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superchunk on 18 December 2013
selnor1983 said:
superchunk said:
That is not obvious.

Comcast (largest cable provider) and others are actually creating their own super-smart cable boxes.

While they *may* have agreements with MS to allow the Xbone to pull in their internet based digital content, I seriously doubt very many will allow you to replace your entire cable box with an xbone. After all the rental charges on these boxes as well as the complete control the providers have over them is a stream of direct and potential income.

But providers allow you to watch live TV without a box already via Internet. Sky Go for example. Times have changed. You can subscribe to Sky and not even have a TV or a box. Its logical to fight streaming services. As they are all over Xbox One with streaming apps.

Yes many cable/sat are starting to provide internet based access to their content and that will continue as an application that will not be exclusive to Xbone. In fact I already have that app on my android devices.

XBone will likely get somethign similar as will PS4 and possibly even Wii U.

What you're predicting is already in play and not exclusive to any one.

 

EDIT: However, these actions won't get rid of the cable box as that's good revenue for the providers due to rental fees, etc. There will always be many features that the box is required for in the home.



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fauzman on 19 December 2013

I dont get it. You say it will replace cable boxes. Butthe x1 ISNT a cable box itself - so doesnt it need cable boxes to connect to?



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Sal.Paradise on 19 December 2013
Soleron said:
The Sky Box software is so rubbish that I welcome this and anything like it.

Seriously replaced 4 boxes so far, they make you pay for the replacement, lost recorded programs or just failed to record them, one day made the TV itself go into a reset loop for no reason.

I've had one for 4/5 years used in 4 different countries and it's been fine! 



whatever on 19 December 2013

The sad part is, you are actually serious. No this will never happen. The newer cable boxes all have multiple tuners (some up to 6) for simultaneous recording/viewing. Something the XBone will never have.



007BondAgent on 19 December 2013

Selnor, you need to return to reality, ever since you came back, your head has been stuck in the "CLOUDS" get it?

Anyways, NO



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Zekkyou on 19 December 2013
007BondAgent said:
Selnor, you need to return to reality, ever since you came back, your head has been stuck in the "CLOUDS" get it?

Anyways, NO

We need a Selnor section of the forums, just for him :p



MoHasanie on 19 December 2013

Why would they do this? Its more profitable for them to sell their own boxes. If they do sell Xbox One's, they would want a share of MS's profits from the X1 which I doubt MS would want to do.



    

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starcraft on 19 December 2013
theprof00 said:
Wow selnor, you are the king of misleading headlines and false information.
Xbox one doesn't have a cable hookup, so it can't replace a box.
And as an app, why xbox1 specifically? The one advantage I see xb1 having is its tv functionality, but that works with pass-through, and wouldn't even function on the app level, so basically, you're saying that cable providers will choose x1 just because.

Dude.

Yesterday you made a thread pretending that the PS4 had the same functionality as Microsoft's now-defunct Family Share program.



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theprof00 on 19 December 2013
starcraft said:
theprof00 said:
Wow selnor, you are the king of misleading headlines and false information.
Xbox one doesn't have a cable hookup, so it can't replace a box.
And as an app, why xbox1 specifically? The one advantage I see xb1 having is its tv functionality, but that works with pass-through, and wouldn't even function on the app level, so basically, you're saying that cable providers will choose x1 just because.

Dude.

Yesterday you made a thread pretending that the PS4 had the same functionality as Microsoft's now-defunct Family Share program.

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=5904844



Demensha on 19 December 2013
superchunk said:
selnor1983 said:
superchunk said:
That is not obvious.

Comcast (largest cable provider) and others are actually creating their own super-smart cable boxes.

While they *may* have agreements with MS to allow the Xbone to pull in their internet based digital content, I seriously doubt very many will allow you to replace your entire cable box with an xbone. After all the rental charges on these boxes as well as the complete control the providers have over them is a stream of direct and potential income.

But providers allow you to watch live TV without a box already via Internet. Sky Go for example. Times have changed. You can subscribe to Sky and not even have a TV or a box. Its logical to fight streaming services. As they are all over Xbox One with streaming apps.

Yes many cable/sat are starting to provide internet based access to their content and that will continue as an application that will not be exclusive to Xbone. In fact I already have that app on my android devices.

XBone will likely get somethign similar as will PS4 and possibly even Wii U.

What you're predicting is already in play and not exclusive to any one.

 

EDIT: However, these actions won't get rid of the cable box as that's good revenue for the providers due to rental fees, etc. There will always be many features that the box is required for in the home.


for starters comcast and as far as i know every other cable company do not build their own equipment. example in my market we are scientific and cisco boxes. comcast charges 9$ a month for the hd model and 15 for the hddvr.

whats to stop comcast and microsoft from stricking a deal in where microsoft adds a cisco tuner to the xbox one for comcast to use as a cable box. these special boxes are then rented out to customers as hddvr/gaming systems. then at 35$ a month comcast gets the entire rental fee but is buying the boxes from microsoft at a premium price say 600$. its a win win. not to mention the current comcast X1 hddvr would run a customer 900$ if they broke the box and comcast wanted to be dicks and charge the customer.

 

for a premium, i do believe we will have xbox1 dvr cable boxes in the next 1-2 years.