[Official] New Xbox Experience (or Fall 2008 Update)

[what]

I see a **** load of xbox 360 remotes on ebay for like a fiver

Some from hong kong. Anyone tried them? Do they work?

E.g http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/For-XBOX-360-DVD-REM...A1%7C240%3A1318

Have they changed the design or is that a cheap Asian knockoff? o.O The official one looks like this:

[DrunknMunky Veteran]

The remotes came FREE with Xbox 360 Pro! *Limited Time*?

The mini media remote did, not the MCE remote.

@ What, no those are the mini remotes bundled with the launch consoles. I still have mine sealed :)

[what]

The mini media remote did, not the MCE remote.

@ What, no those are the mini remotes bundled with the launch consoles. I still have mine sealed :)

My bad :p Well, that's one thing I've learnt today :)

[SuperJediMedia]

What are some of the BEST Youtube NXE videos? Besides these?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wGb_-GOXf8

[DrunknMunky Veteran]

What does it matter? :s

[Brad.]

The mini media remote did, not the MCE remote.

@ What, no those are the mini remotes bundled with the launch consoles. I still have mine sealed :)

Mines been on my shelf since launch >.>

forgot about it, just started streaming my movies to xbox, gonna start using it :p

[DR3AMxCATCHER]

Party system is amazing. I love how it shows who just joined your party and when they leave. Also everyone talking is pretty sweet. Photo Party is interesting too.

Although, I wish there was more I could do with my avatar :(

[what]

Although, I wish there was more I could do with my avatar :(

Use the right stick when he's on the dashboard to move him around in various ways and his face changes. Go up and down and he smiles, side to side and he gets angry and round (either clockwise or anti-clockwise) and he gets dizzy. Makes all that time they spent developing worth it, right?

[DR3AMxCATCHER]

Use the right stick when he's on the dashboard to move him around in various ways and his face changes. Go up and down and he smiles, side to side and he gets angry and round (either clockwise or anti-clockwise) and he gets dizzy. Makes all that time they spent developing worth it, right?

Yeah, I knew all of that. I guess what I was trying to say more stuff like more interactive with other people on my friends list kind of like HOME on the PS3.

[mattmatik]

Yeah, I knew all of that. I guess what I was trying to say more stuff like more interactive with other people on my friends list kind of like HOME on the PS3.

Yeah, I was kind of hoping for more as well as far as avatar use goes. Personally, I think this is just a way for Microsoft to start planting the seeds for the neXtbox, where avatar use will be extremely integrated.

[HawkMan]

But the Avatar in my sig, is not what I look like now, I changed it last night, and it has not refreshed, so something is going on.

the MG sigs only get refreshed ever so often, every refresh isn't a new picture, it's a keeping badnwidth usage down thing. and avatr changes take more time to register on their system than just latest game played

[HawkMan]

Is the community games channel online for anyone yet, and if so where is it or how do you activate it on the NXE, the old dash verson of it required some downloading of the DA toobox and stuff to get the old channel.

[Gabureiru]

Cool, upgrade. It tool like an hour though. Hope they implement more things to do with the avatars.

[»X«]

Since I have owned my xbox (Got it in 2007) I have never seen it crash on me. Never seen it freeze or corrupt. However soon as this update was put on, Fable 2 froze during play, the Marketplace froze for 10 minutes before springing to life and finally tonight, Saints Row 2 froze without warning. So I'm pretty ****ed off so far tbh.

[Massiveterra]

Is the community games channel online for anyone yet, and if so where is it or how do you activate it on the NXE, the old dash verson of it required some downloading of the DA toobox and stuff to get the old channel.

community games has it's own channel. I forgot how I got there, but it should be in either the marketplace or spotlight

[neoadorable]

so far i like the NXE, and the avatar i don't mind. he's not my sig because i like mine, it's simple. but if i'm on your friends list for the record the avatar is what i actually look like more or less.

is anyone else having a problem with the new resolutions? i'm on a 22" LCD that should be 1680X1050, but when i set to that the image doesn't fill the screen and takes a while to position correctly. any others with this?

[ozgeek]

I see a **** load of xbox 360 remotes on ebay for like a fiver

Some from hong kong. Anyone tried them? Do they work?

E.g http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/For-XBOX-360-DVD-REM...A1%7C240%3A1318

I bought one and it works great. Very cheap but it does the exactly the same and feels the exactly the same as the official MS ones. They are just the shorter version of the larger ones MS sells I mean no keypad but that is not what I want anyway. Yep it does have an eject button up top.

This is what mine looks like (scanned it):

[Mathachew Veteran]

so far i like the NXE, and the avatar i don't mind. he's not my sig because i like mine, it's simple. but if i'm on your friends list for the record the avatar is what i actually look like more or less.

is anyone else having a problem with the new resolutions? i'm on a 22" LCD that should be 1680X1050, but when i set to that the image doesn't fill the screen and takes a while to position correctly. any others with this?

What you should have in the end is a small black bar on the top and bottom of your screen.

[zach_]

Before the update, the aspect ratio was lost because your monitor stretched it to fill the screen. Now, the native aspect ratio of the 360 is kept but you get black bars.

I bought one and it works great. Very cheap but it does the exactly the same and feels the exactly the same as the official MS ones. They are just the shorter version of the larger ones MS sells I mean no keypad but that is not what I want anyway. Yep it does have an eject button up top.

This is what mine looks like (scanned it):

So they are actually knock-offs. My 360 came with a remote instead of a headset; the premium pack was different depending on region.

[Xerxes]

I've got my 360 running NXE now, I don't hate it as much as I though I did. It's ok, but I still have a few issues with it though. The picture seems to be been degraded, everything is all fuzzy and not clear. This smoothness people speak of, I'm not seeing it, as mine lags up abit :/ (it gets annoying sometimes) I'll admit it is slightly smoother then the old Dashboard but not by much. Also I'm finding it difficult to find things I normally had no trouble finding, but that will probably pass as I get used to it.

Ok, some things I actually like about it. I like how everything to do with your games is all together now. For example, say I have Mass Effect in the drive, I can select it in the "My Xbox" section and view additional details (like downloadable content available on XBLM) that I quite like.

The other features introduced by NXE are of little concern because; HDD installing, well I won't use that as I have a 20Gb HDD with only 4Gb free :p and I don't feel like getting ripped off buying a 120Gb one. Netflicks, well since I don't live in the US I don't get it. Everything else seems about the same as it was in the old Dashboard, just in slightly different locations now.

[zach_]

I don't hate it as much as I though I did.

:) That's what I've been waiting to hear.

[ozgeek]

Netflicks, well since I don't live in the US I don't get it.

I would suspect that Bigpond would provide Australian version of Netflicks...like they did with Media Centres.

[DigitalE]

You know what we need now?

An iPhone app to queue up downloads from marketplace.xbox.com!

[zach_]

impulse buying ftl.

[ck2k01]

Just signed up for a Netflix account. I've been thinking about it for the last year or so and this was just the nudging I needed to subscribe. Smart move on Netflix's part; I'm sure they'll get a ton new of customers out of this.

Overall, I'm very pleased with NXE. I couldn't be more happy to be an Xbox360 owner at the moment.