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From MSFT's side, I think it's more about adding value to their already excellent Xbox Live Gold service, and if they attract more customers to subscribe to Gold because of the features they're adding, great.
On the other hand, I've been a cord cutter for years. Why pay for a ton of content I don't care about when I can get most of the content I want for free? The rest of the content I want can either be watched via my quite cheap streaming-only Netflix account or by purchasing DVDs.
This Verizon FiOS deal doesn't do much for me. It's much the same as the Hulu deal with MSFT where you can only access the Hulu content on XBL Gold if you subscribe to Hulu Plus (which I have no reason or desire to do). Because the cable companies refuse to change, they're becoming irrelevant.
Yeah, well, it might not do a lot of that. I picked up an xbox at a garage sale with the intention of using it solely for streaming netflix. I didn't know that you had to subscribe to MS's service to be able to do that. It angered me, as Netflix doesn't (or shouldn't) actually use the xbox live service, doesn't add any value to the netflix service, almost doubles the cost of the service, and I'd get to give yet more money to Microsoft in exchange for exactly nothing.
The xbox went to the goodwill, and I've warned a few other people who were thinking of doing the same thing to avoid using the xbox for it. If Microsoft was a little less greedy, they may have actually sold me some games and made some money from me, instead of leaving a bad taste in my mouth.
I think you vastly underestimate how much you'd pay on an a la carte basis for the niche channels you list. AMC Networks has operating expenses of about $750 million. They obviously get revenue from ad sales, but the bulk of their revenue comes from cable operators. If instead of receiving payments from the 96 million US households that get AMC programming, they had to be paid by the households that actually want AMC programming (their highest-rated program, The Walking Dead, drew 6.6 million viewers Sunday night), the costs would be very high.
Cable providers just don't git it. All there off brand channels are only financially successful because of bundling channels. If you AMC's viewership is 96 Million, just think how few other really off brand cable channels reach.
I cut the cord about 2-3 years ago. Subscribed to NetFlix. Haven't looked back, doubt I will. Wake me up with HBO and Showtime(the only two cable offerings I really miss) are available w/o a monthly subscription to the crap that currently goes with them, and I'm in.
Would like to make a post about xbox .During the summer I paid for internet for the house so my boys had a gold membership that stopped in august .I find out today that my credit card has been charged the last 2 months for live which we do not use nor new we had .I run my laptop off my phone .If you think you have to have live I would wipe out your credit card info from your unit as I was told by Microsoft ANYONE can get into it and you to will be paying someone's funtime .Microsoft being the greedy people they are would of course not refund my money .
I'm a bit confused by the article. I think the author is ranting a little too much against cable companies and just not appreciating what is happening here. Picture this: Your house doesn't have every single room wired with a coaxial cable. You don't want to spend a ton of money wiring your house. You've got a room you would like your kids to watch Nick, Nick Jr, or Cartoon Network but this room has no coaxial. Now here's where it gets interesting. Your Xbox 360 is streaming live TV through the Internet. This isn't pre-recorded data files sitting on a Netflix or Hulu server. This is LIVE TV being streamed straight to your Xbox 360 through Wfi. In other words, this is (as far as I know) the first time you've been able to watch cable TV wirelessly. Sure there's the added expense of Xbox Live Gold but you can get those cards cheap if you look for discounts/sales AND you're not renting a cable box for $5-$10 a month.
But I'm a student and live in a small apartment that has no TV, and no place to put a new TV (money to buy one wouldn't be a problem), so I've been thinking to use the console with my PC monitor and my speakers.
My monitor only has HDMI and VGA input (no direct DVI), so I'm guessing I somehow need to split the audio and video signals coming from the XBox (or does the XBox have a direct 720p VGA output + external connectors for my speakers?).
My xbox360 elite (old style) is hooked up via HDMI to a tv no problem and I assume wouldn't be a problem with a monitor on HDMI, and then you can probably hook up sound direct from the monitor to your pc speakers? if your monitor doesn't suppose the xbox comes with an adaptor that goes to stereo red and white speaker hookups that can then be converted to 3.5mm speaker output.just make sure you get an xbox with HDMI (I don't know if they all have it or if the cheaper ones don't!)all these adaptor and stuff if they are needed shouldn't set you back much!
For people using VGA, you will need a VGA HD AV Cable for Xbox. View Connect an Xbox 360 S console or an original Xbox 360 console to a TV for instruction.Alternatively, most 3rd party intercoolers have vga connectors too.
The Xbox integrationIntegrations connect and integrate Home Assistant with your devices, services, and more. [Learn more] allows you to control Xbox One (or newer) consoles from Home Assistant.
Note that for the media player and remote entities to be added your Xbox will need to have remote features enabled via Settings -> Devices & connections -> Remote features (you may need to upgrade your controller firmware).
Because it uses the Home Assistant Cloud account linking service you must have either cloud: or default_config: in your configuration.yamlThe configuration.yaml file is the main configuration file for Home Assistant. It lists the integrations to be loaded and their specific configurations. In some cases, the configuration needs to be edited manually directly in the configuration.yaml file. Most integrations can be configured in the UI. [Learn more].
The Xbox media player platform will create media player entities for each console linked to your Microsoft account. These entities will display the active app and playback controls as well as a media browser implementation, allowing you to launch any installed application.
You can find Product IDs using the Developer Tools -> Events tab and listening to the call_service event. In a new browser tab, navigate to the media browser for your console and click on an App/Game to see the product ID in the event.
Below is a picture elements card that can be added to a dashboard to provide an Xbox controller interface in your frontend. It utilizes the services detailed above. Replace remote.xboxone_remote and media_player.xboxone with the names of your entities and enjoy! Courtesy of @SeanPM5 and @hunterjm.
The Xbox media source platform allows you to use the Media Browser panel to view both your own, and community, gameclips or screenshots for games that you have installed on any of your consoles. As with any other media source integrationIntegrations connect and integrate Home Assistant with your devices, services, and more. [Learn more], you are also able to send these clips to supported media players like Chromecast.
xbox is connected and able to download covers from unity. not sure why it doesnt work for me. turned fakelive off and it tells me i need xbox live gold to use netflix. also keeps prompting me to update before sign in to live. i think ill turn fakelive on again and wait til for help/info.
i dont mind if anyone uses it, customizes it or even uses parts of it to make a new one. i threw it together with images from google and took about an hour or so to get it how i thought looked nice. the easiest way to manually install new artwork is using aurora asset editor. sometimes it takes a few tries to ftp your database but when it loads, find app, right click get front art, drag pic to program, go back to ftp tab and right click for save all artwork. go back to 360 and restart aurora. artwork should display. u can also add backgrounds etc if you like while using editor.
apparently it works already for some long time. I wish youtube was working. Fake live does not help caused by network error caused by the live blocks. I think all the other apps are patchable but i dont know if its possible. The trainer builders or HEX Editors may know what to do and maybe a Dev Kit would help.
found the title update enclosed with the download. cheers! also my main folder (3000blah) was inside a main folder (3000blah) so i took it out of the folder so the heirachy is one less folder too. and i put it on the flash drive instead of hard drive (still on hard drive though) but mostly I copied the titleupdate to my cache folder inside hdd and then started netflix (without installing update on accident) but it worked. going to install the update corretly to avoid problems.
idea? wonder how difficult it would be for developer to clone netflix or use their files as a blueprint to get other streaming services (homebrew app) to work, i was thinking of popcorn time which is basically like netflix but it uses torrents, so yeah that sounds difficult as f...
personally, if i ever use my 360 for media its usually just a quick movie (dont want to use it too much for non gaming when i have so many other ways to use my media) i do enjoy the built in streaming using the stock video player though. streams from my hds connected to my pcs. my collection is more than netflix, but netflix is all new content too. i prefer the older stuff but the kids will love netflix, too bad ill make them watch on chromecast or pc or phone or netbook or tablet or laptop or psp (not sure if my modpsp can dont think so, got a new 1 month ago been years since i had one, side note get urself a 3ds also, both of those and a phone/netbook and your covered) but yeah im a collector and this looks beautiful inside auroras cover flow.
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