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Adinnieken on 05 June 2013
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SvennoJ said:
Adinnieken said:
 

Do you ever get to a point where you realize that people are either incapable of seeing or just too caught-up in their own mindset of how things are to see what both the author and you are envisioning?

Some people won't get it, and others will ceasingly try to never get it.

It's about a providing a multi-sourced, single-point content delievery service where the source and delivery are ubiquitous and transparent.

You as the viewer simply ask for content.  The Xbox One serves up that content.

Do you not see that that is no advantageous at all to a lot of people. I don't want to also pay for xbox live, netflix, hulu, per episode, per movie, etc, or watch commercials again. The only thing I want is for my cable box to stop showing program times for shows on channels I'm not subscribed to, not offer up a whole bunch more options I don't have access to.

Cable already does it all. Kids watch their cartoons on demand (no commercials in the kids streams luckily), my wife and I use the dvr to watch the stuff we want. We both fast forward through a lot of stuff just for the interesting bits. Tv or just the amp is usually on as background noise as well since it also has radio channels. At night it's on with some boring rerun or something to fall asleep with.

Xbox one as a cable box replacement/enhancement is pretty pointless unless it has multi room DVR capabilities. For a single person living by himself with selective viewing, iptv is probably cheaper then cable. It's a lot less interesting for families.

I don't disagree with your point.  For some people, the Guide on the Xbox One and the capabilities it has for enhancing the TV viewing experience won't be a selling point.  That's fine.  It doesn't detract from the capabilities of the Xbox One.  It's an additional feature on top of it's core feature, which is playing games.