and its influence on technology
trends is certainly weakening. The Nexus Player is the latest candidate
to stake a claim on this post-disc world.It's a puck-shaped device that plugs into your TV via HDMI and it's small - measuring just 120x120x 20mm. It's dinkier than a DVD, though substantially thicker.
Nexus Player specs
Asus has built the 235g Nexus Player on top of a 1.8GHz quad core Intel Atom chip so it's got plenty of grunt for a hockey puck, and there's a separate graphics chip to power games and HD video in the shape of an Imagination PowerVR Series 6 GPU.
What else can the Nexus Player do?
While the Nexus Player runs on Lollipop, the Android TV skin is designed especially for use on a big screen and to be explored using the remote control.On the homescreen you'll have instant access to all of the Google Play content you may have purchased, as well as any apps and games you've bought
Is the Nexus Player a games console?
The Nexus Player is and isn't a console, depending on how you look at it. Certainly, the Nexus Player doesn't have the chops to run 3D games on the same scale as the PS4 or Xbox One. But it can certainly handle any game currently on the Play Store and likely anything that'll come out in the next few years.
