For $60, you get a USB dongle that connects to the coaxial cable from an antenna on one end and plugs into your console on the other, a short USB extension cable, and a small antenna that runs five feet from your Xbox One and promises 10 miles of antenna coverage. The non-amplified 10-mile antenna might not be very powerful (it got the same 30 channels my old $10 RCA ANT111F used to pull in), but I was impressed with the unassuming design. It basically looks like an upright pen resting on a base, so it didn't clash with the rest of my entertainment system like old-school or amplified antennas would.
Setup is very simple. After you plug your antenna in via USB, you'll be prompted to have the Xbox One scan for channels and choose whether you want to dedicate 4GB of the system's data to allow the ability to pause TV. Once you’ve completed that process, you can start watching broadcast TV right away, and with some extra perks you wouldn’t get if you were watching with the antenna plugged directly into most TVs.
The biggest and most obvious one is being able to use Xbox One’s OneGuide feature, which lets you pull up TV listings at any time. The ability to tag certain channels as favorites is also welcome, especially during prime-time. And surprisingly, the option to look up programming that’s currently trending on Twitter (so long as your Xbox One’s connected to the internet) is a great way to learn about live events you might not otherwise know about.
The trending section was where I discovered in-progress live sports games, which are coincidentally the best use of the pausing feature. Since the Xbox One can only store a half-hour's worth of video, it's best used to pause while doing other things and skipping commercial breaks, particularly because once you change the channel, that buffer is gone. (Incidentally, this can become an issue when you inadvertently change the channel, as I did many times due to the not-ideal nature of navigating TV listings with a video game controller. A warning prompt to help prevent this problem would have been welcome.)
The only killer feature that’s still missing is the ability to record programming you're not watching live (though it’s been rumored that Xbox One may support that in the future). That missing option unfortunately reduces the TV tuner’s usefulness, since there are over-the-air DVRs available for far less than the cost of the Xbox One alone.