So this seemed a little too big not to get its own thread. Apparently it was slipped that the Xbox TV features will only work in the US and Japan at launch, with support for other countries coming further down the line. Way further.
http://m.ign.com/articles/2013/09/20/tgs-microsoft-on-its-vision-for-xbox-one
http://m.ign.com/articles/2013/09/20/tgs-microsoft-on-its-vision-for-xbox-one
TV, if you want to continue, would be another criticism. We talk a lot about TV and that's only going to work basically in Japan and the U.S. at launch where you have HDMI-in scenarios, so you'll say 'hey, what if I have a terrestrial over the air?' We won't have a solution for that right away, but we still sell it as part of the vision. So it's honest criticism and you'd love to have the new launch be everything that you had before and more, but unfortunately it's an untenable [proposition].
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But what about the fact that Xbox One won't have the full TV functionality at launch? Penello sees it as a demographic question. It's not going to be us it's not the early adopters that this is a problem [for] - which is why we're not prioritising solving it right off the bat, because the price of the consoles will have to come down like they do in every generation, the market will expand, we'll eventually catch up to the people who are probably laggards in TV, and by that time we'll have a more robust story than we have at launch. So in summary the TV stuff's not really for you, but by the time your mum and dad want a machine it'll totally work.