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Published on January 28th, 2015 | by Admin

Xbox announces more entertainment features in Australia

Since launch, it’s been our vision to bring more entertainment features and enable live TV through Xbox One. Today, we are pleased to announce the arrival of the public preview of OneGuide enabling Xbox One users to experience premium live TV features on Xbox One.

OneGuide provides an enhanced TV watching experience, enabling the combination of live, free-to-air, television with apps and other great features of the Xbox One. OneGuide can be navigated using the controller or Kinect Voice* and allows users to personalise how and when TV is watched.

Some key features of OneGuide include:

  • Favourite Channels in OneGuide: Create your own personal favourites in OneGuide so you can more quickly choose what you want to watch.
  • Channel Tuning by Voice: OneGuide allows you to call out your favourite TV channel by name and start watching it instantly*.
  • TV Listings in the OneGuide: Navigate TV listings using the controller or with Kinect Voice* control – e.g. say “Xbox show guide, what’s on Channel 7?” – to quickly navigate directly to that channel’s listings for free-to-air TV. Listings are available in both full screen and mini-guide, with the option of parental controls.
  • TV Playback in Snap Mode: You can now watch TV using the Snap mode, watching TV on the side and leaving the main screen for games, Skype, or other applications.
  • OneGuide on SmartGlass:  You will have access to the OneGuide listings on the new Xbox One SmartGlass Beta app with the ability to change channels on your TV.   You can download this app from the marketplace or store on your mobile device.
  • TV On Demand: TV listings in OneGuide will indicate which shows are available on demand from video apps. 

As part of Xbox’s commitment to bring more entertainment features to the Xbox One for consumers, Xbox Australia will be launching the Xbox One Digital TV Tuner in March 2015. 

The Xbox One Digital TV Tuner is the best way to view free-to-air, HD-quality** TV, on the Xbox One. It will provide Xbox One users in Australia with an over-the-air digital terrestrial TV experience through a USB-attached TV tuner, an alternative to accessing TV content from a free-to-air box connected through the HDMI-In port. One feature of the new digital TV Tuner, is the streaming of TV across a home network to a smartphone or tablet using the Xbox One SmartGlass app, allowing you to pause, rewind and fast forward TV. The feature also allows users to watch TV on a device within your home and game on the Xbox console simultaneously.

The Xbox One Digital TV Tuner will retail at $39.95 AUD and will be available to pre-order from the Microsoft store and other retailers starting today.

OneGuide and the TV Tuner are the latest features that Xbox is adding to provide the most innovative and comprehensive entertainment experience in Australian living rooms. Complementing existing features such as voice control*, DLNA streaming, Live TV Pass-through, 3D Blu-Ray, biometric sign-in, control of other devices via IR Blasting, Snap and SmartGlass to name but a few.

This complements the range of local apps already on, or coming soon to Xbox One including ABC iView, Foxtel Play, Plus7, tenplay, SBS on Demand & Quickflix. Further local content will be announced in 2015.

With over 40 apps for consumer to choose from in the Australian app store, you’ll also find the best of international content across gaming, sport, movies, TV, music, fitness, communication, the best of the web and more. See below for full list of apps.

Users registered in the Xbox One Preview program will see the option to configure OneGuide available as of today. For more information on the preview program – click here.

For media assets and further information please visit the Xbox Wire.

*Kinect required for voice-enabled features.

**Requires HD enabled TV.

*** Full list of apps available on OneGuide in Australia include:  

·         YouTube

·         Twitch

·         Plex

·         Skype

·         Vine

·         Popcornflix,

·         RealPlayer Cloud

·         Halo Channel

·         EA Access Hub

·         Uplay

 

 ·         NFL

·         NBA Game Time

·         WWE Network

·         Major League Baseball

·         National Hockey League

·         Vevo

·         Machinima

·         EA Access Hub

·         Forza Hub

·         Hasbro Game Channel

 ·         Major League Gaming

·         True Achievements

·         Crunchyroll

·         TED

·         GoPro Channel

·         Crackle

·         Al Jazeera

·         Break

·         Smosh

 

 


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