![]() ![]() ![]() Much asked for content like Monday Night Football was shown, but Microsoft offered no concrete details on pricing. These were in addition to a blitz of new sports content, including the NBA Game Time League Pass channel, NHL Game Center, and the announcement of 24-hour live content from ESPN, ESPN U, and ESPN 3. It also strengthened its existing partnership with Viacom, announcing a Nickelodeon channel. New Spanish language programming with a Univision partnership and a channel for the cultishly adored Machinima demonstrated the breadth of Microsoft’s audience targeting. Rather than a devoted cable service, the company kept it slow and steady. Microsoft’s television programming expansion wasn’t quite as far reaching as rumors suggested. Its grand strategy for controlling consumers’ media time was three-pronged: More television services, Internet Explorer on the Xbox 360, and Xbox Music. It’d be easy to label Microsoft’s E3 2012 conference as yet another paean to virtual warfare with its loud trailers for Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, Splinter Cell: Blacklisted, and Tomb Raider, but the real conflict at the heart of the Windows company’s corporate strategy for the next twelve months is the war for living room entertainment. If you do not want to let anybody watch something nasty on your TV or keep kids off the web browser, this is how you disable it. Location : Privacy > Change Settings > Customize > Web Browsing > Allowed or Blocked.How to Disable IE or Web browsing on Xbox : You also have an option to delete history of websites you have already visited on Xbox.Choose to use IE in Full screen mode or not.Request for Mobile Web Page : Even though requesting for mobile optimized webpage does not make sense for a device which has TV sized output, in case you are on slow connection, make use of this feature.You can choose to send browsing history to Microsoft to improve products and services.So, its only the external devices that will help it out like your Phone or PC or iPad like devices. Using Keyboard is pain when it comes to IE on Xbox like entering a website name on the address bar. If you have a SmartGlass App on your phone or tablet, you can use it as alternative to controller to navigate, use the touch as mouse and tap to select. Left and Right Trigger : Hover the mouse pointer over any area and press RT to zoom in and let to zoom out.Left + Right Bumper : (Favourites Alt + Tab ) Bring the favourites list with preview. Use left and right bumper to navigate left and right and then select any webpage in the list.Left Stick : Move and if you press it, you can do smart zoom useful when you want to see something small or login pages.Button Y : Keyboard when on web hub or bring in the Web Hub when on a web page.It also brings in the small help to display controller option for A and Y. Button B : Go back or Hide Web Hub and switch back to webpage you where on.Button A : Select or Enter or Return button.When you are in favourite section, you can hover the mouse over the site name and tap on X which will give you the following option : ![]() It is also possible to edit website name of the pages you have bookmarked or added to favourite. Managing Bookmarked or Favourite Websites Favourite gives you access to bookmarked sites, Recent for recently visited websites and Featured is section where Xbox recommends some websites you can check out. Right in the middle of the Web Hub you have three sections. ![]() This is more like an extra layer on top of any webpage which gives you access to menu options, address bar, buttons to add website to favourite, settings, list of recently visited websites with preview. Once installed, launch it and you should be viewing the Web Hub, explained next. It should be pre-installed if you have the update but in case it’s not, Visit the App section which will have the Big Blue Tile with E, selecting which will download the app for you. The worst thing about IE is that you need a gold membership to use it. Finally a browser has come to your TV and if you had not liked browsing through your smart tv and Xbox had always been your priority, you will be happy about IE coming to Xbox and yes it works as good as IE on Windows 8 we had been using. ![]()
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