Microsoft Shows Off Xbox One's Entertainment Features
Microsoft's Xbox One will dominate your living room entertainment by accessing your cable, on-demand video apps and other media, the company teased Friday. The above new video shows a demonstration of how the Xbox One will integrate with those services, and how it will allow users to switch quickly between them with voice commands. Yusuf Mehdi, Xbox's chief marketing and strategy officer, and Marc Whitten, Xbox Live's vice president, walk us through the experience in the 12-minute video, which was recorded Nov. 1, The demo featured "live code" from the Xbox One. Microsoft previously detailed the Xbox One's relationship with the cable box and other applications, but this is the first time users get a big picture of what that looks like. The Xbox One's home screen will look familiar to Windows 8 users, as it features a tile-structure similar to Windows' new Metro layout. Compared to the Xbox 360 layout, it has much less stuff on the hom...