Microsoft to Add Over-the-Air DVR Support to Xbox One

Current TV offerings like EE TV now allow users to record and view live TV on up to 4 devices streamed across the home network.

Roll on November when backwards compatibility is live for all, but until then it looks like only those in the Preview Program will get to enjoy four free games a month on Xbox One.

Other announcements made during the Xbox Briefing include the release of the latest Halo 5-themed Xbox One console as well as Backwards Compatibility for all the upcoming Games with Gold titles. Alternatively you can just wait for the end of October and pick up a copy of Halo 5 all by itself if you’re not swayed or lured by the temptation of a custom livery Xbox One console and some matching game controllers.

The Limited Edition Halo 5 Xbox One console is priced at $499 and is now available for pre-order.

Microsoft and Sony have identified with the problem and have been introducing consoles Even though modern consoles ship with at least 500GB of storage, you only have to install a small number of digital games before your internal disk is full. According to the world’s largest software maker, the digital video-recording capabilities will come to Xbox One in 2016, allowing gamers to record television that feeds through the console by using their over-the-air digital tuners and an external hard drive. Today, it confirmed the feature will appear in November.

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A Microsoft spokesperson confirms you’ll only be able to record TV if you have an external hard drive.

Microsoft also unleashed the Xbox One chat pad, which is identical to its Xbox 360. The feature will launch with support for over 100 Xbox 360 titles, and they claim that there are “hundreds more on the way”.

Unlike its predecessor, it has two programmable buttons at the bottom.

Tsunoda said that once the company figures out how it can bring PC and Xbox gamers together with cross-play, “we’re going to put that into our platform to make it simple and easy for other developers to do as soon as possible”.

This comes after the news that split-screen multiplayer, a staple of the Halo games series, won’t be back in Halo 5.