Has anyone else wondered why MS doesn't build in DVR into the Xbox One? I'd love to get rid of my current DVR.
Has anyone else wondered why MS doesn't build in DVR into the Xbox One? I'd love to get rid of my current DVR.
Here is the real correct answer why: It's not possible.
The Xbox One can only see the video stream that your cable box sends it. In order to capture DVR, your cable box would have to be set to the channel you want to DRV and it would have to be on. With Xbox One, you could never DVR anything and watch something different at the same time. You would have to watch whatever you were DVRing.
So, it's easier to just let your cable box handle the DVR, and have the Xbox ONE control the DVR on your cable box.
Same here.If you could control your DVR (set/view recordings) from Xbox One, I would be more than happy with just that functionality.
If you could control your DVR (set/view recordings) from Xbox One, I would be more than happy with just that functionality.
If it doesn't and requires a POS cable DVR I will be less than pleased.
Prepare to be disappointed.
Just recording for an hour at 8pm on channel 912 is simple childs play, Microsoft could do that easily. (assuming the Xbox one has the background console/disk performance to do that without affecting gaming).
The difficult bit is the detection of programs moving in time, getting extended, clash detection etc. The signalling for that is very varied, every different company has little differences, and multiply that internationally, and that's a major headache!
Especially when most of the high end DVRs these days have companion apps on iOS/Android, etc. All of which can get the service information from the box, and schedule a recording on the box. If I were Microsoft I wouldn't bother writing a DVR, i'd just make sure the xbox one was capable of running an app very similar to the Windows 8/Windows Phone 8 version. So Microsoft don't do anything at all, the TV companies write companion apps for xbox themselves.
Companion apps for what? Do you really think that many people out there have a Tivo that supports that type of technology? Think of how many Time Warner Cable and Cox customers out there are stuck with outdated DVRs that have no interesting in paying even more for a Tivo subscription.
Microsoft has the great Windows Media Center software that acts as a DVR on a PC and when you add a Ceton Infini PCIe card with a cable tv M card, you can record 4 (and soon 6) cable channels at a time, onto unlimited size hard disks.
We eliminated 3 cable tv boxes by installing the Windows Media Center and two Xboxs. We use the "media extender" function on the Xboxes to access all the media on the PC hard disk and the live cable tv channels from the Ceton card in the PC. This provides us with a whole house media center with access to tv, DVR, photos, and music collection on all our TVs! It's amazing. There are ZUNE like visuals, while listening to music too.
So it should be possible to build such a device, into the new Xbox One but they didn't?
I'm going to piggy back on your thread. I like a lot of things about the new Xbone but I'm not entirely sure if it's going to actually work for me. I have a media center and three 360s for all my TV needs, and no cable boxes. Since the Xbone isn't going to do any DVR stuff does that mean that it'd be pointless to even get an Xbone except for the gaming aspect? We use our 360s for media probably 80% of the time. Basically the way I understand it I'm not going to actually be able to use the Xbone for TV at all without scrapping my existing setup, and it would be more expensive and give me less functionality to actually switch to cable boxes.
So basically in a huge bout of irony, my fully MS TV setup cannot be used with an Xbone and is actually preventing me from getting one since I can't even feed my existing TV setup into it. This is depressing.