DVR capabilities are on their way to Xbox One

Although the Xbox One is undoubtedly a games console at heart, Microsoft wants it to be so much more. It's part of the reason for the blurring of boundaries between Windows 10 on the desktop and the Xbox One's version of the operating system, and there are already a number of media center features to be found. But things are on the verge of improving. A lot.

It's one thing to be able to watch OTA TV broadcasts on your console, but we've all become used to the notion of time-shifted viewing. DVR functionality -- the ability to pause and record shows as they are broadcast -- has been promised for some time, and now it's undergoing internal testing at Microsoft, strongly suggesting that a public release is not too far away.

Paul Thurrott reports that Microsoft is internally testing DVR capabilities, but this should not really come as a huge surprise. In fact, it had widely been expected that the feature would have been implemented by the end of last year. It's not clear what caused the delay, but it would appear that work is now progressing once again.

Microsoft has already made it clear that in order to record TV shows you'll have to have an external hard drive connected to your console. This make sense as the internal storage is best left for games, and can easily be filled up even if you've opted for the 1TB version of the console.

Watch this space for news about when a preview is made available.

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