Spork3245

I have Cortana disabled and still use the OG commands. Cortana is made to compete with Alexa for home integration/control so I still have no idea how the comparison could possibly be “silly” when Cortana was made to be compared to Alexa/Siri/Google Home Assistant and the original Kinect commands were basically just a beta version of Cortana.

It’s not a silly comparison at all. The cube is literally made to do the same thing the One’s Kinect already did and does, it just also integrates with Alexa. The reviews for the cube speak solely about the TV functionality and is the only thing being gushed over.

Is this an Onion article? Fake news?

I think the most amazing thing about all this is the fact that people bitched and moaned about the TV/device control for the Xbone to the point that MS rolled down to just basic support (which is still more efficient than using a remote control), but now Amazon does the same thing with the Fire Cube and reviewers/people are gushing over it claiming it’s one of the “best innovations for device control ever”... when MS literally had the same “innovation” 5 years ago.

Check that link, you have several 4k channels available, as well as UFC Fights, MLB, concerts, etc. I really cannot understand the omission considering their hype that the X is “the” 4k console. The addition of an HDMI 2.0 compliant input would be pennies more and make the console “fully” 4k.

DirectTV supports 4k HDR content, I believe The World Cup was broadcast in 4k. https://support.directv.com/dtv-programming/4k-events Honestly, it’s more about when on demand begins to stream movies/whatever in 4k HDR. It’s likely going to be awhile before any network films or broadcasts in 4k, but movie streaming on demand in 4k is “later this year”.

Then why keep the HDMI in? The HDMI in was/is actually popular and commonly used on the Xbone, the Kinect was not.

Got a 4k TV (finally). I like using my Xbone to control my cable box and use the HDMI-In that the One X has. Noticed that my cable box still says that the max output resolution is 1080p. I do some searching and see that the box I have definitely is 2160p capable, figure I’ve been using an old v1.4 cable and swap it out, still 1080p max. Plug the cable box directly into my AV Receiver, now 2160p is available, back into the XboneX, and back down to a max of 1080p. That’s when I decided to google... and apparently MS made this 4k console but left the HDMI-in incapable of 4k and HDR pass through with an old HDMI version. Granted, there are few live broadcasts available in 4k (occasionally sports events and things), but my cable box supports several apps which stream 4k HDR content and supposedly 4k HDR content is coming to on demand “soon”. It’s more annoying than anything, but WTF MS?

GDP Win @stepee

Noooooope

Yea, watched an HDR YouTube clip, the highlights around enemies in the info-mode or whatever look way better in HDR with Horizon

Sad.

I’m realizing that there are only a handful of actual 4k/HDR videos on YouTube. Plenty of 4k, but barely any that actually enable HDR-mode on the TV (despite tons claiming to be HDR).

I think this may be the first year that I didn’t purchase anything

FueherD

Movies seem to look great. Games... even when I figured out GoW, I’m not sure I really noticed the difference - I mean, there was a difference, but I think it was more from being rendered in 4k vs the previous super sampled 1080p I was playing in. Forza 7 had no difference either, maybe during replays there was a tiny difference.

I can confirm that there’s no discernible difference during gameplay with Forza 7 in HDR.

The “Dolby Experience” app is amazing for demos. Check out the “Great Wall” Dolby Vision trailer. My god.

I think turning off “device control” in the PS4’s settings fixed it... maybe?

I believe the ARC on my receiver is just the zone 1 HDMI out. (Dennon x3400H)

The PS4 thing is driving me nuts. Any time I exit a TV-app it switches the receiver input to the PS4 and turns it on. Input one is CBL/Sat which is what I have my XboneX plugged into, BD Player (PS4) is #3 so this makes no sense why it keeps trying to default to the third input.

Yep! Oooone more thing, though. On my previous TV, when switching to one of the built-in apps or using a USB stick, it would automatically switch my receiver to the input I have set for the optical out and then switch back to the previous input when exiting. However, this TV seems to constantly want to switch the input at random, it also keeps turning on my PS4 for some reason. When exiting an app it also just seems to stay in wrong input instead of switching back. What’s going on here?

JFC WHY IS THAT HIDDEN UNDER “SCREEN CALIBRATION”?!?!?

Yea, it does not say HDR like it does when the XboneX is playing HDR content. In the settings for my PS4, under video output, it does say that HDR is available and is listed as one of the output methods, but it’s not actually doing it for some reason. It does say HDR in the corner when the game starts up, though, which is so weird.