The Xbox 360's new dashboard: what you need to know
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Xbox 360 is about to undergo a transformation. Nick Cowen check the new features and analyzes the reasons behind the change
times in the next 48 hours, Xbox 360 owners will notice the appearance of your control panel of the console has changed considerably. The list of chips that are used to navigate exclusively with a control panel have been replaced by a format that resembles a giant version of the interface Windows Phone 7.
is, the scoreboard will be a series of squares covering the different features and aspects, such as games, social music and video. Players will lose none of their current position, but perhaps need a few days to learn where everything is.
Facebook and Twitter, for example, be placed in the menu called "social" with Kinect video call feature. You will also notice the dash has enough new features.
Bingis also included in the dashboard, but players can not be used to search for content in their own Xbox 360, and nothing else available in the dashboard - Services VOD, Xbox Bazaar and so on.
members of Xbox Live Gold Cloud storage access, where you can save games and load your profile, allowing them to access any Xbox 360 with your player name (as long as the console is connected to the Internet).
Goldalso have access to the new console at the request of services, which are all located in the Applications menu. These include Lovefilm, YouTube, on request 4, Channel 5 On Demand, YouTube and Blinkbox among others, as well as Sky, Last.fm and Zune, which are now available on Xbox Live.
Players can download applications from the Xbox to add to the list of more than content is held (such as BBC iPlayer, which is expected in 2012).
The new menu system also offers a higher level of integration of functionality between the Xbox 360, Windows Phone 7 and Kinect.
While the new dashboard is neither more nor less difficult to navigate using a joystick, it is much easier and faster to do it with a controller Kinect.
- For example, a quick leafing through a couple of menus with a joystick to find Bing, and enter the phrase "Harry Potter" in the engine to see all related content assist glasses, can now be achieved by Kinect few seconds, saying "Xbox, Bing, Harry Potter." The new instrument panel, in fact, may be the case only on the Xbox 360, Kinect module which has the advantage over the traditional control pads.
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