{"id":745897,"date":"2013-04-10T14:50:19","date_gmt":"2013-04-10T18:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=428920"},"modified":"2013-04-10T14:50:19","modified_gmt":"2013-04-10T18:50:19","slug":"next-generation-xbox-will-reportedly-take-over-tvs-with-deep-set-top-box-integration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/745897","title":{"rendered":"Next-generation Xbox will reportedly take over TVs with deep set-top box integration"},"content":{"rendered":"<center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/10\/microsoft-xbox-720-set-top-box-428920\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" width=\"650\" height=\"489\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/05\/microsoft-xbox-sign-5.jpeg?w=650&#038;h=489&#038;crop=1&#038;resize=650%2C489\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Microsoft Xbox 720\" title=\"Xbox\" \/><\/a><\/center>It's becoming clear that <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/microsoft\">Microsoft<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=msft\">MSFT<\/a>) doesn't want <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/02\/11\/microsoft-xbox-720-specs-rumor-324980\/\">its next-generation Xbox<\/a> to be just a gaming console. Unnamed sources <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2013\/4\/10\/4208970\/next-xbox-tv-entertainment-plans\">have told <em>The Verge<\/em><\/a> that Microsoft will \"introduce a feature that lets its next-generation console take over a TV and set-top box in a similar way to Google TV\" that \"will work by taking a cable box signal and passing it through to the Xbox via HDMI, allowing Microsoft's console to overlay a UI and features on top of an existing TV channel.\" Since <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/google\">Google's<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=goog\">GOOG<\/a>) <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/15\/google-tv-google-io-379696\/\">Google TV platform has largely been a dud so far<\/a>, it will be interesting to see what Microsoft plans to make the Xbox appeal more to consumers who are primarily interested in enhancing their TV experience. <em>The Verge's<\/em> sources claim\u00a0that the console \"will go a step further than Google's TV implementation thanks to Microsoft's partnerships with content providers,\" although it's not clear what this next step entails.<img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/GHecnSm14rw\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s becoming clear that Microsoft (MSFT) doesn&#8217;t want its next-generation Xbox to be just a gaming console. Unnamed sources have told The Verge that Microsoft will &#8220;introduce a feature that lets its next-generation console take over a TV and set-top box in a similar way to Google TV&#8221; that &#8220;will work by taking a cable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4809,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-745897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-382B","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4809"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=745897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=745897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=745897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=745897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}