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Welcome. I decided to make this blog after being a Xbox Ambassador for a number of years.

If you don't know an Ambassador is a Volunteer that Microsoft uses to help ease the load on the actual hard working support people.

I noticed that alot of the questions I would get could easily be solved by using Microsofts Xbox.com site.

Since some of the help articles may be hard to find, understand or the issue may be called something different in the gaming community making it more difficult to solve, I've decided to make this blog to make it easier for fellow gamers to get xbox assistance, news and all things Xbox.

If you have any Xbox related question you can find the answer to feel free to contact me on YouTube, twitter or in the comments.

Friday, August 7, 2015

NEWS: To use Xbox One's DVR function you'll need a new external drive

Now we know why Xbox and Seagate have just announced an official, green-skinned external hard drive for the chunky console - you need to have a new drive to be able to use the upcoming DVR functionality.

Microsoft announced the new feature this week at its Gamescom event, trailing a subscription-free service that will allow you to record free-to-air content via your Xbox One.



Unfortunately it wont allow you to record that content onto the console's main storage drive.


Richard Irving, project lead on the new Dashboard redesign, is reported as saying "you need an external hard-drive specifically for DVR because we want to keep the paths optimised between playing games and watching TV."


That makes sense as from the initial presentation the DVR functionality was presented as something that would in no way interfere with your gaming.

You should theoretically be able to pause you game, quickly set the box to record a show and return to your game without the recording process causing any problems.

"We don't want them to interact with each other," says Irving.

The service is designed to record up to 1080i and will allow you to stream and transfer recorded shows onto Windows 10 devices on the same home network.

That means you can record on your Xbox One, then transfer out to your Windows 10 tablet or phone and take it with you on the go.

At the moment Microsoft is saying that will only be compatible with a device running a version of the Windows 10 OS via the Xbox app, so it will be interesting to see if it changes it's mind (it's happened before…) and brings the functionality to Android or iOS devices in the future.

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