{"id":30074,"date":"2012-01-04T11:14:58","date_gmt":"2012-01-04T09:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=30074"},"modified":"2012-01-04T11:20:57","modified_gmt":"2012-01-04T09:20:57","slug":"rumour-control-next-xbox-is-also-a-dvr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/30074-rumour-control-next-xbox-is-also-a-dvr","title":{"rendered":"Rumour Control: Next Xbox is also a DVR"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hey! It’s the fourth day of 2012 and we haven’t published a “next-gen” console rumour ye- ah, damn. There goes that new year’s resolution.<\/p>\n

Many are pegging 2012 as the year the next generation of consoles gets their big fanfare (with some people even anticipating a 2012 next-gen release from Sony<\/a> and\/or Microsoft<\/a> *scoffs*) – but no matter what happens, the rumours will continue to fly about until the official unveiling(s).<\/p>\n

In this edition of “Nextbox” – Microsoft has been granted a patent over in the US for a device that would serve as both a games console and a digital video recorder (DVR).<\/p>\n

Mayhaps this is more legit than it is rumour?<\/p>\n

According to the Kotaku report, the patent was applied for way back in 2007, so it may not be something entirely new – but with the Xbox<\/a>‘s obvious move towards home entertainment streaming in the last dashboard update (most of which is useless to use here in South Africa anyway) – turning their next console into a “does it all” box of media management is looking very likely.<\/p>\n

Of course, maybe Microsoft had forgotten all about it and were just as surprised as the rest of us when the patent grant came in.<\/p>\n

“DVR consoles? That’s soooooo 2007.”<\/p>\n

Or, if you recall Sony’s PSX<\/a>, which sold so badly that it never left Japan, that’s soooo 2003.<\/p>\n

Source: Kotaku <\/a><\/h5>\n
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Sony's hipster PSX: doing DVR before it was popular<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Patents indicate Microsoft’s next will have digital video recording capabilities<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":167,"featured_media":27691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[1785,91,791,71,79],"class_list":["post-30074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-xbox","tag-dvr","tag-microsoft","tag-next-gen","tag-sony","tag-xbox-360"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30074"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30077,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30074\/revisions\/30077"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}