trappedslider
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If you can wait for awhile they are planning to make the XboxOne capable of being a DVR
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If you can wait for awhile they are planning to make the XboxOne capable of being a DVR
I Googled for ages on that last week, as it was one of my purchase considerations. Lots of articles saying its coming sometime; no detail whatsoever, let alone a date. It would essentially be that last step to making the Xbone the living room centre. Add in Cortana (which they say they're doing too) and you're in the future.
In other news, today I walked into the lounge and said "Xbox, Skype mum and dad". They were on the TV a few seconds later. Total Star Trek.
it ain't happening. MS is licensing another device as Xbox TV or something. it's reallu just a tuner. The xbox by itself cannot be a DVR for TV because it has no tuner and it could only record what comes through the HDMI input, which would mean one show at a time as it is playing through that port.
meanwhile Homeworx has a device for $45 on Amazon that is a HDMI tuner and you can add an external USB drive for use as a DVR. The XbOne's infrared blaster already supports it as a media device. Found an article on it, ordered it. now I just need a better HD anntenna setup and the hard-drive.
trappedslider
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the following news articles say hopefully before the end of the year
http://www.polygon.com/2015/5/6/8558881/report-xbox-one-to-get-tv-dvr-feature-this-year and so does http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/05/report-xbox-one-to-get-dvr-functionality-probably-this-year/
and most recent as of last week
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We'll see if that makes the cut. In any event, I needed to buy an HD antenna, and $45 for my tuner + DVR is a a pittance. Adding the $100 for a hard-drive, and I could just as easily attach it to the XbOne for more storage instead. I don't need to wait to see what MS might do, I've already got the parts.
I haven't really used the Guide on the Xbox. Never much used the one on my Uverse either. I always record my shows by the Search mechanism
Can you search for upcoming shows by voice?
miniaturehoarder
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Term became the go to for the system after Microsoft's boneheaded plans for the system when they were announcing it. Always online DRM did not go over so well.
Sounds like an Orwellian nightmare to have a machine in my house constantly monitoring what is said.
Oh, wait, you live in London don't you, guess that's par for the course.
Dunno.
The Xbox's control of a DVR is mostly over the channel changer and the Guide (which is really just a list screen of channels, which on select triggers a channel change). It can also issue stop/play/pause commands.
So the DVR side of the machine is out of reach because the Xbox can't "see" what's on your screen to navigate. So telling Xbox to "Record Star Trek", it wouldn't know how to walk inside the Uverse's interface to get to that part. All the tricks the Xbox has for controlling my DVR is because it is issue direct commands that can be fired blindly, regardless of what's on the current screen of the DVR.
This is where IF they came out with a Tuner for the xbox and the xbox acted as the DVR, they'd close that gap. But they'd also be stealing business from Comcast, AT&T and Tivo. I reckon that'll happen sometime when their interests collide.
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