The 360 thread!

[Muttley]

[Muttley]

Well I grabbed the update in literally seconds, but Live is down and wont let you sign in so no looking at any of the new content, editing of Avatars etc.

Dash itself is lovely and fast though. Most noticeably for me when browsing music I stream from the PC.

Anyone want to have a bet on when Live will work again? Fingers crossed it's not a repeat of last Christmas.

Live's working fine here.

[WiredWorm]

The Xbox.com website seems to be a bit hit and miss right now, but that's hardly surprising considering the hammering it's probably getting.

Stuck at work at the moment so can't try out the new dashboard, but the new functionality on the website looks quite promising. No more having to queue up downloads when I get home - I can just do it online and know that my content will be ready by the time I get back.

[Meatpuppet]

It's available in the UK/Europe now - just installed and setup Avatar etc..
Blimey - you'd think it was the 2nd coming of Christ after the 'experience' intro.. it feels like the difference between XP and Vista - with an emphasis on broadening the scope for accesses to DLC and marketing clutter. And what's the obsession in multimedia design to make everything look like an iPod touch interface?!! Doesn't work in this context!!

Also, you'll find you'll need to download and re-install the media patch if you want to stream xVid content.

[benedictw]

I can just do it online and know that my content will be ready by the time I get back.

If you're 360 is turned on that is - it can't power it on for you!

[Ratsoap]

Bah, the avatar 'fatness' only goes up to about overweight, that's a good chunk of the gaming public ostracised already.

Mine just looks like a mincing bearded woman.

[Flabio]

This is me, and has been for ages now (yay, no more NDA on the new dashboard...)

[Muttley]

Mine just looks like a mincing bearded woman.

So.... quite acurate then!

[Rod_S]

Still feels like I'm clicking excessively to view content, has no one at MS heard about the concept of using thumbnails? I don't understand why they're using the paging method rather than using a grid of thumbnails, it doesn't make any sense. The Wii Channels presentation blows this away in terms of usability and offering at-a-glance access to your content.

Hate the avatars.

[Flabio]

I don't understand why they're using the paging method rather than using a grid of thumbnails, it doesn't make any sense.

Software patent?

[WiredWorm]

If you're 360 is turned on that is - it can't power it on for you!

A simple phone-call to the better half will sort that. Much easier to get her to just power it on rather than trying to talk her through queueing up the downloads.

[Ratsoap]

Mine just looks like a mincing bearded woman.

So.... quite acurate then!

Walked straight into that one.

[Flabio]

You look a little, erm, surprised there Ratsoap...

[RiK]

If you haven't got it yet try going to settings and running a network test, when it gets to Xbox Live you will get the prompt.

Ahh, you're a star!

It wasn't showing up for me until I tried that.

[Meatpuppet]

I think this best represents me