The majority of us have some pretty negative memories of the Xbox One reveal and its overreliance on TV-based features, but there were some cool aspects to that integration, and Xbox OneGuide was a notable example.
Sadly though, this month marks the end of an era - as part of the May 2021 Xbox update, the core 'TV Listings' feature of OneGuide has been permanently discontinued, so that feature will no longer be available on Xbox One.
"Live TV listings for OneGuide on Xbox One have been discontinued. You can continue to use OneGuide to view your connected HDMI devices or USB TV tuner."
Fortunately, as noted above, OneGuide isn't going to be entirely inaccessible moving forward - you'll still be able to use connected HDMI devices or the USB TV tuner with it - you just won't get access to those listings anymore.
OneGuide isn't the only TV-based latency feature that has been discontinued on Xbox One over the years, as the famous Snap feature was removed back in 2017 to "free up resources going forward for bigger things."
Sad to see TV listings being removed from OneDrive on Xbox One? Let us know down in the comments.
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I don't think I ever once used that
I've had an X1X since 2018 and I didn't even realize they still had the TV listings! One more step toward erasing the memory of E3 2013!
"OneGuide isn't the only TV-based latency feature that has been discontinued on Xbox One over the years"
Legacy feature?
That said, this kind of bums me out. Didn't know they were EOLing it. For that matter, I didn't realize it was anything other then the Xbox just parsing information from your TV provider. Seems like with this news it was something, server based, on Microsoft side.
Believe it or not I was planning on putting the One, I replaced with a Series X, in the bedroom as a TV box. Was actually planning on making use of this.
@Snake_V5 That was a LOOOONG 100 seconds. Painful.
That's a shame, I used this feature all the time on my Xbox One. It's an awesome feature to have, I could just turn on the hockey or basketball game with the flick of a button on my controller.. I will miss this feature since i was using it for years, It was really convenient..
I had the USB TV tuner on my Xbox One and used it fairly regularly. I was disappointed that it wasn’t carried over to the Series X, but after six months I’ve realised that I don’t particularly miss it now. That may be more to do with the fact that I rarely watch live TV anymore, and when I do it’s something like Sky Sports with in I get though the NowTV app.
@themightyant @Snake_V5 "Xbox is about to become the next water cooler"
Not exactly what gamers meant when they demanded liquid cooling in their rig.
That clip is so funny since it even had Phil up there talking about TV. At the time he was the head of game studios..... why did they even have the head of 1st party development on stage talking about hardware and OS TV features?! It's like putting John Carmack on stage to talk about Facebook video embeds. LOL
One less useful feature on the XBox. I used Oneguide with my USB tuner at least once a week. A shame all the non-game features are slowly being stripped away - I use my XBox far more as a media device than a game system.
At least KODI for X1 is slowly getting better.
@InterceptorAlpha
It really bums me out because I used the feature on a regular basis. It really made being cable TV-free a lot easier.
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