Just do it and get back to me, please.
In fact, would love to hear from more of our listeners who give this a try.
I'm not going to make a non-gamer friend watch a 13 minute video when I know they won't even get to either of the two parts they care about because even the first one is over 6 minutes in.
[edit: I actually did sent it to two people now, we'll see what happens]
If I do end up showing it to non-gamers, I'll be sure to mention it is $500 and see if they're interested.
DirecTV and Comcast already have voice control for their cable boxes here in the US since early 2013, and they aren't setting the twitters ablaze, at least not yet.
Here's an example:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5t5jBa1vTn0
(no voice demo in that vid, but they do have it)
I'm sure it's not as good as MS' UI, even if it looks similar viscerally. They are a cable company after all. But remember it also comes at no additional charge.
Again, I'm not saying MS' media features aren't good. I'm not saying people won't use them. What I'm saying is it's virtually impossible to sell someone a $500 Xbox One based upon media features. They're going to have to want to game on it and want to do so pretty badly given the price. So Sony is concentrating their marketing on gaming, and MS is too.
Maybe later we'll see that change, especially as the price of the units comes down. And the software will keep getting better and better too, and we're going to get a lot more content over IP, which the box can tune natively, and less through your cable box, which requires MS' backpack (HDMI in) solution.