Xbox Brings More Entertainment To Australia
Xbox Australia has announced that OneGuide has entered a public preview of OneGuide in Australia, enabling Xbox One users to experience premium live TV features on Xbox One. OneGuide provides an enhanced TV watching experience, enabling the combination of live, free-to-air, television with apps and other great features of the Xbox One.
In order to use some of the TV features that the Xbox One provides, you will need to get a hold of the Xbox One TV Adaptor, which will be in stores this March.
Some key features of OneGuide include:
- Favourite Channels in OneGuide: Create your own personal favourites in OneGuide so you can more quickly choose what you want to watch.
- Channel Tuning by Voice: OneGuide allows you to call out your favourite TV channel by name and start watching it instantly.
- TV Listings in the OneGuide: Navigate TV listings using the controller or with Kinect Voice* control – e.g. say “Xbox show guide, what’s on Channel 7?” – to quickly navigate directly to that channel’s listings for free-to-air TV. Listings are available in both full screen and mini-guide, with the option of parental controls.
- TV Playback in Snap Mode: You can now watch TV using the Snap mode, watching TV on the side and leaving the main screen for games, Skype, or other applications.
- OneGuide on SmartGlass: You will have access to the OneGuide listings on the new Xbox One SmartGlass Beta app with the ability to change channels on your TV. You can download this app from the marketplace or store on your mobile device.
- TV On Demand: TV listings in OneGuide will indicate which shows are available on demand from video apps.
As part of Xbox’s commitment to bring more entertainment features to the Xbox One for consumers, Xbox Australia will be launching the Xbox One Digital TV Tuner in March 2015.
Luke Henderson