We're not talking about Phantom Dust.
So I bought the OTA adapter for nothing?
Can i still stream cable through xbox'one?
Pretty sure you can still watch OTA TV with it...
why'd you buy it before the functionality was ready?I can watch OTA directly through my television. The only reason I purchased it was the promise of DVR functionality 'soon' after its announcement back in August.
Cool thanks thought it was a cool feature.Seems to just work. The bad part is that to play games on it, you'll probably have the TV in "game mode" or something similar, making the TV signal look ugly as heck without any processing (at least on my Samsung TV). I really can't be bothered to switch everything around the entire time so I don't use this feature on my Xbox One.
why'd you buy it before the functionality was ready?
For these people that were banking on this:
I would recommend a Tablo OTA + Roku 3/4 or Fire TV.
It's not as good as Microsoft's plan (there's a $5/month subscription fee) but it works really well. And maybe Tablo will put an Xbox app out now that they know they won't have to compete with Microsoft.
Seems to just work. The bad part is that to play games on it, you'll probably have the TV in "game mode" or something similar, making the TV signal look ugly as heck without any processing (at least on my Samsung TV). I really can't be bothered to switch everything around the entire time so I don't use this feature on my Xbox One.
Because it at least provided me the ability to pause/rewind 30 minutes in the mean time, which was suffice until the promised DVR functionality released 'soon after.'
You should always watch television/dvd/bluray/whatever through game mode. Post processing on tvs is almost always hot garbage and if you properly calibrate your television you are getting a better and more accurate picture
A year ago this woulda been a big deal to me. But the cable companies (TWC for me) have decent apps with on demand service. I'm guessing the Microsoft internal futurist saw the need being handled by others in time.
Well given that the feature was only going to be available to people with USB tuners, which is likely a very small number of people, I can kind of see why they haven't continued.
I imagine they would have just gotten a torrent of abuse over why they wouldn't let video capture over HDMi happen.
What does this even mean?
Because they can't...that isn't their fault...cable boxes run hdmi with a hdcp encrypted transfer. It would be illegal for them to do anything other than just transport and display that stream
It means "turns out the TV features in the Xbox One are barely used so we're turning our focus to games and things people actually care about."
Bought an xbox one for kinect. Dead. Bought an original xbox one usb tv tuner. Provider changed frequencies, xbox not. Dead. Hoped for tv dvr. Dead. Should have bought something else from the beginning.
Yes, but to have TiVo, you either buy the thing with full service or pay a monthly service fee. Both of them would cost much more than an Xbox One, and the TiVo doesn't play current gen video games.you can get a TiVo specially made for OTA stuff FYI
Sucks cuz I would have used it but whatever, I probably watch Netflix more than anything.
Focus on gaming. It's pretty cut and dry.
Yes, but to have TiVo, you either buy the thing with full service or pay a monthly service fee. Both of them would cost much more than an Xbox One, and the TiVo doesn't play current gen video games.
You can see how the Xbox One with that functionality would be advantageous, yes?
I'm disappointed but I don't currently have my XBO hooked into my OTA box. I have my wife's old TiVo for that. But I would have happily put an Xbox One on that TV. Sell our Apple TV to cover some of the costs or move it to a different TV. Oh well, maybe with Scorpio...
My bad. I'm too wired to expect snark on the internet. Sorry about that.I was just making a suggesting really not trying to imply it was a better solution, just throwing it out there
Cause I like to be torn down . No, don't know. I am from germany and it was the first thing that came to my mind.Super OT: Your user name. Why.
The people doing TV features aren't making games, the two are not mutually exclusive so no it's not cut and dry.
I suspect this was cost driven, if they remove the pass-through they can probably shave a few bucks off the manufacturing cost, if they nuke the existing functionality altogether they can remove one SoC to bring it down even further.
Focus on gaming and then why those rumoured XBO sticks?
say goodbye to HDMI-in
My bad. I'm too wired to expect snark on the internet. Sorry about that.
Media streaming is where its at ie Netflix etc.
They should focus on these first (and gaming primarily of course)
edit: wait, the DVR functionality was only going to work with an OTA antenna? I was under the impression that it could record whatever TV you had been piping through...
Because we couldn't have Halo, Gears and Forza without putting TV DVR on hold?
I was looking forward to this. I bought the tv tuner but thankfully not an external drive yet.