News - Xbox One TV ad turns on user consoles without permission

[HEXUS]

In the Microsoft advert Breaking Bad's Aaron Paul uses the phrase "Xbox On".

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[Spud1]

Is it a slow news day? Surprised this is a "story".

Of course it will turn the console on if the words "xbox on" are uttered loud enough, thats what it's designed to do. I don't get the big problem with this, its part of the console.

As it happens I've watched the advert on my XBO (as I use the TV pass through feature, one of the best things about the console) and it didn't try to launch Titanfall or do anything I didn't expect, but even if it had it wouldn't exactly be a problem..It's not really something you can prevent without turning off Kinect!

[crossy]

Breaking Bad star Aaron Paul is featured in the TV ad, which runs in the US and the UK.

Oh, THAT'S who it is. Been annoying me for a while, looking at the ad and thinking "what big part are you talking about?"

[valhar2000]

So, what exactly is the story here? Am I missing something, or this news as banal as Spud1 makes it out to be?

[Lee H]

n00bs will be n00bs.

Doesn't anyone train their Kinect at all or what?

We had this with the first iteration of Kinect where if you did the training several times throughout the day for different light levels so it got used to you and that worked better and now people are moaning about their TV etc controlling Kinect.

When training the new kinect it does a lot to stop background stuff affecting it so its kind of obvious whos not ran this correctly or at all

[Spud1]

So, what exactly is the story here? Am I missing something, or this news as banal as Spud1 makes it out to be?

You just taught me a new word there every day is a school day.....!

[Dareos]

pronounced Ban-Al, with the emphasis on the Al, if it was pronounced Bain-al it would mean pretty awesome, possibly involving breaking batmans back...