And then there was (Xbox) One - How Xbox plans to change Television forever

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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.

You are making valid points. Some people will not want or need this.

People who are happy to manage their own streaming servers and know exactly what they want to watch and how to get to it will not benefit much from this. People who don't want ot pay for subscription and just watch stuff online on CBS, NBC and other streaming webistes will also not be fond of this.

However there will be a huge number of people that will find something like this very usefull and addictive. I think its a product with massive market appeal.

A search engine for content, be it linear or IP based, or even hosted on your local file server... that is voice navigated and brought down to a technical level that anyone can absolutely understand. The possibilities are endless...

"Xbox watch Chuck Norris"

"Xbox watch Jenna Marbles"

"Xbox watch Chicago bulls beat Orlado magic"

"Xbox watch tornados flip cars"

etc...