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More Fall Dashboard Details? – Rumour

Posted on November 18, 2007

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Xbox360Rally.com has a long list of what is rumoured to be included in the fall update. While most of the list is just optimisations and minor extras a few things did seem interesting…

1. Clan blade – I am starting to see the point of this
2. Grouping friends by games and other filtering – finally
3. Picture in Picture DVD playback – So the wife can watch while I play… (how I am going to fit my COD4 disc and Sleeping Beauty DVD into the same drive is still a mystery though)
4. Estimated time remaining on downloads – Because Microsoft has always been good at this 🙂
5. Screensavers, contain your excitement…

Anyway the entire list is after the jump, no DivX support and no parental timer so I don’t think this is the entire list yet…

Compatibility with 3rd party wireless controllers

Compatibility with messenger pad

Xbox Live Vision firmware upgrade, sharper image filtering

Many more Vision Cam settings

New screensaver settings – when away from Xbox 360, screensaver will play for optional time, before screen goes dark

New Xbox Live Arcade blade – where you can download, play and learn about Xbox Live Arcade

Brand new ?web based adver-games? flash games which aren?t downloaded, but are playable bite sized games, accessed via new Xbox Live Arcade Blade

New Screensaver option in Themes and Gamer Pics option in Marketplace blade

New functionality with Messenger, works with chatpad

New XNA Game Launcher for those that have the program, new options

New language, time and date settings

New ?advertising opportunities? in gameplay

Xvid support

New ?favourites? option via Xbox Live Arcade, can rate according to preference

IPTV Functionality – support for TiVo like PVR options. Will be able to record TV direct. Options include source by channel, director, actor and distributor

Filter friends list, will be able to filter friends via games

New clan support – will be able to launch clan games direct from dashboard, can ?fold? friends into new clan category in friends list

Better translations in settings and other options for Japanese, German and Spanish languages

New quick option to delete via X Button in memory viewer.

Option for having downloadable In-game content not inform when completed download

Option for having video content not inform when completed download

Faster settings for viewing unfinished video content downloads

New option in Games tab – beta and others, will be launcher for MMO and multiplayer betas

New option in Marketplace Games tab, search by letter, can be inputted via text pad or console

Smarter game settings – you can be messaged via publishers about new in-game content for your games

Picture in picture functionality for DVD Drive and some other updated settings

Improved USB Keyboard settings

Improved voice chat settings in game and from dashboard

Faster response times to Redeem Code settings

Option to play a Redeemed Code game straight after redeeming code

Console will now recognise low Hard Drive space, will inform you immediately if can?t download current item, will automatically download next available that is able.

Increased space size for gamerpics and dashboard themes

Themes can now be animated

Themes may now have sound effects

Better slideshow capabilities, new options added. New sound effects and integration with Hard Drive/ PC music capable.

New estimated timer for downloads, informing how long download will expect to take

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Last Updated: November 18, 2007

8 Comments

Craig Nicholson

November 18, 2007 at 21:02

Well I see that Xvid support is on the list, which means basically equates to DivX.

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XennoX

November 18, 2007 at 23:16

Not really Craig. XviD is .avi format, whilst DivX is .divx. Unless there have been some enhancements.

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RivaZA

November 18, 2007 at 23:33

.avi and .divx are just containers. They technically have nothing to do with the actual file format. I have quite a few .avi files that are DivX codec.

And last time I checked the Xvid codec could play DivX encoded file but the DivX codec could not play XviD encoded files. This was a while ago though.

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DuncThePunk

November 19, 2007 at 10:54

Xvid is open source, and DivX isn’t, and that’s pretty much the only difference as far as I know. As Riva said, Xvid has always been able to play both, but DivX can only play Divx. (My experience anyway!) I’m stoked for Xvid if this is true!

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Craig Nicholson

November 19, 2007 at 11:52

Yeah exactly boys, its basically the same thing. Its odd though that Microsoft would consider putting Xvid support into the Xbox 360 firmware as its impossible to license it correctly. Maybe they are just going forward with the same old brute force licensing tactic that they used on the rumble technology – use it now and settle the licensing costs out of court.

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XennoX

November 19, 2007 at 12:01

But if it is open source surely their is no commercial/enterprise license attached to it?

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Lupus

November 19, 2007 at 13:32

There isn’t, Xvid is open source and probably the reason why they’ve put it on. Though I’ve noticed Xvid encoding isn’t as smooth or as compressed as Divx encoding.

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doobiwan

November 19, 2007 at 14:39

“Brand new ?web based adver-games? flash games which aren?t downloaded, but are playable bite sized games, accessed via new Xbox Live Arcade Blade”

That sounds way cool, Desktop tower defense anyone?

On the DivX/Xvid thing – the CEO of DivX basically blew it last week and short of saying it outright (which he did but retracted) admitted divX is coming to 360.

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