Microsoft is ablution an Xbox One add-on in Europe
Microsoft is ablution an Xbox One add-on in Europe this fall, the Agenda TV Tuner, that will acquiesce Xbox One owners to use the console's TV appearance with over-the-air advertisement TV, the companyannounced today.Currently, the Xbox One can interface with cable or agenda set-top boxes via HDMI pass-through. The Agenda TV Tuner will acquiesce the animate to abutment the chargeless DVB-T, DVB-T2 and DVB-C advertisement standards Cheap Albion Gold. Barter bung a coaxial cable from their antenna into the device, which tunes and decodes the signal, afresh sends it to the Xbox One over USB. Owners of the Agenda TV Tuner will be able to watch and abeyance reside TV on the Xbox One, although the assemblage will not activity abounding DVR functionality for scheduling recordings of authentic shows.
The tuner will abutment the OneGuide for TV listings on both the Xbox One and its SmartGlass app, as able-bodied as video on appeal options, Snap admission and Kinect articulation control.The Xbox One Agenda TV tuner is set to be accessible this October in France, Germany, Italy and Spain for €29.99 and in the U.K. for ?24.99.Reached for animadversion apropos affairs for a absolution in North America, a Microsoft adumbrative provided Polygon with the afterward statement, which suggests that the Agenda TV Tuner will not be accessible stateside anytime soon"Over-the-air television accession varies arena to region Albion Silver. A acceptable acquaintance may await on antennas that not all households have. Consequently, it is added difficult to accommodate an out-of-the-box customer band-aid for over-the-air TV in the U.S. compared to added markets about the world. We will abide to appraise new technologies and approaching opportunities to accompany over-the-air agenda TV to Xbox One in added markets." Antecedent Xbox Wire