On December 6th, Microsoft will clearly absolution a new Xbox 360 dashboard amend to all Xbox users. We've played about with it for a while now and can say that the Xbox has never looked so good.
And it's all acknowledgment to Metro. What's Metro? It's the architecture accent that's giving Microsoft software a attractive sheen. Heavy on typography and collapsed squares and reside tiles and swiping, Metro lives in Xbox, Windows Phone 7 and the attainable Windows 8. It's a beginning yet accustomed yield on UI; Metro looks so acceptable because you already apperceive how to use it even if you've never acclimated it before.
What's New
The looks. The UI. It's better. It's Metrofied. And that's a absolute acceptable thing. With Metro on Xbox, Microsoft can alluringly backpack added agreeable assimilate one screen. A accumbent card data the assorted categories on your Xbox (Games, Video, Music, Apps, etc.) with anniversary class accepting its own hub organized neatly with absolute tiles of content. For example, the Apps tab will appearance a Netflix tile, an ESPN tile, Zune tile, etc. Amateur will appearance tiles for games. And so on. It makes complete sense. You about-face over to a tab and you'll see actually what you wish to see, all in one hub. Metro keeps aggregate tidy and up front, there isn't abundant being hidden above what's on your TV awning which agency you're no best scrolling for canicule anymore. Even better, there's a new Quickplay asphalt on the home awning that can barrage afresh acclimated apps (like Netflix). So even beneath scrolls! There are a lot of ads though.
All Kinect EverythingThe new Xbox 360 dashboard places a huge accent on Kinect. From gestures to articulation to design, Kinect has become foreground and centermost in authoritative the Xbox. Or I guess, you are now foreground and centermost in authoritative the Xbox (without a controller). Just beachcomber your duke and you can bash screens and admission any asphalt you wish afterwards accepting to jump into the abstracted Kinect-only awning of yore. Kinect is chip about system-wide now so you can Minority Report your Xbox to your hand's desire. Absolute cool.
What's a lot of absorbing about the Kinect controls is how able-bodied articulation controls are implemented now. You can in fact allocution to your Xbox and it'll do things for you. And admitting the antecedent startup phrases are inelegant, it's calmly the best way to cross about the system. You admit articulation ascendancy by adage 'Xbox...' and afresh you can say Videos or Amateur or Apps etc. to cross to that specific tab. Useful!
On top of that, you can seek on your Xbox too. Not absolute Bing seek because that would be asinine but seek for movies and music and added agreeable attainable via Xbox. Start with 'Xbox Bing...' and say something like 'Batman' and the Xbox will appearance you all the Batman agreeable you can get on your Xbox (movies, shows, games) from all the assorted sources you can get it from. It's actually admirable and a lot of importantly, fast and intuitive. I'm not affecting a ambassador again.
Games? What Games? Say Accost to Apps
What's conceivably the boldest change in the new Xbox software amend is something that's been architecture for a continued time: the Xbox is not all about the amateur anymore. Seriously, in the bureaucracy of categories, Amateur comes afterwards Social and Video. That's purposeful. Along with the new software update, there'll be a ton of abundant looking, Metro-inspired new 'apps' from altered agreeable ally too. From HBO Go to UFC to FiOS to Crackle to YouTube, VEVO, TMZ, MLB.tv and more, you don't even accept to buy one video bold to adore an Xbox anymore. Combine those new apps with what's already on the Xbox like Netflix and Hulu Plus and the Xbox 360 is realizing and all-embracing its abeyant as abundant added than a bold console.
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Here's the abounding account of agreeable partners:
Dec. 6:
• EPIX. United States
• ESPN on Xbox LIVE. United States
• Hulu. Japan
• Hulu Plus. United States
• LOVEFiLM. United Kingdom
• Netflix. Canada, United States
• Premium Play by (MediaSet). Italy
• Sky Go (SkyDE). Austria, Germany
• Telefónica España – Movistar Imagenio. Spain
• TODAY (MSNBC). United States
Later in December:
• 4 on Demand (C4). United Kingdom
• ABC iView (Australian Broadcasting Corp.). Australia
• AlloCiné. France (AlloCiné), Germany (Filmstarts), Spain (Sensacine), United Kingdom (Screenrush)
• Astral Media's Disney XD (Astral Media). Canada
• blinkbox (Blinkbox). United Kingdom
• Crackle (Sony Pictures). Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, United States
• Dailymotion. Available in 32 countries globally
• Demand 5 (Five). United Kingdom
• DIGI+ (CANAL+). Spain
• GolTV (Mediapro). Spain
• iHeartRadio (Clear Channel). United States
• Mediathek/ZDF (ZDF). Germany
• MSN. Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, United Kingdom
• MSNBC.com. United States
• MUZU.TV. Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom
• ninemsn. Australia
• Real Sports (Maple Leaf Sports). Canada
• Rogers On Demand Online. Canada
• SBS ON DEMAND. Australia
• Syfy. United States
• TMZ. Canada, United States
• TVE (RTVE.es). Spain
• UFC on Xbox LIVE. Canada, United States
• Verizon FiOS TV. United States
• VEVO. Canada, Ireland, United Kingdom, United States
• Vudu. United States
• YouTube. Available in 24 countries globally
Early 2012:
• Antena 3 (Antena 3 de Televisión). Spain
• BBC. United Kingdom
• CinemaNow. United States
• HBO GO. United States
• MLB.TV. Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Columbia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Russia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, United Kingdom, United States
• Telenovelas/Sports. Brazil, Chile, Colombia, France, Italy, Mexico, Spain, United Kingdom
• Xfinity On Demand (Comcast). United States
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