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The trending section was where I discovered in-progress live sports games, which are coincidentally the best use of the pausing feature.

And surprisingly, the option to look up programming that’s currently trending on Twitter (so long as your Xbox One’s connected to the internet) is a great way to learn about live events you might not otherwise know about. The ability to tag certain channels as favorites is also welcome, especially during prime-time. The biggest and most obvious one is being able to use Xbox One’s OneGuide feature, which lets you pull up TV listings at any time. Once you’ve completed that process, you can start watching broadcast TV right away, and with some extra perks you wouldn’t get if you were watching with the antenna plugged directly into most TVs. After you plug your antenna in via USB, you'll be prompted to have the Xbox One scan for channels and choose whether you want to dedicate 4GB of the system's data to allow the ability to pause TV.

It basically looks like an upright pen resting on a base, so it didn't clash with the rest of my entertainment system like old-school or amplified antennas would. The non-amplified 10-mile antenna might not be very powerful (it got the same 30 channels my old $10 RCA ANT111F used to pull in), but I was impressed with the unassuming design. Now there’s a TV tuner for Xbox One owners in the US and Canada-but while it opens up access to dozens of over-the-air public access, shopping, foreign-language, and major broadcast networks that you can watch, the Xbox One itself limits its usefulness.įor $60, you get a USB dongle that connects to the coaxial cable from an antenna on one end and plugs into your console on the other, a short USB extension cable, and a small antenna that runs five feet from your Xbox One and promises 10 miles of antenna coverage.

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Unless you lived in Europe and could use the digital TV tuner accessory, it's been slim pickings when it came to free content. Sure, Xbox One’s collection of apps offers live sports, on-demand movies, and top TV shows, but most come with subscription fees.

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