Those who missed out on the public beta of this year’s dashboard preview on the Xbox 360, you now have the opportunity to have that update as Microsoft announced that the Fall 2012 dashboard update should be rolling out sometime today.
One of the biggest highlights in this year’s dashboard update on the Xbox 360 is the ability to use your console to surf the internet with the Internet Explorer app. In addition, gamers can now personalize their dashboard by ‘pinning’ your favorite apps and games for a quick and easy access.
Here’s the list of all the new stuff:
- 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.
Looking for the SmartGlass? It will be available as soon as Windows 8 becomes available.
RandomNoodles12
October 18, 2012 at 10:40 PMAds. All I see is ads.
Nathaniel
October 20, 2012 at 6:08 PMI still haven’t been prompted to update. Dafuq?
BelvedereEm
October 20, 2012 at 10:52 PMI haven’t gotten the update yet, but my roomie has…. majorly jealous right now.
shane
October 21, 2012 at 9:35 AMStill not received update live in uk people near me have it I dont