Anyone hear about the Xbox One and discuss how it affects the HTPC market. For a LONG time we've known microsoft and intel wanted to bring PCs to the living room. Microsoft's WMC was a huge step in this direction but it ultimate never caught on wide spread due to how complex it was.
Xbox 360 was a step in the right direction with it's streaming integration but that too wasn't done too well. It worked great as a media extender with tons of things like TVersity, XBMC, Plex,
This brings us full circle to Microsoft's Xbox One. Xbox One is features HDMI passthrough, in that is connects to your Cable Box, and then to your Xbox One, allowing all of your shows to show up in Xbox's new guide, allowing DVR(supposedly for games but could be for TV too I don't think this is confirmed), and allowing integration with other devices so you possibly will be able to see stats of your favorite player while watching NFL as Roger Goodel was there promoting NFL and Xbox One as well. In short, we're seeing Microsoft's BIGGEST push into the living room yet.
Although I hardly think this is a direct competitor with XBMC, Xbox One certainly has the capability to extend a LOT of XBMC's features. I don't see it unreasonable for Xbox One, like the Xbox 360, to be able to pick up your movies, as well as all the meta data XBMC scrapes as well. In short, this could be the holy grail of devices to extend your media. Simple for users to setup, Allows you to watch all your stored media, live HDTV, and apps like netflix, etc.
What's your thought of how the new Xbox will affect the HTPC market, and whether it will integrate with XBMC (well whether we'll be able to make it work with it), and hell, whether we may be even able to install XBMC onto the new xbox, even if it's via hack as the new Xbox is in fact running Windows 8!
Xbox 360 was a step in the right direction with it's streaming integration but that too wasn't done too well. It worked great as a media extender with tons of things like TVersity, XBMC, Plex,
This brings us full circle to Microsoft's Xbox One. Xbox One is features HDMI passthrough, in that is connects to your Cable Box, and then to your Xbox One, allowing all of your shows to show up in Xbox's new guide, allowing DVR(supposedly for games but could be for TV too I don't think this is confirmed), and allowing integration with other devices so you possibly will be able to see stats of your favorite player while watching NFL as Roger Goodel was there promoting NFL and Xbox One as well. In short, we're seeing Microsoft's BIGGEST push into the living room yet.
Although I hardly think this is a direct competitor with XBMC, Xbox One certainly has the capability to extend a LOT of XBMC's features. I don't see it unreasonable for Xbox One, like the Xbox 360, to be able to pick up your movies, as well as all the meta data XBMC scrapes as well. In short, this could be the holy grail of devices to extend your media. Simple for users to setup, Allows you to watch all your stored media, live HDTV, and apps like netflix, etc.
What's your thought of how the new Xbox will affect the HTPC market, and whether it will integrate with XBMC (well whether we'll be able to make it work with it), and hell, whether we may be even able to install XBMC onto the new xbox, even if it's via hack as the new Xbox is in fact running Windows 8!