Xbox One DVR Capability Coming?
With each new console generation, the machines become much more than a gaming platform. First, they could play DVD’s, then they could hook up to the internet for online modes of gameplay. Then they had full access to online capabilities, stream shows, and on and on.
Yet one thing no console has been able to do before is record television shows via the console itself. Well, according to Microsoft Blogger Paul Thurrott, that’s about to change. Mainly because of the exclusion of Windows Media Center in the upcoming Windows 10 operating system.
“Of course, many Media Center fans actually use the product to record and watch TV shows via Media Center PCs in the living room,” Thurrott said. “Microsoft’s solution for this need will apparently be the Xbox One, though the console currently only provides live TV watching, but not recording. My sources tell me that will change, and most probably this year, to include TV recording.”
Though Microsoft declined to confirm this as a possibility, it is an intriguing notion. One that would truly lend to the Xbox One’s “all-in-one” persona that it has tried to make for itself since launch. We’ll just have to wait and see if this Xbox One DVR comes to life.