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Xbox One Will Play Media from USB Devices, DLNA Servers
New submitter Mauro sends word that Microsoft has announced upcoming Xbox One support for streaming media both from attached USB devices, such as flash drives, and DLNA media servers. Compatibility with a broad list of media formats will be added by the end of the year, including .MKV files. They also followed up last week's announcement of a digital TV tuner with an interesting twist: it will be able to stream broadcasts over a local network to devices running the Smartglass app, which is available on Windows, Android, and iOS.
Are you telling me that Microsoft shipped the XBone without the ability to read USB drives?
That they're announcing support for 10+ year old media and we're supposed to be impressed? Something you can buy next to bubble gum in the express checkout at the Wal Mart? Wow, that's some innovating there.
The XBox 360 had memory cards, and it's not like Microsoft doesn't have access to the technology to do this trivially. As in so blindingly trivial they'd have had to take steps to not support it.
I view this announcement with the same incredulity as if Ford had just announced they were adding a horn to this year's car -- because I find it unbelievable that they didn't build this in right away.
Yeah, I'm sure glad I've got my XBox 360, the XBone continues to look like a turd. I'm really gonna have to buy a spare 360, my wife likes some of the Kinect games, and every single time Microsoft tells me about this thing, I want it less than before.
Way to go Microsoft, you implemented accessing an FAT file system over USB.
Except for the USB part, using Microsoft's own documentation I wrote code to directly read from a FAT filesystem 20 years ago.
Un-frickin-believable. What idiots were in charge of this product again?
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