Microsoft Xbox Takes on Apple, Google With Smart TV

“People have been talking about smart TV for a long time, but this could be the first machine to really do it. Smart TV is something that a lot of companies are trying to get into and they have not been able to do it successfully yet.”

For years, the holy grail of the technology industry has been an all-in-one entertainment hub that includes TV and will sit proudly at the heart of the living room. The Xbox One will allow users to watch live TV from a cable or satellite set-top box through the console, although the service will only be available to the U.S. at first.

Steve Jobs famously envisaged TV as the “fourth leg” of his Apple empire, back in 2007, and speculation has been rife that an Apple product could be released this year. Google TV came into existence three years ago, but has failed to gain mass market appeal, despite several different hardware launches.

“All these people are just chasing the ghost of Steve Jobs, because he told them he was going to do TV next, and TV is dead so I don’t know what they are doing,” Bluford Putnam, a chief economist at CME Group, told CNBC on Wednesday

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