I know everyone around here only cares about gaming, but I genuenly find the TV integration on Xbox One very interesting. You see, I work for a massive cable company and while I don't have much first hand television knowledge (I work for their Online division) I was speaking with a few people that do and they shared some interesting thoughts...
Initial thoughts from the media is that their TV approach is similar to Google TV, using IR blasters. However upon further discussion people at my work believe that there has to be a missing piece that we have yet to see which will make Xbox One revolutionize TV. They would not tout "TV! TV!" as loudly as they did and then present a solution identical to Google TV with IR blasters which is half baked at best.
They must have something up their sleeve as they had a collective grin while holding back the details, as if they feel they've cracked the 3rd screen puzzle which even Apple hasn't been able to solve yet.
So what could it be? How are they pulling off what really did look like the future of the living room?
I have 3 theories:
1. Seperate CableCard enabled TV tuner. Network enabled. Go to Microsofts XBox One site. It says "Advanced TV Hardware Required" in fine print. What the heck is Advanced TV Hardware?
2. Small, DVD-less Xbox 360 re-designed as a Media Extender that has coaxal input and plugs in to Xbox One. Those rumors of the small box that did media only make a lot of sense...could even throw X360 backwards compatibility in to the mix.
3. Something new and mindblowing no one has seen before
