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@myromes Everyone has a CEC cable box, right?
RT @VergeVideo: Xbox One, Revealed: Microsoft's event in under 4 minutes vrge.co/YXoSc6
Xbox One, Revealed: Microsoft's event in under 4 minutes
theverge.com — Microsoft has taken the wraps off its newest game console, the Xbox One. We've taken the highlights of the company's hour-long event and combined them into an action-packed, four minute Xbox extravaganza.
@bamcpherson Again, most innovative time in history.
@casualk_127 It was super great on Google TV too, right?
The most depressing part is that IR is the best solution available — putting a tuner or cable decoder in the One would be suicide.
@ryanbidan Yeah, CEC. Problem is most people have five year old cable boxes.
You will end up using your cable box UI, with the Xbox UI layered over it. The Xbox will not know what's on your DVR. It's separate.
Pretty clear from my Twitter replies that Microsoft very successfully convinced people that it actually integrated TV, when it… didn't.
@StephenPAdams I do. I understand that most people don't have cable boxes that support it.
And here it is, the Xbox One's IR Out connector. Sigh. pic.twitter.com/iqCGBFBDdO
reckless: And here it is, the Xbox One's ...
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