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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.
Why would I want to save TV video on a video game console?
Man. Can Microsoft actually deliver on anything anyone REALLY wants or needs from their OS?
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So, a feature that their customers may 'reasonably want' they have 0 time for but pushing out Ads is something they have a whole team developing...yeah, we know who the OS is designed for and its NOT the end-user.
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.
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These days I can do just about anything I need with KODI (formerly XBMC aka XBox Media Center) including record from tuners. No thanks to using a console for my media consumption.
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Couldn't a 3rd party create a DVR app that does that? Is such a thing even allowed on the xbone or can only MS do it?
I am still waiting for a correct EPG listing. Without it, no DVR can be exact.
Operating Systems, as much as they are supposed to just bootstrap your PC, are nonetheless expected to be like Santa Claus, bringing all kinds of goodies along for the ride. Apple has Garage Band, iLife (photos, messaging, facetime, a dictionary, etc.), and now iWord, all gratis. Linux distros come with billions of stuff... arcade-style games, office-like apps, math apps, astronomy apps, card games, puzzle games, wacky screensavers, and a lot of them actually work! There's hours of fun going through a new Linux distro, before you realize you're missing a proprietary 3-D driver.
But Microsoft has forgotten all this. Everything in Windows 10 is for THEIR benefit, not ours. They have Skype to Apple's facetime, but Skype is a tease to upgrade to a paid account. Same for Office. Instead, they've TAKEN AWAY the stuff people liked about Windows 7. Media Center. Solitaire. Plus! Minesweeper. TweakUI. Cool screensavers. Aero. Gadgets (ok, maybe they were a security mess - get rainmeter). The Start menu (ok, they put that one back). Even 3-D Pinball has been binned. Sure, go to our Store, they say. But that's just a tease for us to buy stuff. Hello? Santy Clause doesn't charge subscription fees, ask you for your credit card number, or force you to take lessons in touch-interfaces so you can jones for a tablet that nobody wants.
So, how bout it, Micro$osft, are you willing to throw in some candy in some near-future release? Or are you so stuck in this monetizing-everything shtick that you're determined to suck all the fun out of having a computer?
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This should have been in there from day one.
I want fewer devices to buy / install / maintain and there is no reason why the Xbox one can't be the one box I need for all my TV-related entertainment. It has the horsepower and it is basically a PC anyways.
You should have been on the ball getting the broadcasters, streamers like Netflix/HBO/Amazon, TV tuner, DVR, Windows Store for movie rentals etc. all together in a one stop shop on the Xbox.
For now I'll just settle for a UI that isn't clunky and slow like it is running in 1980.. seriously the Xbox one interface is terrible.
Yes, Microsoft is delivering on exactly what the MPAA and RIAA want!
I call them crime bosses because their counterparts in Canada, CRIA & MPA-C, have both been found breaking the law on multiple occasions.
Microsoft, Apple, Google, Amazon what's the difference? All steal money from devs and control with walled gardens.
Pretty sure we can blame Ballmer for Windows 8 (and Vista if I remember correctly). Now it's Nadella's fault Windows 10 is one big malware operation, positioning it as the PC version of Android instead of, you know, listening to his customers.
MS has always rolled over where entertainment IP was involved. They're so absolutely frightened of the MPAA/RIAA's shadow they'll do just about anything to avoid conflict.
Is it just my observation, or are there way too many stupid people in the world?
I absolutely love Windows Media Center on Windows 7.
I have a quad tuner Win7 Media Center machine with a dedicated remote, and it's difficult to beat the DVR experience. I'd take it over DirectTV and FiOS's DVRs any day. But as great as it was (and still is), it was a flop with consumers. The dedicated media center extender hardware products were killed off, and the MCE laptops from Dell and HP disappeared (built-in tuners, remotes, dedicated button for "TV"), and they eventually just killed WMC altogether. Too bad, I think it really worked well.
The XBOX has one thing going for it.. it's already located in family rumpas room and connected to a big display, but I don't think was going to be enough for it to get traction. In my experience trying to use an XBOX 360 to watch TV, the menus are a mess, and it's difficult to fight past the ads, the tiles, the recommendations, the apps, settings, required XBOX account sign-in, forced software updates and restarts that take 5 minutes.
Average consumers need a dedicated DVR, and I salute MS for recognizing that.
They don't so much fail as not really try. They act like they're not interested, and that's when they bother to have a product available.
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They try, but are incompetent. Their ego says that they're the best company in the world and can do anything, but their skill set is not up to the challenge. They don't innovate and haven't for a very long time, instead they copy other people after a new technology has been around awhile, showing up late to the game, and their ego says "we're Microsoft, we totally are going to own this market!" and then stumble.
The one thing they do know to do is to tie everything together. Every product must assist revenues in other Microsoft products (what's the point of having a a few monopolies if you can't leverage them?). Windows drives sales of phones, which drive sales on the app store, which generates advertising revenue, which helps sell Xbox, which helps sell Xbox subscriptions, which helps sell Windows, which drives sales of Office, which drives sales of certification classes, which drives sales of Windows. Microsoft does not make standalone products. Or at least that's the plan even if it breaks down a lot of places.