The Next Dashboard Update Rolling Out

Submitted by Demonchild; October 18, 2012


It's that time of the year again where Microsoft releases a new dashboard update for the masses of users out there. The new update adds support for the Xbox Music streaming service that was set to launch this week as well as some other goodies. System Update 16197 is available for updating to and like the previous major updates, it is being pushed out in waves. Take a look at the changes, as Major Nelson explains:

 

• 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.

 

Sounds like a juicy update. c4evaSpeaks reports that the xk3y ODDE and the iXtreme LT+ firmware works fine, just as it did through the beta testing phase. As always, take the necessary precautions to ensure that you don't increase your chances of getting your console banned from Xbox Live.

 

Source: Major Nelson

 

 

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