Like I said, imo a problem that doesn't exist. It's a nice feature, but certainly nothing more, especially not somethong to wrap the entire marketing around...

Im just happy someone is able go see this and understand why its exciting. :)

Working for an online department of a large cable company ive been able to see the disconnect between cable TV and online video consumption first hand.  Both have a different monetization model and they often clash in terms of interests and frankly, its very hard to move forward with technology and not step on someones toes. And with all that happening behind the scenes, users are stuck in the middle...

This is the first possible solution to the future of TV problem ive stumbled upon which is technologically sound and frankly very exciting, and allows for everyone to do what they do best and keep their jobs.

It's probably a nice feature to be able to take input from external devices, but fwiw even the 360 is a nice TV platform on its own and more than provides for all the TV content I watch.

While I think its a nice feature, I dont see it causing alot of people to buy an xbox, not right away at least. The average consumer walking around best buy or a frys might see a demonstration of it and think its neat but I doubt they will shell out $300-500 for it.

There are so many devices out there right now that let u stream content; smartphones, tablets, consoles, TVs, PCs, laptops, Apple/Google TV. I think most people r content with that and many still enjoy cable. I just dont thinkt having to switch from youtube to netflix to cable is that big of a deal to people.

I could see it being big in the near future but im sure Apple/Google will have a product that does this just as well if not better and much cheaper by then.

I think you're too quick to give props to MSs vision while talking down GoogleTV.

Searching for content and then letting you choose which source you want it from is exactly googleTVs promise. Now, is it perfected? No. Hell, NintendoTVii does this but its also not perfected yet.

Google's setback is its divided approach. It started with android, googletv, and chromeOS. Well, technically android was also split when moving into tablets. However, a year later that was merged. This year googleTV is being merged with android. Do you know what happened when they merged the tablet space? Google launched the $199 Nexus 7 and later the 10. Both do very well considering they are not available in most retailers.

What do you think will happen when the latest version of android is merged with GoogleTV and a $99 settop box is release that does not include an additional service fee (ala Live)? When it has the power of GoogleNow and cannot only search all available content seamlessly (use Google Now on any capable phone) but also literally predicts what you want to watch.

MSs focus on this TV internet bridge is fantastic. Its exactly what I said would happen a year ago about this generation of consoles. However, its not going to be that end-all disruptive feature that forces the mass consumer to spend $400+ on a GAME CONSOLE.

See that's the issue. While the gamer on forums will bitch and whine about the "casual TV focus" of various presentations, the mass market will always see "xbox" as a game console first and then that massive price tag. Then they'll look at their various phones and tablets and say "meh, I'm good."

Meanwhile Apple and Google will perfect the same service they've been slowly building up and sell it for $99, blowing MS out of water mostly due the fact that they can build of the established massive iOS and Android bases. In order for this to be truly MSs super feature (which it is a great feature I think), MS will need to put out that rumored TV only box... for cheap.

So to the OP, yes its a very awesome feature, however the delivery mechanism is going to cause it to fail for MS.

I'll certainly care when I get the bill at the end of the month. I pay for cable anyway, so might as well use their included video on demand, time-shifting, dvr and what not features.

I already cancelled Netflix because it was eating up my bandwidth cap (yes the cable company controls my internet, great...), so iptv is out too. Actually my cable company already has an app for 360 to watch tv online a la carte (behind live pay wall ofcourse), but then it comes of my data cap, it's lower quality and forces commercials in the stream, no thanks. I'll stick to dvr and keep fast forward control to skip commercials.

The ultimate goal is that you shouldnt care where the content is coming from.  Be it IPTV, be it Cable, be it Satellite, etc.  I just shouldnt have to care and should just be able to have One high performance box that does this for me. The 360 was the 1st real step and the Xbox One is the next huge step.  If the performance is what was previewed a couple of weeks ago where I can very quickly jump from a live NFL football game to a Hulu or Netflix video then what people really want will be achieved.

the potential is there, MS just has to communicate it better

Uh, yeah, moving on from that.  Anyway, I don't see how this is going to be disruptive when only gamers, for the most part, are going to buy it.  If it does some things well, then it will get copied, just as it has copied some features from existing services.  The majority of people are going to go with a much lower cost alternative.

Yep, pretty much this.  We aren't going to see the average person run out and buy an XO so that they won't have to switch TV inputs.  However, they might buy a $99-$150 box that does everything the XO does--except the games, of course, which they won't care about, anyway.

Edit:  Actually, though, I think we're going to see all this integrated in with the TV itself, which would make the XO superfluous for non-gamers.

..well i'm no expert by you listed a bunch of issues with apple TV and google tv a couple of posts back.  it's my understanding that apple/google don't want it to behave like that but that the content providers are blocking it from happening.  kind of like how i can watch full episodes of the daily show on my PC but it is blocked on iphone/ipad/andriod and i'll assume windows phone too.

anyways, what you've layed out there is something i would actually want unlike what MS has presented so far.  i'm just not sure MS has any better chance of succeeding when the content providers are afraid of digital.   i dunno, maybe MS can pull an apple/itunes moment but it took forever for the music industry to change.  and right now the tv industry is in now where near as bad shape as the music industry was so they have less motivation to change.

edit:  actually, you said it far better than i did/can.  

Working for an online department of a large cable company ive been able to see the disconnect between cable TV and online video consumption first hand.  Both have a different monetization model and they often clash in terms of interests and frankly, its very hard to move forward with technology and not step on someones toes. And with all that happening behind the scenes, users are stuck in the middle...