Reintroduction of original XB1 2014

[binary solo]

theprof00 said:

binary solo said:
With no Blu-ray drive they would need 2 HDMI-in ports. because without Blu-ray (and DVD) playback you need to have 3 devices connected to your TV to get the full suite of entertainment: games, Cable TV and physical media. If you can't plug both the cable box and your stand alone blu-ray player in to the Xb one then you no longer have the "all in one box".

I don;t see the original Xb one strategy working even with a discless box. I think the digital distribution only model will be subscription based, just like PS+, Onlive, and PS Now are / will be. Putting the Steam model into Xbox when the subscription model is already well established on Playstation would be a mistake. The Steam model is the past.

Or an HDMI-in on the bluray drive, which is also a dvr? Just throwing ideas out there.

So you're forced to buy the overpriced Xbox BR drive rather than a cheap BR drive oin order to be able to watch BR movies etc all through the one HDMI port on your TV? doesn't sound like a very good solution. And of course most cable boxes come with DVR, so an Xbox proprietary DVR would seem to have limited utility.

Anyway, aside from reducing the form factor, removing BR drive doesn;t reduce the cost of the Xbox by that much, so you're losing a lot of functionality and having to shoehorn alternative solutions for very little cost saving. If you just remove the BR drive and sell the Xb one for $399 you're still losing money on the hardware.