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Watching TV With Xbox One (Giant Bomb Quick Look)
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BLACK AMERICAN PSYCHO
Junior Member
voice commands need some work :lol
Askherserenity
Member
This has me confused as well. I posted some of my thoughts in the comments section of the video already but man, it's kind of shocking how messed up it is.
None of the streams or videos I've watched say otherwise either.
Jeff said the day after the podcast they did this vid and everything broke.
BoboBrazil
Member
Hmm? They had a lot of negative stuff to say about using it for TV.
I think they were comparing it the first kinect.
Jeff said the televison stuff needed work and went into some detail about it in the bombcast. It's the general Kinect voice stuff they said was alright.
You and I have a different definition of the word "good" it seems.
Iacobellis
Junior Member
I love me some Alexis Texas!
Askherserenity
Member
Guys, he has to be joking.
They said it worked great except for TV, which is what this video shows.
Texas Presley is better and underrated.
FreddieQuell
Member
This is a trainwreck. lolol
maquiladora
Member
I was very confused watching the train wreck that was the Polygon stream, after their 8/10.
I said it in the main GB thread. voice recognition here is shit and unreliable.
Perhaps even worse, the main xbox one guide takes up the entire screen and blocks the whole image. Most cable boxes put the TV image in a corner and/or format the guide to allow you to watch the show while browsing. this is a full screen guide that blinds you to what you’re watching. who would use this? and it’s potentially up longer than other guides because it’s slower to navigate with voice controls than your existing old cable box with a remote…
and, finally, there are serious framerate drops on the postage stamp sized TV video snapped to the side of the screen.
Did everything just break in the last 24 hours or were reviewers extra gentle on these features? because this feature is not worth saddling the xbone with extra cost. the implementation is outright poor.
Perhaps even worse, the main xbox one guide takes up the entire screen and blocks the whole image. Most cable boxes put the TV image in a corner and/or format the guide to allow you to watch the show while browsing. this is a full screen guide that blinds you to what you’re watching. who would use this? and it’s potentially up longer than other guides because it’s slower to navigate with voice controls than your existing old cable box with a remote…
and, finally, there are serious framerate drops on the postage stamp sized TV video snapped to the side of the screen.
Did everything just break in the last 24 hours or were reviewers extra gentle on these features? because this feature is not worth saddling the xbone with extra cost. the implementation is outright poor.
NoirVisage
Banned
that's amazing.
Yeah they were high on it but by the end of the stream they were starting to shit on it and they were playing games. Just please take this shit out of the box .
Jeff said on the Mixlr stream today that before this was recorded he had very few issues with it, but it all broke while doing this... he seemed to have a very different view of Kinect this morning than he did on the bombcast... seems to be where the varied opinions come from, some people just aren't having issues until they really dig into it some more.
Uncle Rupee
Banned
I too would like to type with boxing gloves on.
Uno Venova
Banned
If voice control is that unreliable, it's pointless. Most will just go back to using pads.
Iacobellis
Junior Member
So a few reviews said the picture quality is degraded when you run it through Xbox. Is this an example of that?
The ad is very blurry and the whole picture seems soft apart from the XBox UI.
If this is due to the hardware, then Microsoft set a goal too high for a game console in 2013.
Revolutionary
Member
Never knew Brazzers had their own channel.
AyaisMUsikWhore
Member
So it has its on built in popular channels it response to. Any outside that, it basically shrugs.
But all that saying twice, three times etc, I would of just used the controller and call it a day. Moral of the story, controlling with your voice isn't ready yet and buttons are still 100% more effective.
For this, the Xbox would of been day one for me. What's the point if I can't DVR? This is the problem with the console. All that TV functionality but what you really need it for, it doesn't deliver. I'm never home when my TV shows are on.
But all that saying twice, three times etc, I would of just used the controller and call it a day. Moral of the story, controlling with your voice isn't ready yet and buttons are still 100% more effective.
For this, the Xbox would of been day one for me. What's the point if I can't DVR? This is the problem with the console. All that TV functionality but what you really need it for, it doesn't deliver. I'm never home when my TV shows are on.
I don't think it's possible for my Comcast cable quality to get any worse so i am not worried.So a few reviews said the picture quality is degraded when you run it through Xbox. Is this an example of that?
The ad is very blurry and the whole picture seems soft apart from the XBox UI.
Fucking HD signal is terrible here
BendingUnit
Banned
Uh the GB crew was not getting payed off. If they were they wouldn't have posted this. Sheesh.
I'm sat hear at 1.37am in the UK, can you imagine navigating the TV using voice controls, you'd wake-up the whole family, and become so frustrated you'd struggle to get to sleep!
Sorry, but watching TV is meant to be relaxing, especially late night viewing, this just seems like it'd wind you up.
Sorry, but watching TV is meant to be relaxing, especially late night viewing, this just seems like it'd wind you up.
Askherserenity
Member
Yup. Watch the Polygon stream for a perfect example of this.
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Deleted member 57681
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That fucking Catwoman scene lol
Looks pretty useless to everyone.