With most living rooms, your game console and your cable box are plugged into separate inputs on your TV. Microsoft is trying to change that with the Xbox One — your cable box plugs into your console, which in turn plugs into the main input on your TV. By essentially hijacking your TV, Microsoft can keep the Xbox One interface in front of you all the time. It's a clever idea and an ambitious, but it's also fundamentally a hack. Nilay Patel reports.
Xbox One revives the war for TV
Xbox One revives the war for TV
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