Fall Xbox Live Update Tomorrow November 1

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  • Colonel Angus
    No longer a noob
    • Jan 2010
    • 1935

    [360] Fall Xbox Live Update Tomorrow November 1

    per PCMAG.com

    Xbox 360 users, get ready: Microsoft has confirmed that the Fall dashboard update is coming your way tomorrow.


    Xbox 360 users, get ready: Microsoft has confirmed that the Fall dashboard update is coming your way tomorrow, and with it comes a host of upgrades to your service in preparation for the big launch of Microsoft's motion-controlling add-on, the Kinect.

    For starters, the core Xbox 360 interface is getting a makeover that's more in line with what you've been seeing from Kinect's big marketing campaign—prettier art and, in this case, square windows instead of the rounded one. But that's not all, thankfully. The speed of the interface itself has been pepped up—a "huge improvement," says IGN's Nate Ahearn.

    "Navigating from window to window feels a step quicker than it did before and the same goes for the Xbox guide, which no longer exhibits a two-second delay between pressing the guide button and the guide actually opening," he writes.

    Voice quality has been kicked up a notch as well, thanks to an upgrade to the audio codec that Microsoft uses for the headset-laden gamers logging more than one billion hours per month on Xbox Live—that's over 25 million members worldwide, to note.

    Microsoft's also reduced the number of steps it takes to make various purchases within the service's Games Marketplace, which should make it a bit easier to navigate around and pick up new add-ons, downloadable titles, or what-have-you. The look and feel of the service's pop-up keyboard has been tweaked a bit as well—all the better for entering information like, you know, your credit card number… or the latest trash-talk you have to dish out to your friends.

    We won't bury the lede any further: a brand-new connection to ESPN3 content joins the Xbox 360 with the Fall dashboard update. If your Internet provider has the right deals in place on the back-end to allow it, streamed spots will be at your disposal. The preexisting Netflix service has gotten a bit of a sprucing up as well—a new search functionality mimics Google's "Instant Search" feature by giving you actionable results as you type in various letters to find your favorite show or movie.

    Other tweaks include the ability to see all active wireless networks within range of the console when you go to select exactly how you're going to connect up to Xbox Live. You can now sign out profiles on controllers-not-your-own via the standard system menu, which reduces the "who's who" problem found when trying to switch people around on group games.

    And, for the Xbox junkies out there, Microsoft is making it even easier for you and your friends to check out any games that you've completed one-hundred-percent: That's every single achievement a game has to offer. After all, "You spent a lot of time and effort earning those Achievements," says a description from Microsoft.
    I'm pretty excited. The ESPN 3 app looks pretty sweet!
  • leaffan
    Colton Orr Fan
    • Feb 2009
    • 11082

    #2
    The voice quality upgrade should be nice.

    Outside of that we don't get any of that espn shit in canada so the rest of it is useless.

    Leafs offseason training!

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    • Bear Pand
      RIP Indy Colts
      • Feb 2009
      • 5945

      #3
      So can I organize people on my friends list into groups so i can send out messages faster?

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      • Twigg4075
        Kindergarten Cop
        • Feb 2009
        • 20056

        #4
        Originally posted by leaffan
        Outside of that we don't get any of that espn shit in canada so the rest of it is useless.
        Don't feel bad. Not all ISP's support it and mine isn't one of them.
        Originally posted by Killa Pand
        So can I organize people on my friends list into groups so i can send out messages faster?
        That's one of the main features I've been waiting forever for. They promised that when the 360 launched.

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        • jms493
          Junior Member
          • Feb 2009
          • 11248

          #5
          its free!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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          • LiquidLarry2GhostWF
            Highwayman
            • Feb 2009
            • 15429

            #6
            Should be interesting to see how the ESPN3 looks when streaming to an HD TV.

            I use ESPN3 A LOT (seriously, Saturday's, I constantly use it)...so this is interesting indeed. Also interested to see what the new Netflix layout looks like. The screenshots I see from PS3 look much sleeker and professional...hopefully 360's looks better.

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            • JohnDoe8865
              Large Member
              • Sep 2009
              • 25

              #7
              Fucking Time Warner Cable. Some bullshit that you gotta have RoadRunner AND their cable TV service. Fuck yo couch TWC

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              • Colonel Angus
                No longer a noob
                • Jan 2010
                • 1935

                #8
                Originally posted by JohnDoe8865
                Fucking Time Warner Cable. Some bullshit that you gotta have RoadRunner AND their cable TV service. Fuck yo couch TWC
                Yeah I'm up at college so I'll be able to use it for the month or so I have left here. But once I move back home I'll be in the same boat.

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                • Lanteri
                  No longer a noob
                  • Feb 2009
                  • 2723

                  #9
                  Update is live.

                  Only thing I care about, like most of you, is the ESPN3 stuff, and it looks pretty awesome in HD, so, it's a win for me.

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                  • jms493
                    Junior Member
                    • Feb 2009
                    • 11248

                    #10
                    who will be the first vsner to bitch about the new update?

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                    • leaffan
                      Colton Orr Fan
                      • Feb 2009
                      • 11082

                      #11
                      Originally posted by jms493
                      who will be the first vsner to bitch about the new update?
                      I probably can be the first one, since I don't get most of the cool shit anyways.

                      Leafs offseason training!

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                      • BrntO4Life
                        My Aunt Ida Smokes.
                        • Mar 2009
                        • 6866

                        #12
                        Aside from TWC screwing me out of live events, everything else is nice. It certainly seems to run smoother.

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                        • FedEx227
                          Delivers
                          • Mar 2009
                          • 10454

                          #13
                          Originally posted by jms493
                          who will be the first vsner to bitch about the new update?
                          Is this even a question?

                           
                          Twigg
                          VoicesofWrestling.com

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                          • gaysex4lif
                            No longer a noob
                            • Oct 2008
                            • 1476

                            #14
                            amazing. Everything is smooth and ESPN 3 is niceeeee.

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                            • Point Blank
                              Needs a hobby
                              • Oct 2008
                              • 14184

                              #15
                              How much content does the ESPN shit have already, how many NBA games?

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