New Xbox 360 dashboard update roll-out begins

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The 2012 Xbox Live update has commenced and all subscribers should to have access to it over the coming weeks.

"To ensure a stable release, this will be a gradual deployment across subscribers and regions over the course of the next week," said Major Nelson.
"Our initial deployment will reach approximately three million consoles worldwide, with additional users being updated over the course of a couple weeks."

The update will include the following features:

Refreshed Xbox 360 Dashboard: We've updated the UI with a few things, including an updated layout with more tiles, a combined TV & Movies channel and, in the US, a Sports destination
Internet Explorer for Xbox: With Internet Explorer on Xbox, you can easily find and view internet content on the biggest screen in the house, including HTML5 videos
Recommendations and Ratings: Recommendations will allow you to discover new favorites, generated based on a number of variables including the content you previously viewed, what your friends are consuming and what is most relevant and popular with our Xbox community. You can now rate content yourself and also see Rotten Tomatoes ratings
Pinning: Pinning lets you personalize the dashboard by saving your favorite movies, TV shows, games, music, videos and websites right to the home screen. It's as easy as opening an app or a favorite movie and clicking "pin"
Xbox Video: Formerly called Zune Video Marketplace, Xbox Video offers hundreds of thousands of TV shows and movies for buying or renting in instant HD streaming
Recent: Previously called Quick Play, the Recent view gives you a list of movies, games, apps or other types of content that you most recently accessed on the console
Enhanced Search: The last Xbox LIVE update brought Bing voice search to Xbox so you could use voice to search for movies, TV shows, actors, directors and artists. This year we added genre search to the list, so now you can search for action, comedy, romance, drama or sci-fi. Bing voice search now includes results for video across the Web, including YouTube
International Expansion of Voice Search: We've expanded our Kinect voice search capabilities to 9 new countries - Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Mexico, Italy, Spain, Austria, and Ireland
Xbox Music launched yesterday, while Xbox SmartGlass is also set to launch on the Windows 8 release date of October 26.

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jovialshademanPosted:

AR15 I was wanting this. Didn't bother to get the dash beta, which I should of.


I wish i did too!

jovialshademanPosted:

The new internet explorer is so AWESOME!!

Im on it right now typing this xD

AR15Posted:

I was wanting this. Didn't bother to get the dash beta, which I should of.

XprNPosted:

Icy-Mods had this sense june


You're so cool

ripgutPosted:

mxzd I still prefer the Blade or NXE dashboard. If they would've just added onto it instead of going Windows 8 style. Maybe let us choose our dash? That'd be cool.


Blade Dash all the way. I wish I could go back to that.

MortarPosted:

This will be welcomed by the Xbox community I am sure, it is also a good idea to gradually release it as it means less chance of problems occurring.

Wiz-Posted:

Icy-Mods had this sense june


Wow aren't you cool! No.

wiikid3000Posted:

mxzd I still prefer the Blade or NXE dashboard. If they would've just added onto it instead of going Windows 8 style. Maybe let us choose our dash? That'd be cool.


I liked the Black Out dash that they had. Ha, i think it lasted about 1 week. It was nice though.

Icy-ModsPosted:

had this sense june

FamousPosted:

What was add etc can be found here. http://www.thetechgame.com/Forums/t=3847768/list-of-xbox-360-dashboard-updates-since-nov-2005-launch.html

Also very nice article.