This is how YOUR cable box or sat will work on the xbox one and with a little more lag (channel changes can be slower to make sure it gets the commands). It works and for the most part, it works good but, you still deal with the cable box overlays, it makes it ugly and can be really slow. This is almost like people using a cable box with Windows Media Center and IR blasters with a cablebox. Then you have the overlays (where your cable box shows the channel your on and the info about the show when you put on a channel) that you will see on the Xbox One. Normally this takes at at least 2 seconds on a cable box and on a sat dish, closer to 3-4 seconds (longer when a DVR is involved). Go to your current DVR/Cable box, Type in a 3-4 number channel and count the time that it takes to change the channel before the channel is on and viewable. The Xbox one will not have any internal TV tuners, so you would need to add them if they even supported that. In the real world with using your DVR/Cable box or sat box, it will be nothing like this. When they showed it in the preview(at the press statement) channel changes were instant with no lag. The only problem with Xbox One's TV feature is it needs you to connect a cable box or sat box to it via HDMi. I think the TV integration idea they have is a good one, but limiting it to cable and TV subscribers instead of making it a solution for good ole antenna users is a mistake, but at least this quote intimates that they are working on something. To me that sounds like, although at launch the Xbox One won't have Windows Media Center extender capabilities like the 360 does (still a mistake, in my opinion), that it might have some similar features in the future that allow you to watch OTA digital television via your Xbox One (which would be awesome). So it's honest criticism and you'd love to have the new launch be everything that you had before and more, but unfortunately it's an untenable. at launch where you have HDMI-in scenarios, so you'll say 'hey, what if I have a terrestrial over the air?' We won't have a solution for that right away, but we still sell it as part of the vision. " We talk a lot about TV and that's only going to work basically in Japan and the U.S. I found this report of an interview with Microsoft's Director of Product Planning Albert Penello in which he said,
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