Comments on: Microsoft’s Xbox One DVR Feature Won’t Work Without External Hard Drive

By: Pete

Pete — Sat, 08 Aug 2015 00:51:00 +0000

In reply to Bryan. Wow, show me on the doll where MS touched you! Think you been hit by some unreliable products from MS.

By: Psionicinversion

Psionicinversion — Fri, 07 Aug 2015 09:31:00 +0000

In reply to Ogreatgames.com. it could be so it doesnt affect a games performance because the internal connection is running on 1 channel and the USB ports are running on separate channels. if your recording TV on the main hard drive it could interfere with the loading and performance of the drive as its trying to read and write at the same time. if the disc is quite fragmented from installing games uninstalling games etc the distance between data could be big (for the drive). so its trying to say read the start of the drive whilst at the same time trying to write to the end of the drive, can cause problems so by throwing it down a different channel to a separate drive it negates it as its a different drive

By: Ogreatgames.com

Ogreatgames.com — Fri, 07 Aug 2015 03:51:00 +0000

This is superb news about the DVR! However, couldn’t Microsoft simply update their systems to have internal capabilities for DVR? Why won’t the DVR work without the external hard drive?

By: efnet

efnet — Fri, 07 Aug 2015 01:43:00 +0000

In reply to Bryan. Jesus shut up

By: hiawa23

hiawa23 — Fri, 07 Aug 2015 01:11:00 +0000

Sounds good to me. I already have two external hdds, so a tuner, I am fine getting. My cable company wants to charge me an extra $12/month to use their DVR. No thanks. The Xbox 1 should be fine for my needs.

By: 2econd gpu unlocking

2econd gpu unlocking — Thu, 06 Aug 2015 23:00:00 +0000

We are fine with this

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 06 Aug 2015 20:13:00 +0000

I’m not at all surprised.. Another half-assed after-though solution to bring the machine up to the marketing fluff that surrounded it at launch. “This will be the only STB you need in the living room”.. Well it turns out that’s not at all the truth.. unless you add all these dongles to it just to get it to do what it was originally marketed as.. What a piece of pathetic garbage..!

For media content consumption the Xbox is the worst of them all.

The interface is so polluted with social,gaming achievements, etc that it’s unusable.
There are no apps for it.. HBO and Showtime are hitting all the other platforms but ignoring this one.
The music service is abysmal. The player locks up. There is no way to play music by Genre. There are no song ratings or ways to flag likes or dislikes. There is no way to tweak the radio stations to add similar content and they often play the same artists over and over.
The O/S doesn’t update until you get ready to use it,,., then it alerts you, makes you wait on the download and install before you can use it for what you sat down to use it for… Then it still doesn’t take you back to the menu you started at when it’s done.
Now you must have a 2nd Hard disk to use for DVR leaving the 500GB internal drive barely used.

Microsoft needs to abandon this one-box-fits-all strategy.. It’s failing with everyone other than hard-core gamer. They need to produce an “MBoxOne”.. One that puts some thought into the Media content consumption for consumers in the living room and doesn’t have games on it…at all

By: Triton

Triton — Thu, 06 Aug 2015 18:33:00 +0000

USB 2.0 is enough for DVR. (games require USB 3.0)
So it will work with older HDD’s and new ones will be sheap.

By: Wildwest310

Wildwest310 — Thu, 06 Aug 2015 18:19:00 +0000

That’s fine with me.