McFly1955;1541194 wrote:My Xbox One is delivered and sitting at home waiting for me along with Battlefield 4...I also ordered COD Ghosts today for $49 on amazon (even though I always tell myself I won't buy COD), but that won't be here until Monday/Tuesday.

I should have some time to mess around tonight and over the weekend with the Xbox One and I'll post my impressions and compare to the PS4 sometime soon.

I hope I like the Xbox One, and then I think things will look like this in my family room:

-Get rid of Roku
-TV plugged in through Xbox, everything done on the Xbox as far as Netflix/Hulu/TV/Youtube (we have kids and use those apps a lot).
-The PS4 will remain hooked up but be used only for first party games primarily.

So unless the Xbox One has some problems I'm thinking it will be used a lot in our house.

How does it work for hooking cable tv into Xbox? Does the Xbox interface just overlay on top your current cable tv package? You obviously still need a DTV cable box right?

chicago510;1541348 wrote:How does it work for hooking cable tv into Xbox? Does the Xbox interface just overlay on top your current cable tv package? You obviously still need a DTV cable box right?

So Xbox has it's own guide that will be used rather than the cable box interface. The Kinect acts as an IR blaster for it. For some things like settings or DVR you still have to use the cable box interface.

Yeah, we'll see how it goes for TV.

We very rarely watch live TV, so all we currently have is a coax cable directly into the TV, and we get like 15-20 HD channels that way.

I picked up a little box from our cable provider, which allows me to plug the coax line into the box, then it has an HDMI output, which will go into the Xbox One, then HDMI to my receiver...Then Receiver to TV. That is the plan at least, so I'll post a follow-up on how that goes...Not sure since we don't have a standard cable box or Dish/Directv box...

McFly1955;1541359 wrote: I picked up a little box from our cable provider, which allows me to plug the coax line into the box, then it has an HDMI output, which will go into the Xbox One, then HDMI to my receiver...Then Receiver to TV. That is the plan at least, so I'll post a follow-up on how that goes...Not sure since we don't have a standard cable box or Dish/Directv box...

Sounds like a clusterfuck

dlazz;1541403 wrote:Sounds like a clusterfuck

yeah I couldn't follow that.

Picked mine up today along with BF4 and DR 3, going to check it out either tonight or tomorrow.

My Xbox One and replacement PS4 showed up today. Early on I am leaning toward the Xbox One. But the whole first PS4 being defective might have made me a little biased.

Glory Days;1541436 wrote:yeah I couldn't follow that.

Old setup = Cable directly into TV
New setup = Cable into cable box ---- HDMI out of the cable box and into the Xbox One (it has 1 hdmi in port) ---- HDMI out of the xbox one and into my audio receiver ---- HDMI out of the audio receiver and into the TV.

So, if you want to watch TV, you have to have the xbox one on. Before, If I wanted to watch TV the TV had to be on input one, if I wanted to play Roku/Xbox/PS3, I had to change to the corresponding channel on the receiver , and changed the TV to a different input.


I've messed with the Xbox One setup for a couple hours tonight and we are all set. I walk into the room and say "xbox on" and it turns on the receiver, the TV, and the xbox, saying "xbox turn off" turns off all 3 devices.

The voice controls in the menus are pretty good...at this point I don't see myself using them a lot. I will be using things like "xbox go to netflix", or "xbox go to hulu plus" a lot, because that saves a lot of button presses and it seems to work pretty much 100% of the time on the first try. Watching TV through the Xbox one is fine, and I like the idea of being connected to the xbox at all times and being able to switch between apps and games all super fast.


I've not played a game on the system yet, the wife and I watched a few shows and I just started installing Battlefield 4, which is taking awhile.

So far the Xbox One seems like a winner just from the media center standpoint, looking forward to playing some games next.

I've been playing a lot of NBA2K14 on the PS4 -- awesome game.

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I'm still trying to find an xbox 1 somewhere

Probably going to pick up an Xbox1. Not sure which direction I want to go when it comes to games yet.

Rotinaj;1541792 wrote:Probably going to pick up an Xbox1. Not sure which direction I want to go when it comes to games yet.

I will probably get a Xbox one eventually...the games are shit right now though. I'll probably wait till March to get one

wes_mantooth;1541832 wrote:I will probably get a Xbox one eventually...the games are shit right now though. I'll probably wait till March to get one

I wouldn't say the games are shit right now but there are some good titles coming next year.

wes_mantooth;1541832 wrote:I will probably get a Xbox one eventually...the games are shit right now though. I'll probably wait till March to get one

This is kind of how I feel. I used to be into all the sports games but haven't bought one for a couple years. Ryse looks pretty cool but I read the multiplayer is shit. Ill probably just get COD and hate myself for it later on.

I thought ryse looked interesting....the reviews have been awful....really awful.

There isn't one game that I want....that all changed when watchdogs got pushed back

I really can't stand the COD games, but amazon has the new one for $49 if anyone is interested.

When Titanfall or Destiny come out I'll look into getting an Xbox.

I Wear Pants;1541907 wrote:When Titanfall or Destiny come out I'll look into getting an Xbox.

Yeah those both look awesome.

Xbox one is awesome

robj55;1543272 wrote:Xbox one is awesome

Why is it awesome?

imex99;1543277 wrote:Why is it awesome?

Just enjoying it a lot, really good games and the operating system is really sweet and easy to use. The Kinect is really good as well, much more powerful than the previous version. Can't wait for some of the bigger titles to be released.

Got madden yesterday, first time in a few years! Very nice game so far, looks really good on the PS4.

Unrelated, but I bought BF4 for the PC yesterday

dlazz;1544424 wrote:Unrelated, but I bought BF4 for the PC yesterday

A day early. It's $30 on amazon today