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Microsoft Isn't Adding a TV DVR Feature To Xbox One Anymore (theverge.com)
The much-anticipated TV DVR feature isn't coming to Xbox One ... at least not in the immediate future. The company has confirmed to The Verge that it has put the plans to add this functionality to its current generation gaming console on hold. From the report: Microsoft had originally planned to let Xbox One users schedule recordings on the go, and stream or download shows to mobile devices and other Windows 10 PCs. The DVR feature would have only been limited to free-to-air TV, and Microsoft had released digital TV tuners in Europe and the US that would have supported it. After Microsoft killed off Windows Media Center in Windows 10, the company still doesn't have a viable alternative.
Man. Can Microsoft actually deliver on anything anyone REALLY wants or needs from their OS?
Chas - The one, the only.
THANK GOD!!!
Microsoft over the past 15 years has evolved from an OS that runs applications to a rats nest of "do everything forever." its a web browser, an app store, a media center, an XBOX, some kind of amorphous social platform, and occasionally an office and development workstation. But it all comes from Microsoft, a company thats historically maintained an ethos of crippling software like email clients and spreadsheets that run on its OS. Its a rock and a hard place for sure because if you insist on doing everything, you rarely do anything.
Looking at BSD and Linux, these projects are just OS, period. GNU offers some very stable tools to manage the OS, but you're by no means required to use them (some distros dont include them.) If you want a media center, MPD has an entire team of people working on making that a thing you can do. some might work on netbsd, but netBSD isnt about to attempt the backflips necessary to show up ready-to-go as a media server for everyone. BSD and Linux are more centric to a users specific needs not because they try to be the wal-mart of personal computing tasks, but because they foster a productive and well-running sandbox in which creative teams can come up with applications that solve problems and do things people are trying to do on their terms.
Good people go to bed earlier.
I *had* a TV
*had* a **DVR**, not a TV.
Read before hitting submit next time, dumbass.
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