I know very well I'm not the only one who would adore the idea of being able to combine the power of Tivo into my Xbox. A recent story on Neowin pinned this in exactly the right light: TV done right could easily be Microsoft's coup de gras for the taking. It's rather disappointing in more ways than one, and I'm personally a bit confused as to why Microsoft settled on such a lackluster approach to Xbox One's TV capabilities. But my lofty plans for a simplified entertainment center were quickly killed, when I learned that Microsoft had no plans on replacing your DVR, but merely piggybacking onto it. When I first heard about Microsoft's Xbox One plans at E3, I was thinking the same thing so many others probably were: my Tivo (or cable box) days are numbered. Project Scorpio, which will have 6 teraflops of compute power, will launch in time for the Holiday 2017 shopping season and is sure to be a hot-ticket item.Aside from a lack of backwards compatibility with Xbox 360 games (which is being worked on as I write this), what's the other big reason I am holding off on a first gen Xbox One? A TV streaming & DVR experience that was much talked about in the buildup to launch, but has fallen short in reinventing the way we manage and consume TV content today. The console will employ Shader Model 6 and dynamic scaling to improve system efficiency and hence performance at 1080p. We learned earlier this week that Project Scorpio, while directly aimed at those with 4K televisions, will also feature some performance benefits for the majority of us out there that still have 1080p televisions.

In other Project Scorpio news, Windows Central also indicates that its sources confirm an internal power supply for Project Scorpio, which mirrors a move made on the Xbox One S (the original Xbox One used a huge external power brick). When all is said and done, Project Scorpio is expected to deliver 4K games, 4K encoding/decoding and 4K Blu-ray playback (something that the PlayStation 4 Pro surprisingly does not bring to the table). Current Xbox One/Xbox One S consoles are limited to 720p/30fps for the Game DVR, whereas Project Scorpio ups the ante with 4K at 60 fps.

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