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| Raised Hands Surround Us Three Nails To Protect Us  |
So the XBOX ONE S is 4K streaming and an actual 4K (not upstreaming) Blu Ray unit. For under $200 plus I can play some games from time to time. How is it for a streaming device. Currently have a couple Roku and Amazon FireTV. XBOX can be controlled with my Harmony remote. Any reason not to get the XBOX or does it suck as a streaming device? ———————————————— The world's not perfect, but it's not that bad. If we got each other, and that's all we have. I will be your brother, and I'll hold your hand. You should know I'll be there for you! | ||
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| 4-H Shooting Sports Instructor  |
My son Streams on his all the time. He has no cable. He is only on Xbox1 .. _______________________________ 'The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but > because he loves what is behind him.' G. K. Chesterton NRA Endowment Life member NRA Pistol instructor...and Range Safety instructor Women On Target Instructor. | |||
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Fighting the good fight |
I stream Netflix, Amazon Prime, HBO, and Youtube all the time on my Xbox One S. It's the media center for my "Man Cave". Games, Blu-Rays, and streaming. | |||
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Not Today |
I stream netflix and Amazon with ours. It's definitely up to task. ________________________ Hi,I'm Buck Melonoma,Moley Russels' wart. | |||
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| Live Slow, Die Whenever  |
Since my xbox one s can connect to my 5ghz router vs only 2.4 for my bluray player, it does stream better/download faster. "I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted, and I won't be laid a hand on. I don't do these things to other people and I require the same from them." - John Wayne in "The Shootist" | |||
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| Laugh or Die |
xbox 1 was built with "media center" in mind. It's one of the reasons it was so unpopular with gamers when it debuted. It's good for that. ________________________________________________ | |||
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No worries! |
The whole reason they named it Xbox One was because it was to function as One thing for everything. Connects your TV, gaming, movies and all your streaming choices in one handy media center. I have basic cable ($10 on top of my internet bill) and run my cable box into the Xbox. Am able to watch all channels through it. Additionally I use the Xbox to stream Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, HBO, NHL, NBC Sports, Fox Sports and more. Also used to have Sling on it but decided to cut that as I wasn't watching it much. So yeah, Xbox One is the perfect system for streaming practically anything you'd want to watch. | |||
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| Raised Hands Surround Us Three Nails To Protect Us |
Any way to get local channels on the XBOX One without cable or satellite? Can I hook an external hard drive up to it to play audio and video?? What formats? FLAC?? ———————————————— The world's not perfect, but it's not that bad. If we got each other, and that's all we have. I will be your brother, and I'll hold your hand. You should know I'll be there for you! | |||
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| Oh stewardess, I speak jive.  |
No FLAC, unless there's been an update I'm unaware of. And there probably will be some video formats it won't play, though it does read mkv now. | |||
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| Fighting the good fight |
Yes. However, the Xbox doesn't have an OTA TV antenna built in, nor the capability to accept a direct coaxial input from an OTA antenna. So you'll need a special digital tuner. http://www.hauppauge.com/site/...cts/data_xboxtv.html Run the OTA TV antenna into that tuner, and then plug the tuner into the HDMI In port on the Xbox. See https://support.xbox.com/en-US...ries/over-the-air-tv
Yes, it has multiple USB ports for external HDs, along with an integrated media player app.
According to https://support.xbox.com/xbox-...ole/media-player-faq :
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| Little ray of sunshine  |
I use mine that way, too. It works well for the purpose. The fish is mute, expressionless. The fish doesn't think because the fish knows everything. | |||
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| Oh stewardess, I speak jive. |
Perfect is a stretch, as there are various codecs it isn't compatible with (FLAC being one). But it does a fair enough job for an off the shelf gaming system. | |||
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You want s good digital antenna and this: http://www.hauppauge.com/site/...cts/data_xboxtv.html ________________________ P229 Stainless Elite P320 X-Five Legion P320 X-Carry | |||
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| Raised Hands Surround Us Three Nails To Protect Us |
I don't know why this did not click on my radar earlier. I will no longer have to have multiple profiles on my harmony remote. Just click XBOX One and run everything from there. Anyone know how WMA Lossless compares to FLAC. Not that I really want to go converting all of my FLAC files. ———————————————— The world's not perfect, but it's not that bad. If we got each other, and that's all we have. I will be your brother, and I'll hold your hand. You should know I'll be there for you! | |||
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