Xbox One Gets Media Remote

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 02/13/2014 09:44 AM | source: | 6 comment(s)

HTPC and Mediacenter afficionados attention please. Microsoft is adding a new device called the Xbox One Media remote as another input and navigation option. The remote was seen on Amazon Canada, but quickly pulled. Thankfully there’s a cached page floating around the interwebs. In it we see that the Xbox One Media Remote is expected to come around March 4, 2014.

The device will presumably go up for pre-order sometime between now and then. It’ll retail for CDN $24.99 (which is about $22.70 USD).

There’s no description on the page of what the Xbox One Media Remote does, but we probably don’t have to stretch our imaginations too much to figure out what this does. The Xbox 360 already has acomparable media remote that allows you to control the Xbox 360’s dashboard, DVD, CD, and media playback. It’s also useful for navigating and controlling the media functions of other apps like Netflix, HBOGO (please come to Xbox One already!), Hulu Plus, ESPN and others. We’re going to go out on a limb and say the Xbox One Media Remote will be very similar in functionality.

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#4764816 Posted on: 02/13/2014 09:46 AM

I guess my concole buddies will dig this, damn I wish everyone was on a steam machine instead. with m /kb hell yes.

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#4764885 Posted on: 02/13/2014 11:15 AM

I had the remote for both the original xbox (rip) and the 360, never used them tbh, was just easier to continue using the controller.

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#4765247 Posted on: 02/13/2014 08:05 PM

I guess my concole buddies will dig this, damn I wish everyone was on a steam machine instead. with m /kb hell yes.

Most already have them its called a PC.

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#4765251 Posted on: 02/13/2014 08:14 PM

$22-25 for that?! With all the TV TV TV non-sense they did I'm surprised this cheap looking remote wasn't part of the basic bundle.

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#4765274 Posted on: 02/13/2014 08:53 PM

The 360 remote was utter garbage, it had a range of about 2ft and would have to be pointed directly at the console. With no media center either wtf is the point of this? Heres to hoping they are planning on bringing back the media center extender features. I still cant believe how much this generation console has regressed

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