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Agreed- I will be very tempted to buy one if it handles live TV well. Right now I have a PC sat under my TV running Windows Media Center and it's awkward and showing it's age. I might buy a game too, who knows.

Alternately, I'd love to be able to put Linux on that box and make it a MythTV box. Sadly, my cable provider locks all their channels. For better or worse, MS are one of the few that could create a set top box that legally decrypts all these channels and has a great UI.



you still need to plug a (supported) cable box with hdmi output into the xb1.

my bet is they are going to make use of [1] HDMI-CEC.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDMI#CEC




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