Microsoft partners with Time Warner for new live TV deal

I am going to get a wii u.

I've had Time Warner Cable my whole life & i've never had an issue with it. U ppl must live in the sticks then. You guys live in mountain areas or something cuz cable has always worked for me. As far as this deal goes, what's the point?? If I want to watch cable then I'll switch my input & watch cable. There's no point in having it on your Xbox when your already paying for it in the first place. The only way I c this to be a good thing is if you don't have digital cable & then you get more channels out of it thru Xbox. But other than that I say its pointless.

So many whiners here

probably the dumbest partnership I have even heard of. time warner sort of blows and why would I pay all these nickel and dime fees. I already pay near 100 dollars a month for cable and internet and now im supposed to pay for live. no thanks everything the xbox can do I can do on my pc with no xbox live fees.

time warner sh!ty service microsoft sh!ty products perfect match

Really stupid: for the purpose of WATCHING tv shows, I use T/W; for the purpose of gaming, I use XBox. Now you're saying for the purpose of watching TV on a gaming console, I must have XBoxLive ($60+) and my T/W sub ($60+) to enjoy the WONDERS of watching the same crap throught the XBox -1? On what planet does Microsoft reside on? Console = gaming...give us stuff related to GAMING!!! Really, what's so hard (other than your thick skulls are) about it?

PS4 looking better and better, people!

Microsoft you shouldn't have changed your policies at all. I accept that Region lock and Mandatory internet connection needs to go away. Used games you should have kept the original policy and reduced the new game price by around 10-15$. As you will get lot more profit by charging used games. Now new games can be bought for 60$, You could have shown the gamers real benefit by reducing the price of the new game to sell around 45-50$. Also some real benefit of Kinect by showing some very interesting games. just to prove the worth of Kinect. Your PR should have made it clear that Kinect could be shut off completely, if you don't wish too. Policy reversal of used games was unnecessary. But your whole idea of integrating TV with gaming consoles itself is wrong. Instead of investing on things like T.V. shows, you could have invested on better hardware. Don't waste your money. This is a gaming console first and foremost.

Maybe I'm a luddite, maybe I'm missing something really obvious here...

But it seems that, for the purposes of watching TV through your Xbone, Microsoft want you to buy the console itself, a Gold subscription, requires you to already have a TV, cable box and subscription... Basically, it's "Buy our $500 fancy box and take out another subscription to do the thing you can already do anyway!".

Time Warner sucks. I can't believe MS is doing that.LOL.Their business practices suck.I also remember an article saying that cable companies are trying to stop customers from leaving them for PC T.V. streaming. That to me right there shows how much MS cares for its consumers.Time Warner doesn't care about consumers and MS is the same.I wonder what kind of rates they're dreaming up right now......

Non American don't really care

This is useless unless they let you record live TV.....

If you don't go with comcast or verizon, you're doing it wrong.

Pay for Gold Membership, pay for internet, pay for cable, watch TV on your TV through XBOX ONE connected to your cable box. It just sounds ridiculous.

I got rid of Time Warned 2 years ago, NEVER going back to that misery.

if there was an award for the worst sarcasm detector, you'd win hands down. i hope you weren't serious.

Just what I don't need more TV

Make the Xbox One an actual cable box than I will be interested. I don't like how Microsoft is marketing it as an all in one but you need a cable box for the Xbox One to do what a cable box does. That is just absurd.

strangely my TV with Fios (100x better than time warner) works fine with using my 360. Imagine that..