On gameinformer podcast one of the developers said that for hundred dollars not only do you get early access but you also will get free full game and free downloadable content that they ever release in the future. Not a bad deal if you are a hardcore fan.

@Dreams-Visions: I hope they fix it the way AV receivers and speakers were meant to be used. I did not pay a lot of money for good receiver and speakers just for it to be handicapped by xbox one. If that will be the case then xbox one will never be center entertainment system of people's living room.

Just like i would never buy my receiver if it could not keep up with my speakers or my high end tv.

I have pioneer 1021k receiver as well with 7.1 set up. Sound did degrade big time. I hope Microsoft fixes that sooner then later. TV entertainment part was one of the biggest selling points of Xbox one!

As I said before. When xbox 360 first came out lot of people started to report that they are getting red rings of death. There were a lot of people saying "my works fine, you must of done something for it to get red rings of death". At first people were blaming over heated 360s on users when in reality it was MS who screwed up and admitted the problem later on. Just because everything works fine for you does not mean problem does not exist!!! Fact of the matter is a lot of people do notice picture degradation and along with sound degradation (TheVerge review pointed that out as well). My friend and co workers have the same problem!

If I wanted just to play games i would of just got ps4. I paid extra 100 dollars for xbox one for entertainment purpose. I expect it to work just like MS advertised it would. Sound & picture degradation is a huge deal!

MS had to know that a lot of people have AV receivers with surround sound. I am shocked that surround sound does not work when watching tv. Some things need to work perfect right away if MS expects people to recommend it to others. Even when im playing nba 2k14 (which looks amazing) back speakers sound like crap compared to when I play ps4 games.

It's like buying a phone that drops calls every 2nd or 3rd time and has static sound when you finally are able to call someone. No one would recommend that phone to friends or family!

@noobslaya1993: one the biggest let downs for me about xbox one is how stingy MS acted towards day one buyer's. Stinky card that says Thank you you for being loyal costumer and day one buyer here is our way to thank you with 14 day free Xbox live. Lol what a damn joke and insult.

Sony offered way more (30 days free psn and 10 dollar store credit) and it's cheaper system on top of it. People also had a chance to buy two games get one free. For now Playstation just screams better value!

@xhawk27: If direct tv is my problem then how do you explain my friend who has the same exact issue running his xbox one through U-Verse cable box.

I'm confused.

Lems say- games don't need to be 1080p to look good. After all battlefield on ps4 is only 900p and it still looks damn good and so does Ryse son of Rome.

Cows say - if game is 1080p then immediately it must be beautiful game and then at the same time turn around and bash forza5 which is 1080p and runs at 60 fps.

By default isn't that admitng that any game on any system running at 1080p can look worst nex to some lower resolution games.

I own forza,battlefield ,killzone and rented ryse along with nba2k14. They all look great . Not one game made another look like a WII game.

@AM-Gamer: because lot of my friends own Xbox One. Plus I'm not one of those people that care if game on one system looks slightly better. If you need to pause and find the difference then it's not a issues for me.

@enviouseyezonme: Game mode is off.

I have my brother in law and my sister stopping by today. I will see what they have to say regarding the picture. One thing my wife and I noticed. Kinect responds little better today compared to yesterday. It understands little more and is little faster but at the same time we are still having issues repeating ourselves 5 times for some commands , example; for skype to call one of my friends.

@shawn30: I don't really know how to respond to your post. I can only go by my own's family experience, my friends family experience and TheVerge review. I even called xbox support to see if i connected something wrong. Maybe im noticing big difference is because my tv is 60 inch. UN60d8000 does show very nice picture so if there is picture quality change believe me you will see it. Very easy to notice things with HIGH END TV's.

On separate note. Take any product that had big issues (xbox360) for every 20 people who had their xbox360 fail due to red rings of death there were 50 more people telling them "my works fine, you must of done something wrong for it to fail".

I want MS to succeed as much as i want sony to succeed (i own both) but as it stands there is no way i can recommend xbox to anyone who want's to buy it for tv entreatment purpose.

If you play mostly multi platform games and you dont care about exclusives and you can only buy one system. There is no way i can recommend xbox over ps4. If we only speaking game wise then ps4 is a no brainer. The only reason i wanted xbox is because i believed in Microsoft hype on what the machine can do and i was willing to pay extra money to have it. Now since entertainment part is out of the window my question to Microsoft is, why am i paying extra 100 dollars again??!

I believe that word of mouth is the true system seller. when something works its easy to recommend it to 5 people and those 5 people recommend it to 5 more people and so on. At the same time when something does not work it has the same negative affect.

As I said before. I am stil keeping my xbox one (my daughter loves forza) i also like some MS exclusives. And maybe few months down the road Microsoft will fix all this issues and it will be all forgotten.

I was one of the first galaxy s4 buyers. Wifi at my work did not work for anyone who owned galaxy s4 (samsung admitted there were some wifi issues on their end). i decided to give samsung a chance hopping they would fix the issue and they did 2 months later. I am willing to wait and see if things are fixed. It's just that i am not willing to recommend it over ps4 at this point as things stand.

Until MS fixes those issues i will be buying all my multi platform games on ps4 instead of xbox. Last gen all my multi platform games were on 360.

@PSdual_wielder: Here is TheVerge website talking about the same issue. Scroll to the middle where they talk about picture degradation as well.

http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/20/5117320/microsoft-xbox-one-review