Sorry, but the reality is that Comcast is the largest cable provider in the country. Do you expect to have cable content delivery with out cable companies?
Who said you have to use modern (metro)? the start screen is just an app launcher/search tool....remove all metro apps and do not install any metro apps and you are not using the metro UI
Microsoft already has a deal with Comcast to deliver their content over-the-top into the xbox so this device can replace a DVR from comcast and provide a better app ecosystem for entertainment....cable operators will jump all over this kind of setup because it will make it cheaper for them to deliver and support their content and they get the best of both worlds...you subscribe to fast internet service and you subscript to their cable offerings.
that has nothing to do with the Apple TV or the app or Apple's ability to cut the right deal....MLB has contracts with local networks and they avoid competing with them by blacking out the game for local markets.
The built in Apps, unless it is a google TV, are dead ends. The services you want will take for ever yo get there and updates will never happen. Set-top boxes (Google TV, Apple TV, Boxee, Roku and this Xbox TV device) get updates, have a much larger ecosystem and if tehy do it right (like Google TV) they do HDMI pass-through so you can use the device's UI as an overlay and then TV becomes an app on the device (or in the case of comcast, XBox provides you the cable service.
I think Cable companies will look to making over the top streams available for multiple set-top devices and then they can get out of the cablebox game and people can BYOD to their service.
why would it be confusing? Xbox TV....all the over-the-top services of the Xbox, none of the games....99 bucks to compete with the Google TV and Apple TV.
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They own a media access device (XBox), a Media service to supply that device (Xbox music and video), an OS (Win8), a Phone OS (Winpho8), a tablet (Surface), an app ecosystem that can integrate all of those devices/services together, web services that work with the devices and services, and many smaller pieces.
For the first time in the entire history of Microsoft, they can sell you devices and services that will let you work and have fun and communicate on the go with out having to rely on 3rd party tools or competing groups inside MS muddling the message/user experience.
Actually, people have been talking about Sinoffsky for a while. He insists on Windows being the driving force at MS and he is the reason that it took MS so long to get their products into a vertical integration....His departure has nothing to do with Windows 8 and everything to do with his ability to get on board the new vision.
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Do you want children to never learn how to use the real internet?
At least they could mark 5mm
how is it an ugly word?
and getting back to steam?
it needs to be part of the main UI, not part of the Game Library.
They need to add the ability to browse my media library and access internet media content since gaming on a console is becoming secondary to media.
proof that the geeks on this site are morons when it comes to marketing and sales.
Sorry, but the reality is that Comcast is the largest cable provider in the country. Do you expect to have cable content delivery with out cable companies?
Why make one with a tuner at all? Over the top delivery of cable TV via an app will do away with the need for cable card.
Who said you have to use modern (metro)? the start screen is just an app launcher/search tool....remove all metro apps and do not install any metro apps and you are not using the metro UI
Microsoft already has a deal with Comcast to deliver their content over-the-top into the xbox so this device can replace a DVR from comcast and provide a better app ecosystem for entertainment....cable operators will jump all over this kind of setup because it will make it cheaper for them to deliver and support their content and they get the best of both worlds...you subscribe to fast internet service and you subscript to their cable offerings.
specialty hardware is dead...TV providers will move to over the top delivery and dedicated apps for these settop boxes.
that has nothing to do with the Apple TV or the app or Apple's ability to cut the right deal....MLB has contracts with local networks and they avoid competing with them by blacking out the game for local markets.
better performance, larger ecosystem of apps, more updates for the software....
The built in Apps, unless it is a google TV, are dead ends. The services you want will take for ever yo get there and updates will never happen. Set-top boxes (Google TV, Apple TV, Boxee, Roku and this Xbox TV device) get updates, have a much larger ecosystem and if tehy do it right (like Google TV) they do HDMI pass-through so you can use the device's UI as an overlay and then TV becomes an app on the device (or in the case of comcast, XBox provides you the cable service.
I think Cable companies will look to making over the top streams available for multiple set-top devices and then they can get out of the cablebox game and people can BYOD to their service.
why would it be confusing? Xbox TV....all the over-the-top services of the Xbox, none of the games....99 bucks to compete with the Google TV and Apple TV.
it isn't painful though...it is DIFFERENT.
get over it.
why are you not just using desktop apps then and using the start screen as an app launcher?
If the world were made of engineers and developers then your work environment would have been the driving force for the OS.
a huge percentage of users on classic windows operates in full screen.
1080p is not "high res"
They own a media access device (XBox), a Media service to supply that device (Xbox music and video), an OS (Win8), a Phone OS (Winpho8), a tablet (Surface), an app ecosystem that can integrate all of those devices/services together, web services that work with the devices and services, and many smaller pieces.
For the first time in the entire history of Microsoft, they can sell you devices and services that will let you work and have fun and communicate on the go with out having to rely on 3rd party tools or competing groups inside MS muddling the message/user experience.
except that the person who envisioned metro is now in charge of Windows.
Actually, people have been talking about Sinoffsky for a while. He insists on Windows being the driving force at MS and he is the reason that it took MS so long to get their products into a vertical integration....His departure has nothing to do with Windows 8 and everything to do with his ability to get on board the new vision.
Because Disney has such a history of screwing up the franchises it buys...
and mine covers gasoline statistics since 1918 adjusted for inflation....so it is better.