Xbox One does not provide any built-in DVR capabilities
"Xbox One does not provide any built-in DVR capabilities, but on your Xbox One console you will be able to access and use your cable or satellite set-top box DVR service via HDMI pass-through," Microsoft explained to us.
Thanks to Xbox One's built-in hard drive and focus on live TV and media, it seems like it should have DVR capabilities. In fact, it will offer "game DVR" and let you share gameplay moments via the cloud. However, it will not offer any built-in TV DVR capabilities, a Microsoft spokesperson told us.
"Xbox One does not provide any built-in DVR capabilities, but on your Xbox One console you will be able to access and use your cable or satellite set-top box DVR service via HDMI pass-through," they explained.
In addition, to utilize the live TV features demoed by Microsoft, you'll need a "supported receiver device with HDMI output." And as expected, "to access live TV content from many of the top networks in the US, consumers still need a cable, telco or satellite subscription."
Microsoft wouldn't detail who they're partnering with for their TV efforts, other than to say that "we are working with leading providers of television services in the world, including cable networks and content distributors, to launch apps on Xbox One."
When quizzed about whether or not Microsoft would consider offering its own IPTV service for those that don't want to subscribe to cable or satellite TV, Microsoft deflected the question. "Our goal is to enable live TV through Xbox One in every way that it is delivered throughout the world, whether that's television service providers, over the air or over the Internet, or HDMI-in via a set top box." (emphasis ours) "The delivery of TV is complex and we are working through the many technologies and policies around the world to make live TV available where Xbox One is available."
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"Xbox One does not provide any built-in DVR capabilities, but on your Xbox One console you will be able to access and use your cable or satellite set-top box DVR service via HDMI pass-through," Microsoft explained to us.-
All-In-One... except....
To be fair though, most new TV's you can just plug in a stick or HDD and record directly to that... but still... All-In-One?-
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Yeah, the latest ones even have motion and voice control as well already (camera is an option or included, depending on the model).
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What TV is this and where can I buy one?
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Samsung, Panasonic (Mine from about 4 years ago does it), Technika (as linked above)... probably other brands as well like Sony, LG etc.
You can buy them from the shops or online.
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lol no they don't
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lol yes some do.
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Would you like to use my time machine to travel to the 21st century (my present)?
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that sucks
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So Microsoft can stream ads to you while you're watching TV, of course.
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what's that?
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you forgot 'be an Apple product'
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I wonder if the PS4 or the Xbox1 can play itunes movies or rips in the common mkv format.
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for sports time shifting isn't really a thing
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obviously I meant that literally no one in the world records sports events to be watched later but now my whole theory is shot to shit thanks
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well that settles it, live sports viewing is dead. I'll tell the guys at work they can cut this feature, it'll save some dev time for sure.
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Obviously not what I'm saying, but in terms of football matches in europe a lot of them are played when people are at work, or having dinner with family etc, or in a different time zone all together. For fans of global sports like soccer, recording matches is certainly a very common thing.
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I would call it very rare in the US. Obviously the time zone differences change the nature of that a bit in Europe. In general I suspect the type of people into these features are not the type of people who record sports. It's fundamentally at odds with a connected lifestyle. When threads come up here about cutting the cord invariably people ask 'what about sports' because they watch their sports live. They don't want NFL Game Rewind to watch all the games on Tuesday or later. If they're not watching the game on Sunday they're not watching it at all.
I can avoid movie spoilers fairly effectively. The results of my favorite team's last game? Not so much. I can't check any sports news, TV or website until I watch the game. I can't watch the Celtics game tonight if I haven't watched the Bruins game from last night, it'll be spoiled. I can't post on any of my favorite forums (no one spoilers sporting results here, as opposed to TV shows and movies). I can't talk to my friends who're fans without preceding every first contact with 'I haven't watched the game yet don't say anything ahhhhhh' (this now includes having to text all my friends and post status updates telling them not to text me or FB message me or any other type of message that would send a notification to my phone/tablet/PC).-
I think in terms of soccer the fandom is so diverse, you got the spanish, italian, english, german leagues that people follow and then on top your own national league and the champions league + international championships and qualifiers ending at literally a hundreds of matches per week. So the number of interesting league alone means you do not as easily come in contact with the results.
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There is no DVR functionality because they want you to purchase episodes through one of their partners.
I mean, DVR functionality would be obvious if you have a TV guide and have a focus on movies and TV, but there is not really a way to monetize that as easily as it is to suggest you purchase episode videos from one of their partners.-
hmm, it would take up space too.
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Because it's allowed in the HDMI spec. The signal can be decoded, modified, and encoded with HDCP, and rebroadcast. This isn't anything new. Google's been doing it for a few years with the GoogleTV boxes.
HDCP just flat out doesn't allow you to record the digital content.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hdcp
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That is the part that kind of concerns me. I don't think 500 GB is enough if games must be completely installed on the HDD vs. the minor installs that were necessary this gen for caching. Also, I'm not clear whether the game replays will be stored on the HDD and only shared via the cloud... or stored in the cloud all together. Hopefully they are stored in the cloud so as not to use up any of that precious HDD space.
I'm not even sure I'm sold on the this new xbox anyway, so perhaps it doesn't matter.
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it just gives you a handy way to voice control your cable box and lets you switch instantly from TV to games, etc. it's an overlay that gives you greater access. the ultimate goal is you always turn on your xbox and use that to do everything with your TV.
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It all depends on your cable/satellite provider. Dish, DirecTV, Tivo, and some cable providers provide ways to remotely control your DVR. If those APIs are open, or MS works out a way to get access, it could be possible to have it control your DVR to playback a specific show.
GoogleTV boxes have the capability to do this with the latest Dish network DVRs.
Even if not all boxes are supported you'll still be able to get the overlay stuff when playing back a recorded show. Since the xbox sits between your DVR and the TV you won't need to change inputs or anything if you're watching a recorded show and see that a friend sends you a request to play a game online.
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My TV will play back any video format you've ever heard of directly from a USB hard drive, or from a networked PC. It will also timeshift and record using the hard drive. The TV has Netflix and iPlayer and a dozen other video streaming service apps built in.
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Not everyone can afford TVs like that. Some people don't even know they exist, or don't think about it hard enough to buy one.
Also, if that one TV breaks, you loose every system and feature along with the TV. If one box breaks, you can fix or replace that individual box without having to pay for everything again. The same with the TV.
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Your Sky box will plug into the xbone and the xbone into your TV. You'll be able to use the xbone voice commands to change channel on Sky (the xbone has an IR output, so it can pretend to be a simple remote control). You'll still need the sky remote and UI to schedule recordings or browse your library of recorded shows.
It might be able to send commands down the HDMI cable to provide finer control of the STB, but that's very unclear.-
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