I went to play COD4 tonight and low and behold it started to download an update. Apparently I was selected to participate in the beta test of the new dashboard update. Overall it looks pretty much the same. Most of the changes are minor. I have a new "channel" called Xbox Preview. In there lists the new features which are:
- Party Reconnections
- Streamline Party Invites
- Gold Member veterans-your gamer card shows how long you've been a gold member
- Subscription notification
- fixing invalid windows live ids
- better account recovery
- avatar props-it seams you unlock these from games
- avatar marketplace-you can buy clothes for you're avatar. some look pretty cool, they're 80mp for say a pair of steampunk glasses. which I HAD to buy, but thats IT, damnit.
- Avatar awards- it seems you'll be able to unlock clothing and the props from getting certain achievements in games. Which seems a lot better than having to buy the damn clothes.
- watch netflix in a party
- browse netflix content faster based on previously watched
- better playback
- shows what you are watching in the Friends channel
- ability to override display formats for dvi and hdmi
- user ratings for all game content
- Games on Demand-xbox originals, and it sounds like they may have xbox360 games to download. also game manuals for games on demand on xbox.com
- DRM stuff- seems you still can take your profile to someone else's xbox, buy a game, then recover your profile on your account and redownload the game and you both can play.
- community games are now called indie games
- launch a game from the achievement browser
- achievement tracking- an all games view which shows a summary of achievements from all games played
- better achievement browser
- more "links" for common items such as, downloads, redeem code, auto sign-in, create profile and recover gamertag
- warning if no audio when sending a voice message-small feature but definitely will keep me from looking like a dumbass.
- time stamps on memory area-such as for saved games
- friends list sorting by activity, gamertag, or online status
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