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Xbox One TV Integration Broken For UK & Europe: Sky 50Hz Stutter

A number of British owners have complained about the TV integration feature being broken, due to the introduction of judder with 50Hz content.

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PsylentKiller3815d ago

My cablebox from optimum is not working with the xb1 anymore. It worked for two days then stopped. I tested the wires, the tv, even another xb1. Everything works but the xb1 Wong show a video or sound signal for the cablebox. The HDMI in on the xb1 works with other devices just not my io box.

LeCreuset3815d ago

That's weird that it would stop working. I'm not that familiar with either, but just from a general troubleshooting standpoint I would try unplugging the HDMI, resetting the Xbox, the tv, and the cable box. You may have to power them all off and unplug them for about a minute. Then hook everything back up and turn them all on. A friend of mine had a similar problem with his PS3 that I resolved that way.

kneon3815d ago

Yup this is the first thing to try. Sometimes HDMI devices get confused and stop talking to each other properly, resetting them all usually clears things up.

Stsonic3815d ago (Edited 3815d ago )

I don't understand who asked for this feature in the first place. You have to have both boxes anyway so surely telling your Xbox to play TV is going to be no easier than picking up your remote?

iamnsuperman3815d ago (Edited 3815d ago )

I guess the idea was to have a cheaper way to be important in the TV space (for mass market appeal while shoving out competitors in TV and gaming).The method requires less time, resources and is more reliable (as it just needs a set top box so they are not relying on third party support) than iptv (which, funnily enough, is the way TV is going)

Drewidian3815d ago (Edited 3815d ago )

Voice can be faster than grabbing the remote and navigating a menu or guide when you're first rushing into catch the news or a sports match. All you have to do is say "Xbox On, Xbox Watch TV, Switch to {Channel}", all while you walk in the door, take off and hang up your coat, and get something to eat or drink. all without having to go to the living room to pick up the remote. Its not perfect, but I'd expect that as time goes on MS will make this better especially with the Nokia acquisition and their talented engineers. Who knows what is possible.

Stsonic3815d ago (Edited 3815d ago )

@dredwindian "Voice can be faster than grabbing the remote and navigating a menu or guide when you're first rushing into catch the news or a sports match. All you have to do is say "Xbox On, Xbox Watch TV, Switch to {Channel}"

You missed the part where you have to pick up the remote to turn the TV on :/

So for anyone with unsopported cable box it would be -

Pick up remote>turn TV on>Xbox on>Xbox watch TV>Pick up other remote to change channel.

Cueil3815d ago

watching a game while playing is useful as is pulling up info without having the game stopped or looking away from the game

IanVanCheese3815d ago

Stsonic: Kinect can turn your tv on for you fwiw

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Finch3815d ago (Edited 3815d ago )

This happened to me to. I found that you have to do a little maintenance. You have a lot of things going on and it seems if you have to many things going sometimes things lock up or refuse to work. What I have found to fix this is you have to quit old apps running. So in the dash hover over any apps that are open or you used before and press the start button (3 lines) and go to quit. Close as many as you can that you ain't using plus the TV app. Then start it up again by going to TV. Should work fine now. Seems that too many apps get to running and locks up if you never close down old apps. Give it a try let me know if it helps.

It seems to help to keep closing apps that you don't care to keep running in the back. So if you open a app it stays open and might want to keep in mind that its open and close it out. After you done using it.

solidboss073815d ago

Think I would just press a button on a remote. Having everything constantly on, wasting electricity, wired through the console and half of the time it all doesn't work, it all sounds like an unnecessary mess.

Demster3815d ago

people disagree with you for doing the only right thing : enjoying your console.

sad fanboys, get a life lol

a08andan3815d ago

If this fault is because Microsoft did not consider this, then it is a SUPER MEGA FAIL. I hope they fix it for those who purchased an Xbox One or plan to do that.

PSN-JeRzYzFyNeSt3815d ago

those who buy Xbox one in the Europe should know that the TV features would only work well in the US. i applaud you guys for wasting yur money on a console with even less features in Europe … should be buying Xbox for the games it will give you guys! even tho it won't be many.. so why buy the Xbox lol love wasting money?

falviousuk3815d ago

Do you own shares in Sony, why does it bother you so much that people want to have an xbox, its their money and their choice, but shy does it bother you so much that they chose to buy one.

Oh wait, I understand ...... T R O L L

Loving the xbox and its games, and find the TV integration far better than i expected. Being able to walk in the roomn and say 'Xbox On' to turn on the console and tv and get right into the action or watch some TV.

However, integration isnt fully done yet in the UK, thats supposedly coming next year and will be even better.

Stop being such a childish fanboy and enjoy the games. not the plastic, wires and silicon

pompombrum3815d ago

^^^ Why are Xbox One fans so obsessed with Sony? You do realize you actually mention Sony and PS4 more than the haters do in these sort of articles.

PSN-JeRzYzFyNeSt3815d ago (Edited 3815d ago )

@falviou

dude get a life.

ABizzel13815d ago

@UnRivaLeD

First off there are games on the XBO, and for people who enjoy their exclusives and XBL, then it's natural for them to want to upgrade to the XBO.

That being said anyone who bought the console in EU was setting themselves up to be disappointed. M$ said countless times that EU would not be able to use many of the features the XBO has to offer Day 1 due to EU's providers and non-standardized cable system, on top of American Football not being a huge draw in EU. The EU features aren't coming until 2014, and it makes no sense for someone to buy the XBO in EU right now. Just wait, and hopefully there will be a price drop by then.

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Schizoid3815d ago

MS is kinda short sighted when it comes to these things... I kinda feel sorry for xBoners. One Mega fail after another.

amiga-man3815d ago

I don't own an Xbone and my Sky works just fine without it.

falviousuk3815d ago

I own an xbox with my sky box plugged into it and works just fine, even better being able to jump from tv to gaming with just a sentence.

Thank you

Stsonic3815d ago

If you read the description it says the problem arises with 50hz content.

LoveSpuds3815d ago

guess what, I can touch a button and switch between sources in a second flat....whats your point chief?

SirBradders3815d ago

Seriosly mate how many times do you swap between tv and games a day in all honesty?I don't know about you but i mainly play games as my form of entertainment which im sure most gamers do.
You sound like for years you sat there with 3 tvs on, one playing COD one watching football and the other with hardcore porn.
You have effectively paid £430 to save you a couple of seconds a day in swapping from tv to games PML.
Unless you genuinly prefer xbox exclusives which aint many might i add and most aint to great because they've been milked IMO.

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No Man's Sky Is Easily One Of Gaming's Greatest Comeback Stories

Despite No Man Sky's rocky launch, Hello Games managed to turn it into one of the best space exploration RPGs out there.

-Foxtrot13h ago

I hate the whole concept of "comeback story" because at the end of the day it doesn't remove the core issue we had in the first place, that we were lied to, it was disappointing and it launched with bare content to what was promised for years.

Any bad game can have a comeback story if it's supported enough after launch but for me if you launch in a terrible state then you had your chance. I can applaud you for what you've done after but at the end of the day there's not much of a choice since most gamers would blank your next product if you ditched your last game so fast, it's not about repairing the game but spending your time repairing gamers trust before you launch your next product otherwise it would be dead on arrival.

With these stories and the games being updated, the only way is up most of the time so of course it's going to improve the game and feel better over all, getting better and better as time passes. No Mans Sky, Sea of Thieves, Fallout 76 etc but then you have games like Anthem, Suicide Squad, Redfall and The Avengers where the devs just clearly moved on, now if they have another product people won't be as exited for it, I mean hell Guardians of the Galaxy was a great game but because of the Avengers it didn't help its sales since people were obviously still sour at that point.

I still think despite the improvements to games like No Mans Sky and Cyberpunk along with being better now overall the games are still not up there to what was promised and hyped as for years.

If we keep celebrating these “comeback stories” then unfortunately it only strongly supports the concept that these studios / publishers can continue to push half arsed broken products out for the sake of quick sales instead of waiting until they are fully finished. We need to condemn this awful behaviour or sadly we lose all voice and power as consumers.

Sonic188112h ago(Edited 12h ago)

I feel the same way about Cyberpunk 2077. I'm glad you mentioned that. I'm not a fan of comeback stories as well. But No man sky developer was a small indie team compared to CDPR. It's worse when it's coming from a AAA developer

Nacho_Z12h ago

"Any bad game can have a comeback story if it's supported enough after launch"

You make it sound so simple and easy. It's not. After release Hello Games poured countless hours into getting their game closer to what they originally wanted, without charging a penny to anyone. That's not normal.

The reason NMS and HG are held in such high esteem and calling them liars is a weak stance is the amount of work they've put into it, for free. They're not chasing a quick buck, they've dedicated their lives over the last few years to giving their fans the game everyone wanted.

-Foxtrot11h ago(Edited 11h ago)

They are liars though...

We are not revising history here, I'm sorry but we're not

They built this game up for years and they launched it knowing full well it wasn't up to scratch to what they originally showed off or hyped it up to be.

"They're not chasing a quick buck, they've dedicated their lives over the last few years to giving their fans the game everyone wanted"

And like I said above most of that comes from the fact that if they had just moved on straight away nobody would have supported their next game. They've washed most of that sour taste away after supporting No Mans Sky so now they are doing a new game which more people feel like they can support and get excited for.

Anyway how can you say "You make it sound so simple and easy. It's not" and then make the point that "Hello Games poured countless hours into getting their game closer to what they originally wanted, without charging a penny to anyone"

This means that if a small team like this can turn a game around then big AAA games like Suicide Squad, Redfall, Anthem and the like should have been able to do it no problem, oh but that's right they didn't want to put the time or effort into it. They can do it but some people just decide not to.

milohighclub1h ago(Edited 1h ago)

Whatever happened at launch is in the past. By your logic they could have supported it for a year got it to the project they promised then stopped but they didn't. They're still supporting it to this they, they've released more content post than pretty much any game I can think off. More than most MMOs. They didn't have to go this far but they have and don't have any plans of stopping. All for free too.
Yeah they had a shit launch and they've apologised, learned and more than made up for it. I was pissed off at them at launch, but not petty enough to keep slandering them 7 years later.
You have much bigger studios releasing half assed games and fixing it later or even worse not even bothering.

TheCaptainKuchiki1h ago

And it doesn't change the fact that the game is a boring procedurally generated environment in which your repeat the same actions over and over again with no real purpose. I hate when they say that the game became good.

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thorstein13h ago

I really enjoyed it at launch and had every trophy by August 2016.

The experience I had is no longer in the game: It was just me and my ship. It was a survival game and the feeling of loneliness in the universe was pervasive. There was no way to ruin too far from your ship and, in an emergency, you grenaded a hole in the ground to survive.

I miss that aspect, but since then, I love what they've done.

Hugodastrevas11h ago

I'd say it's THE definitive comeback story

TheGamingHounds9h ago

Final Fantasy 14 takes that one imho

jwillj2k411h ago

Oh great another story about the cleanest shirt in a bin of dirty laundry.

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The Holy Gosh Darn: Ozan Drøsdal Talks Dialogue Skipping Mechanics And Why He Hates The Word Quirky

Ozan Drøsdal tells TheGamer about The Holy Gosh Darn, the final part of the Tuesday Trilogy.

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Hollow Knight: Silksong's Follow-Up to Grubs is a Logical Progression

Hollow Knight: Silksong’s new collectible that succeeds the popular Grubs has the potential to deepen the mysteries of the new world.

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maykhausonninh1h ago

That sounds very interesting. I'll definitely give it a try if I have the chance.