Yep. I'm definitely going to look into setting this up.
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Yep. I'm definitely going to look into setting this up.
Something is definitely wrong. I can't remember the last time I was forced to wait while a game updated and I buy all my games digital too.
Scratch that. NBA 2k15 regularly required updating and only because I would leave it in suspended mode and then it would only require me to finish my game and go to the main menu. It would quickly update from the main menu and promptly allow me to dive back into another session.
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RancidLunchmeat
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Woot! That is awesome, I can only imagine what the issues must have been not getting all these little things out at launch, but they are slowly making the Xb1 the console that you have no reason to ever turn off.
What I found interesting.. I guess they have some agreement with Mohu. That's pretty cool, the Leaf they that they showed in the video is pretty good, I have one and it does as good of a job as you can expect for my area. Also that the tuner is USB based. I guess I just assumed for some reason it would use the HDMI-IN.
I wonder how the TV app works and how the Guide works if you have both a cable box and an OTA tuner plugged in at the same time? Why you ask? Because OTA signals (in my area anyway) are far superior than the compressed crap pushed through "HD" cable channels.
This is very cool!
RancidLunchmeat
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Yes, he's having a problem and it seems like the only "solution" is to try a full power cycle, or reset to factory defaults. Although the preview program might also be causing the conflict. But if it is, Scott should send that in as feedback.
I've had this problem since launch, before I was in the preview program, so it's not that. I honestly thought the games didn't auto-update, because they never have. I thought just the OS updated silently.
Edit: I must be missing the option for game updates. I've dug through all of the settings pretty thoroughly, but the only thing I can think of is that wherever that setting is, it's turned off.
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Not sure it's worth $60 to just in essence have a "cleaner" solution. As of now I'd just go Sling Tv and my OTA antenna for my TV separate. Maybe.
There is an OTA digital box, that I could attach a HDD to for that type of thing. But, honestly having less pieces work together is more ideal. If I had it my way, Xbox One would replace an existing DVR entirely, and support the same functionality. That would make it really useful as a device as we are effectively removing the cable companies crap box out of the equation, recording movies and streaming them to smart glass devices around the home.
Looked around and it seems some games require you to update the game manually. Meaning it will auto download the patches but requires you to start the game to initiate the install. Its looks like this is a dev issue.
Do you know for sure all the games you own have required you to update manually and wait for a patch to download and then install?
Do you ever see a little star in the top left corner of an app's or game's icon? Thats an indication thats it been updated.
In the Xbox power and startup settings is the "automatically download update and purchases" box checked?
Is your Xbox set as your "Home" Xbox?
OT: Move to IPTV. Here I recently changed from Rogers Cable to Bell Fibe and the HD (and SD) quality is markedly better. The difference is that cable is sending everything down crappy coax, while IPTV on only sending the encoded stream of what you are asking for.
RancidLunchmeat
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Unavailable in my area unfortunately. And now to go completely off topic just for a second - Looking up Bell Fibe, what? Wireless TV? Have you tried it? My experience with trying to stream HD content wirelessly has be subpar at best.
That should change drastically once cable providers switch to using SDV, switched digital video. In essence its more akin to IPTV or Video on Demand. This frees up the bandwidth required as only watched stations are sent down the pipe unlike sending every possible channel down all the time.
Its not wireless. Like standard cable you still have set top boxes, except you have a primary DVR unit with satellite units that stream broadcast or DVR content from the primary unit. The primary DVR has to be wired to the supplied router (which carves out set bandwidth for the IPTV, separate from any internet plan) either by COAX or Ethernet; the secondary units can stream from the primary either via Ethernet or WiFi. For both my primary and secondary I'm wired on Ethernet, however the router they supply has a beefy WiFi strength, far greater than any routers I've purchased myself before and I can do HD to my laptop OK.
For me it's getting the ability to pause live TV. That's really the biggest thing I miss about my DVR.
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Are you sure your TV does not do this? My current and last Sony TV do this with any sort of USB storage device attached.
US models don't do this. I'm guessing it's some legal/patent issue.
RancidLunchmeat
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I'm not sure if it's that or not, I know I've never tried to hook up external storage to any of my sets. They've had USB ports for a while, but I always thought they were troubleshooting ports or something for techs. I believe they are actually labeled as such, in fact.
I think the video said that the Xb1 is reserving 3GB of HDD space for pausing TV. I don't know how far back we've had affordable 3GB USB sticks to plug into TV's though?
Oh wow, I still have my OTA antenna in the attic but when I upgraded my motherboard I lost the ability to use OTA. I am going to be all over this as the quality of OTA is superb here, blows aways the compressed junk. 
To bad it won't DVR, but I guess it would run into my PC if I wanted anyway.
To bad it won't DVR, but I guess it would run into my PC if I wanted anyway.The official tuner released in non-North American territories is USB based too. It's been available since last fall. I suspect you should be able to find reviews & impressions from owners who have it & use HDMI In as well. Personally I think this is great news. Can't wait to get one. I want the official one, but if I can get the WinTv-955Q used for less than $60, I might do that instead. I just wonder why they didn't make their own instead of having to partner with Hauppauge.
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Not related to the Xbox One directly, but Microsoft is now rolling out their beta dashboard program to the Xbox 360, very similar to the Xbox One. The first update of note concerns support of external media. This will allow support for using 2 external drives of up to 2TB a piece. The old limit was 16GB per external device.
All I have to say is, it's about damn time. I have about 2 years worth of free Games with Gold titles to download.
From MajorNelson : http://majornelson.com/2015/04/09/x...ogram-members-now-supporting-2tb-hard-drives/
All I have to say is, it's about damn time. I have about 2 years worth of free Games with Gold titles to download.
From MajorNelson : http://majornelson.com/2015/04/09/x...ogram-members-now-supporting-2tb-hard-drives/
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