The most useful features of the kinect only need a mic to work, but of course MS wont let you just use a mic for those features... they want you to buy a ridiculously expensive gadget to collect dust while waiting for a voice command...
Autologin doesn't really matter for me, with a single primary account, autologin can be enabled anyway. Controlling the TV with the hand, while I haven't used it long term, was a rather annoying experience IMO, since it twice did things at a friends house while we were talking... Even the voice features... its become a thing to troll people by yelling xbox commands over chat, if they have chat on the TV, you can really screw people up... I would probably disable that anyway.
The most useful features of the kinect only need a mic to work, but of course MS wont let you just use a mic for those features... they want you to buy a ridiculously expensive gadget to collect dust while waiting for a voice command...