FranticPea wrote:I thought you could do that on PS4? Hand over control?
regmcfly wrote:Whoa well colour me surprised. Must have been a banger of a feature.
https://www.playstation.com/en-gb/explore/ps4/features/share-play/
LivDiv wrote:The Xbox thing dosnt work with Virgin. You can pass through (which I do to save a TV HDMi) but you dont get the guide or anything. I believe it only really worked in America.
EvilRedEye wrote:The rooftop party functionality of Switch never seemed to pan out.
EvilRedEye wrote:The rooftop party functionality of Switch never seemed to pan out.
poprock wrote:LivDiv wrote:The Xbox thing dosnt work with Virgin. You can pass through (which I do to save a TV HDMi) but you dont get the guide or anything. I believe it only really worked in America.
Yep. The Xbox TV stuff was amazing, the OneGuide was the best attempt yet at a proper user interface for TV etc. Unfortunately it only worked properly in America because it was designed to work with the US cable TV system, which doesn’t really translate to the UK.
I bought the TV aerial adaptor to at least get Freeview up and running on it, but it never really worked. The idea was that you could open the OneGuide and navigate by show – whether that was live on Channel 4, on catchup from the iPlayer, streaming from Netflix, or whatever. Everything would be presented in one place. You could subscribe to a show, record a movie for later, set up party chats to watch something at the same time as your mates, and so on.
In theory it was great, but could only work if integrated properly (at a corporate level) with Virgin, Sky, and every streaming app. It turned into a logistical nightmare for Microsoft and they quietly dropped it.
The nearest thing now, I think, is Sky Q’s menu system. But that’s a navigational mess.
b0r1s wrote:The TV thing was never the future anyway. … Can’t see this type of thing ever working unless it became an enforced standard, which is doubtful.
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