News - Xbox 360 dashboard update goes live in U.K.

[HEXUS]

Adds Zune marketplace and Kinect compatibility.

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[Mike Fishcake]

Anyone else having issues with the update?

No response from anything - the system itself appeared to freeze. Using internet connection on the PC happily, but nothing happening on the xbox. Was stuck on the screen for about 15 minutes, locked up. The B button to cancel the update did nothing, and the clock stuck on 20.36 until I just thought "oh sod it" and turned it off, despite the warning. Running on a 360S 250GB.

[Terbinator]

My non-slim upgraded fine, then again that was this morning when the servers weren't being butt burgled.

[atmadden]

Went ok for me to very uninspiring update

[BlackDwarf]

It's not supposed to be the same 'Wow!' dash update like from the blades to the NXE (I sometimes miss the blades).

I think it's nice. Sharp, more focused, easier to find what you want.

[crossy]

Anyone else having issues with the update?

I updated last night (Monday) at around 8pm and wasn't that impressed - the update process lost my internet connection initially (the "Can't connect to XBoxLive" message when trying to download the update) and I had to retry, after which it worked. Update seemed to be much slower than the (bigger?) NXE update. Like you, I've got one of those new-fangled "slim" XB's rather than the older "white box" that I had previously.

Alongside movies, you can stream music videos through the Xbox 360 from the likes of Lady Gaga and Taylor Swift.

Well, there's a good reason to trade the XBox in for a PS3!

It takes around 5 minutes to install and, in Microsoft’s words, "enhances the interface, navigation, and responsiveness" of the console.

Nah, mine took longer than five minutes to install. And I'll certainly disagree strongly with the responsiveness "enhancement" - sure, it seems slightly zippier to switch from heading to heading, but download/installs are a lot slower - at least based on the limited tests I did last night.

I downloaded PinballFX2 last night (I've already got v1, so it seemed like a good idea for a free upgrade) and the download process seemed to take an age to get to the point where it actually popped up the downloading bar. And even when the bar came up (finally!) it seemed to take an age to actually get started. Downloading the tables (some of them <1MB) also took an age, and in two cases the XBox locked up and had to be cold-started.

Yes, I realise that some of this could be the load on XBL because of having to serve the update to folks, and maybe the rest is down to PinballFX2 being buggy. But on the experience so far, I'm unimpressed.

brings with it a few enchancements, including improvement to voice control

Voice control? For Kinect only presumably - although the in me just loves the idea of being able to do "play dvd movie ... skip to chapter 2" etc. Should be fun to see what Kinect can actually do "out of the box" (i.e. to the normal XBox features) when it hits the streets next week.

[Grey M@a]

The new dash is a step backwards personally, the square feel to it, the insanely bright white all over the place melts your retina's within seconds. Also the never ending issues with getting the update to work, so far it took 9 attempts to get it with xbox constantly restarting and then doing the update over and over, the menu's now lag so bad I turned the xbox off after 10 minutes, when leaving an XBLA game the controller is then locked out for anything upto 60 seconds.

Fingers crossed they get another patch for the update out, otherwise I will be sending the xbox off for them to sort. Cba to mess on with it any more.

[Russ]

i've had it for over a month, its nice but a night time mode would be nice

[Bunjiweb]

Prefer the previous version and I too had big issues trying to get SkyPlayer and ZunePlayer to work post-upgrade.... Not overly impressed so far, my Girlfriend also doesn't like the new interface, simply calling it "boring".

Ben

[Terbinator]

Bring back the blades i say. Quick bumper jumper and you could get to what you wanted.

[Grey M@a]

Finally it seems the dash is starting to behave itself, but has anyone noticed since the new dash update that their games are suffering major slowdown?