Microsoft’s Windows 10 and Xbox One platform announcement Tuesday at Gamescom in Cologne, Germany, would make it easy to get swept up in the major games revealed or their cross-platform potential, but for a cord cutter like me, it took a 90-second part of that announcement to drown everything else out.

The company’s upcoming full, over the air DVR functionality makes a compelling case for the Xbox One to become a cord cutter’s dream — the one box to rule them all.

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The biggest obstacle in a cord-cutter’s way is finding a single box to do everything you want — watch live TV, stream content from existing companies (Netflix) and offline from a home server, plus the kind of DVR functionality cable consumers often take for granted.

Most devices can only do one or two things well, unless you’re willing to build a home theater PC, install a TV Tuner card and hook that PC up to your television. It’s possible, but a daunting proposition for those just looking to cut their cable bill and keep as much convenience as possible.

The biggest obstacle in a cord-cutter’s way is finding a single box to do everything you want …

The Xbox One already is a juggernaut for cord cutters. It offers a broad spectrum of streaming apps (Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, Sling TV, etc.), the ability to stream local content from home servers or networked hard drives, and the power to watch live TV with a full TV guide via its USB tuner available in the U.S., Canada and Europe.

Adding DVR functionality would be enough for most to crown the Xbox One the leading cord cutting machine, but letting users stream recorded shows to Windows, iOS and Android devices and allowing downloads of recordings to Windows 10 devices makes the One a no-brainer for most people.

Two lingering questions remain:

Cost: The XBox One isn’t cheap. It’s roughly $350 for the console, another $60 for the USB tuner and another $50 for the external hard drive to record shows. That may scare some away.

Solo Tuner: The fact that Xbox One as of now only supports a single tuner means that you won’t be able to record one show and watch another at the same time. I wouldn’t be surprised to see a dual-tuner option released by the time the official 2016 product launch happens, but it can be a concern.

If you’re looking for a central device to play games and fulfill your cord-cutting needs, it’s hard to argue against the ease of use the Xbox One brings. Once you have the console, you literally plug-in the USB to your coax antenna, plug-in a USB hard drive, spend five minutes configuring the guide and you’re off and running. It really doesn’t get much easier or more convenient than that.