Xbox not all in one, live tv US only at launch

[kitler53]

happydolphin said:

kitler53 said:

i would like to know more details on “Live TV will require a supported receiver device with HDMI output,”.

does that mean daisy chaining any old cablebox with HDMI output? is it an xbone specific peripheral? i think it is weird that it is NA only at launch cause i was under the impression all you had to do was plug the HDMI cable currently in my tv into the xbox and that was that.

honestly, if people have to drop an extra $50 for a peripheral or if only specific MS approved tv providers are supported i can't see this being big.

It's probably because the xbox middleware (integrated in the xbox, no peripheral needed) interfaces with the cable boxing using custom logic that is dependent on the provider.

So, with that in mind, it would have to be tailored per geogrphical region, and within that per supplier.

when sony makes a TV is there region/supplier specific logic?  at a first pass all xbone is doing is displaying live tv so why is that NA only.  i guess i could see the one guide taking a bit longer to support everywhere but there are so many companies already doing it that you'd think the feature MS spent half of their reveal talking about is a feature MS would have figured out how to support globally at launch.  otherwise wtf is MS's message for the rest of the world?  ..please be excited for this device that does all this great stuff you can't do?