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This was detailed in the Kotaku video.

The one on the left is the “View” button. The one on the right is the “Menu” button. Both are app or game-specific, so expect them to act the same as you might expect “Select” and “Start” buttons to, respectively. (The example in the video was that “View” might let you access an inventory in an RPG, and “Menu” would take you to the pause menu.)

I think the new names make quite a bit more sense.

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Yeah, I was pretty startled by that one. Live TV on the Xbox is something I’m pretty excited about.

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Hold your horses. You know there’ll be plenty more at E3.

On that note, I would have liked to have seen more of the media integration stuff, knowing that we might not get too much info on it in the near future.

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This does seem to make more sense. I think part of Microsoft’s rationale in leaving out a cable tuner was a shift towards IPTV services. Something like the rumored Intel service would fit perfectly here.

4 days ago on Live TV on the Xbox One: Microsoft learns nothing from Google TV's mistakes

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The tuner would take up space and make the device cost a great deal more money. And it would still only support a subset of TV providers.

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Are there any GUI-less HDMI-outputting CableCard tuners?

If so, that just about solves the problem. If not, I wouldn’t be too surprised to see such a thing come about soon.

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So, Hangouts is pretty much Skype now, just free-er.

5 days ago on Hangouts is 'the future of Google Voice,' full calling functionality will return to desktop soon

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I would guess it’s still Microsoft Solitaire by a landslide.

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I’m not sure how all the prepaid stuff works, but if it’s a new postpaid plan, the old price of unlimited voice/text just became the base plan. You’re still paying the same price for the service; you just don’t have the option to opt out of text messaging anymore.

9 days ago on Pick your poison: messaging will be fragmented, expensive, or locked-in 1 reply