Xbox 360 Fall Update

[Smigit]

the only way they would add group chat would be for the dashboard only...it would be to easy to ghost in games like Gears of War if you could have your entire team in a group chat

If people want to Ghost then they are going to be able to whether MS supports group chat or not. All they need is to use a PC for chat and they're set.

[CNSBarry]

Those images have been floating round the net for months - they appeared round about the last big update the 360 got.

[Andrew Lyle Global Moderator]

xbox won't make clan support look that bad, which is why I believe those screens are fake

[SnowRanger13]

-16:10 support

-more codec support (mostly Divx/Xvid... I love my anime)

-clan support would rock.

[spenser.d]

I don't see why clan support is so popular. It really detracts from the game, in just turning it into pure competition rather than something that, while being competitive, is a lot of fun. And in fact, Bungie left it out of Halo 3 for good reason (quote from Frankie):

Clan support not only had little to do with Halo 2s longevity, but in fact proved quite unpopular relative to other matchmaking types and activity. That said, Bungie.net does plan to increase support for clan-like activities in the very near future. More news on that later.

Clan support really isn't all it's hyped up to be, IMO, and it wouldn't bother me if they didn't add the feature.

A lot of people mention other codec support. I'd like to be able to stream my digital DVD collection (I've ripped all mine to my computer) to my 360 (all files are still in DVD format). I can do it with, say, Transcode 360, but I'd really like to not have to. Media Center won't play them because they 'can't be streamed from a remote location'.

-Spenser

[Ayepecks]

Well I just realized that it's close to that time of year, and there's been surprisingly little chatter about the next Xbox 360 major update. When do you think it'll hit, and what surprises do you think/hope Microsoft will have in store for us?

-Spenser

-1 (for not being an actual story/rumor :p)

[spenser.d]

-1 (for not being an actual story/rumor :p)

lol, I thought that after I posted it :p

-Spenser

[rbrucemtl]

Yea that would be nice to run at full 1440x900 here on my LCD monitor

All I want is 16:10 support.

[Smashing Pumpkin]

Rewind/Fast forward of music would be nice, kinda basic really.

Loads of other stuff I'd like but can't think of it now.

[Simon Veteran]

Ability to log into MSN using a different account than the one tied to your Xbox Live account. I'm pretty sure Microsoft said this would be there, I can's get you an exact quote. And I can't use my WLM account on Live because it got corrupted on Microsoft's side of things :\

[jerzdawg]

it can if you have a program such as tversity. or transcode 360 on your desktop on the same network but not natively

yes.. but due to the way my network is set up... I am unable to stream movies from my pc to my xbox 360 over my network... I can just burn a bunch of divx files to a dvd and play on my xbmc...

[Got3n]

I just want divx/xvid playback. That would make my life a hell of a lot easier.

As of now its pretty easy with transcode360, cant really get any easier IMO unless they just give it native support which im not saying I dont want but people make it out to be harder the it is.

Would looooove group chat, 16:10 support as well, these i want the most.

[HawkMan]

As of now its pretty easy with transcode360, cant really get any easier IMO unless they just give it native support which im not saying I dont want but people make it out to be harder the it is.

Would looooove group chat, 16:10 support as well, these i want the most.

ever tried transcoding 720 tv shows or movies ?

to avoid the movie simply stopping or having it skip around or freeze as it hits the buffer end, you have to let ot pre buffer in pause for quite some time, even twith regular res shows you need to giv it a few minutes to buffer up.

[Titoist]

Something I trully want is a browser for the 360. The Wii has one, PS3 has one, why not the 360? With the chatpad this is now completely possible.

[LightIdea]

Something I trully want is a browser for the 360. The Wii has one, PS3 has one, why not the 360? With the chatpad this is now completely possible.

Oh god yes.

[Spartan_X]

:shifty: :whistle:

[DrunknMunky Veteran]

Spill the beans SX, you know ya wanna :p

At least drop us a hint? Has it been mentioned so far in the thread ? :p

[DigitalE]

+1 for proper 16:10 support!

[Pheee]

Im not bothered will clan support, but grouping on friends list would be useful, so I could group up all the neowinians neatly.

[Samboini]

Firefox support! A guy can dream...

[Noveed]

lol well id love

- A Browser, i feel the 360 is missing this, PS3 has one and the Wii has too. Why not 360. MSN integration was a first, next step possibly MSN/Xbox Communities? With the MSN chat pad it would go well with browser and character imput.

- Im not sure if anyone has brought this up, but this is what really really REALLY bugs me. When playing an MP3 from lets say my ipod (maybe HDD aswell not sure but deffos with ipod) i cannot forward or rewind songs, or even go to a certain place in a song (ie 1:25 ... etc etc) Would love to see this implemented, i dont think the original xbox had this either so MS if you are reading and checking forums for feedback READ THIS :p

- Keyboard + Mouse support (we can hope lol !) If it is a problem with licensing etc then Make an officail xbox360 keyboard + Mouse, i would gladly buy one to play COD4 or Halo3 etc etc and also with UT3 coming soon ;)

- More Codecs, im getting sick of TRANSCODING using TVersity(dont get me wrong its a great piece of kit, but sometimes when it transcodes i cant do anything on the computer). Also i dont want to convert all my movie collection WMV and then stream that over, that would take ages.

- Video Market Place for Europe

- Personal Blade which is fully or almost fully customizable. Maybe have cool features like weather, notes, calendar, To do list, an alarm (i would love that, would tell me its time to get some sleep or get to work haha, do tend to get carried away when im playing)

- Bluetooth Support (okies dont laugh lol, im not sure how but it maybe possible to do this, i think orange broadband added bluetooth to thier livebox(router) via a FW update so it maybe possible on the 360)

not really sure what else, might have a think and post more if i can.

[Titoist]

lol well id love

- A Browser, i feel the 360 is missing this, PS3 has one and the Wii has too. Why not 360. MSN integration was a first, next step possibly MSN/Xbox Communities? With the MSN chat pad it would go well with browser and character imput.

- Im not sure if anyone has brought this up, but this is what really really REALLY bugs me. When playing an MP3 from lets say my ipod (maybe HDD aswell not sure but deffos with ipod) i cannot forward or rewind songs, or even go to a certain place in a song (ie 1:25 ... etc etc) Would love to see this implemented, i dont think the original xbox had this either so MS if you are reading and checking forums for feedback READ THIS :p

- Keyboard + Mouse support (we can hope lol !) If it is a problem with licensing etc then Make an officail xbox360 keyboard + Mouse, i would gladly buy one to play COD4 or Halo3 etc etc and also with UT3 coming soon ;)

- More Codecs, im getting sick of TRANSCODING using TVersity(dont get me wrong its a great piece of kit, but sometimes when it transcodes i cant do anything on the computer). Also i dont want to convert all my movie collection WMV and then stream that over, that would take ages.

- Video Market Place for Europe

- Personal Blade which is fully or almost fully customizable. Maybe have cool features like weather, notes, calendar, To do list, an alarm (i would love that, would tell me its time to get some sleep or get to work haha, do tend to get carried away when im playing)

- Bluetooth Support (okies dont laugh lol, im not sure how but it maybe possible to do this, i think orange broadband added bluetooth to thier livebox(router) via a FW update so it maybe possible on the 360)

not really sure what else, might have a think and post more if i can.

I agree with half of those, the other half... not so much... my reasoning... then it wouldnt be a console, it would just be a computer. Imagine 5yrs from now... "HP Pavillion XBox" :p

[HawkMan]

Clans or whatver I don't care about.

I would however liek another option. between yoru regular friends list and the last played tab, I wish they'd add another "communities" tab. Then have a site where peopel can create communities like on the Halo 3 site, but preferably all across live!. And under there you'd be able to Select one of the communities you're a member of and see who's online in that community.

Then we could see who on Neowin is online at all time, without adding every neowinian to your friends list.

Grouping of the friends list would be nice too :)

and yeah Xvid and full mp4 support :)

- Personal Blade which is fully or almost fully customizable. Maybe have cool features like weather, notes, calendar, To do list, an alarm (i would love that, would tell me its time to get some sleep or get to work haha, do tend to get carried away when im playing)

- Bluetooth Support (okies dont laugh lol, im not sure how but it maybe possible to do this, i think orange broadband added bluetooth to thier livebox(router) via a FW update so it maybe possible on the 360)

no more blades. I don't really see a need for this anyway, mostly gimmicky, just look out the window if you want to see the weather :p

as for BT... why ? why would you want or need BT support on the 360 ? the RF system used in the 360 is far faster than BT anyway.

[Noveed]

Clans or whatver I don't care about.

I would however liek another option. between yoru regular friends list and the last played tab, I wish they'd add another "communities" tab. Then have a site where peopel can create communities like on the Halo 3 site, but preferably all across live!. And under there you'd be able to Select one of the communities you're a member of and see who's online in that community.

Then we could see who on Neowin is online at all time, without adding every neowinian to your friends list.

Grouping of the friends list would be nice too :)

and yeah Xvid and full mp4 support :)

no more blades. I don't really see a need for this anyway, mostly gimmicky, just look out the window if you want to see the weather :p

as for BT... why ? why would you want or need BT support on the 360 ? the RF system used in the 360 is far faster than BT anyway.

Well i would love to send photos, music and possibly mp4 movies to my xbox360, now since i cant send by Wifi even though the N95 has it, i can send by bluetooth. :D main reason really for BT. Dont think my N95 can stream stuff over to 360 either if its possible please let me know, wouldnt mind trying it out.

[HawkMan]

Tried USB datacable ?

it the N95 is able to fucntion as a regular dtatastorage device or multimedia device(don't remember the protocol names) the 360 should be able to read it just fine.