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360's Spring update

Bop said:
People over at the Gamespot forums are saying if you call MS they will tell you May 8th 3:00AM PST... but then again it is the Gamespot forums.
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It's at least believable. They're apparently making some kind of push on the Windows side of things tomorrow, too.
 
From Major Nelson:

I just heard from the Dashboard team that we'll have to wait at least another day for the Dashboard update to be released. The update is not being released in the next 24-hours. That is all I know at this time, but I’ll get more information tomorrow afternoon (PT) and I will update this post as needed. Thanks for your patience and understanding.
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I would love to have 1680x1050 even with black bars. How hard is this for Microsoft to code?
 
I just wish this damned thing would drop so I could just go and brick my system updating. The wait is killing me. :D
 
so I could just go and brick my system updating
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That cracked be up, I'm looking forward to some of the download and video marketplace enhancements. Hopeflly no bricking
 
Dude, i have an elite which is not update proven. i will be very depressed if the elite bricks =[
 
Just get one of those lawyers that says "pay nothing unless we collect for you!!"
My major concern is that they hopefully haven't found a way to make the kb/m adapter useless. Cuz...if they did that, it would in effect "brick" my 360 because I would have no use for it. Call of Duty 3 with a gamepad? No thanks.....The only reason I got the kb/m adapter was to play Call of Duty 3 on the 360 because they didn't make it for the PC. So nyeh.
However, I am looking forward to several new racing games coming out this year. Forza 2, Burnout Paradize, and Dirt to mention 3.
Oh, and I love hot asian chicks.
 
Major Nelson just updated his site for the new dash update: ''Ok, we’re getting closer. I just learned that the May ‘07 dashboard release is set to be released just a few hours from now. To be more specific, the LIVE Operations team expects to start rolling out the update after 0200 PT tomorrow morning. I’ll make another post when the team start the roll out.''

I will be asleep.:(
 
Ub3rn00b said:
Just get one of those lawyers that says "pay nothing unless we collect for you!!"
My major concern is that they hopefully haven't found a way to make the kb/m adapter useless. Cuz...if they did that, it would in effect "brick" my 360 because I would have no use for it. Call of Duty 3 with a gamepad? No thanks.....The only reason I got the kb/m adapter was to play Call of Duty 3 on the 360 because they didn't make it for the PC. So nyeh.
However, I am looking forward to several new racing games coming out this year. Forza 2, Burnout Paradize, and Dirt to mention 3.
Oh, and I love hot asian chicks.
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How well does that kb/m adapter work? I was thinking about picking one up. Does it help you turn around any faster (main advantage of mouse over gamepad imo) or is it mostly just good for more steady aiming.
 
CDdude55 said:
Major Nelson just updated his site for the new dash update: ''Ok, we’re getting closer. I just learned that the May ‘07 dashboard release is set to be released just a few hours from now. To be more specific, the LIVE Operations team expects to start rolling out the update after 0200 PT tomorrow morning. I’ll make another post when the team start the roll out.''

I will be asleep.:(
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So thats about 3 AM Mountain time, lovely. Is it going to whoever is on at that time or is there a sequential order?
 
Just downloaded it.
By the way I live in Germany--> I think everyone is able to dowload it at the same time.
 
It timed out at least 5 times, but I eventually got it. Great update, they really weren't kidding about the speed increase. The whole system seems much more responsive now, and the low power dl feature is awesome. :D
 
Can anyone explain what I can change with "Reference Levels" (--> Settings)?
 
LLocal said:
Can anyone explain what I can change with "Reference Levels" (--> Settings)?
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I think it has something to do with color depth on the VGA. Or something like that. The colors definitely seem a bit more saturated to me, although that could be the placebo effect, I guess. I was never one of the guys bitching about the VGA output, though.

In any event, it's a nice little upgrade. I'm slightly shocked that the video marketplace stuff didn't get moved to the marketplace blade, but one thing at a time, I guess.
 
erwos said:
I think it has something to do with color depth on the VGA. Or something like that. The colors definitely seem a bit more saturated to me, although that could be the placebo effect, I guess. I was never one of the guys bitching about the VGA output, though.

In any event, it's a nice little upgrade. I'm slightly shocked that the video marketplace stuff didn't get moved to the marketplace blade, but one thing at a time, I guess.
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Eventually found it out my myself :)

---> Link
 
erwos said:
I think it has something to do with color depth on the VGA. Or something like that. The colors definitely seem a bit more saturated to me, although that could be the placebo effect, I guess. I was never one of the guys bitching about the VGA output, though.

In any event, it's a nice little upgrade. I'm slightly shocked that the video marketplace stuff didn't get moved to the marketplace blade, but one thing at a time, I guess.
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The Video Marketplace stuff is there under Media and Entertainment.
 
Someone I work with did the update and now their xbox wont read any games. MS said send it in and we will repair. Anyone heard of this issue?
 
jonw757 said:
Someone I work with did the update and now their xbox wont read any games. MS said send it in and we will repair. Anyone heard of this issue?
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Nope. A guy here in another thread said his bricked from the update.
 
*puts kamikaze bandana on head, takes sip of sake, eats cyanide pill*

I'm going in, wish me luck.
 
No brick, no brick! Yay!

Snazzy update. I like the marketplace blade and the overall system is more responsive.
 
Baredor said:
This is fantastic. Can't wait to get home and try this. If I can just survive bricking the thing, hopefully everything will look better on my 2407 now.
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IMO, it looks fantastic (on a HP f2105).
No washed-out colors anymore.
 
Nope. A guy here in another thread said his bricked from the update
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Yep that was me :(. MS just sent me an email about there "Spring Launch : New Features", there rubbing it in i think :p
 
I updated my system and it's just fine. I like the new features, although I'm still waiting for them to add multi-user voice chat. Maybe in the next update?
 
mine bricked --- i made a thread with a poll in it to see who else got the three red rings of death after the udpate.

I know there are at least two on this forum that the update bricked.

I can't believe my crappy luck. Gotta be less than a 1% failure rate......FORTUNATELY i've got half my 1 year warranty left.
 
LLocal said:
IMO, it looks fantastic (on a HP f2105).
No washed-out colors anymore.
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I didn't notice much difference in Gears of War in a short stint, but man does the dashboard look better! This update gave a lot of polish to the entire dashboard - lots of little things I'm noticing. Quite pleased with it so far.
 
I have a question about this. The update notes on xbox.com mention it supports h264 and xvid; does it support AVI and MKV containers or would it require transcoding still?
 
Man I want that controller keyboard now. It's too awkward to switch from controller to a full-sized keyboard in the middle of a game. A web browser would be nice as well, perhaps the fall update will have it.
 
So I guess 1080 rips wont even be playable under .264? I still cant get TVersity to transcode, Back to the Zune software I guess?
 
BronxBartoni said:
So I guess 1080 rips wont even be playable under .264? I still cant get TVersity to transcode, Back to the Zune software I guess?
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1080p rips at a supported bitrate should work fine. Or you could use VC-1, which, anecdotally, has gotten a real boost with this update as well. I agree that it's still a little bit on the imperfect side - but if they keep hacking away at this aspect of the 360, it ought to be in excellent shape by November or next May.

My own personal disappointment was that H.264 is still not available in the Windows Media Center interface - it's only available from streaming. This is apparently something that Microsoft needs to update in Windows, but it's annoying nonetheless.
 
I love the new black levels for VGA output. Then again, I was happy with it before, I didn't think it looked washed out, but it looks so much better now.
 
erwos said:
1080p rips at a supported bitrate should work fine. Or you could use VC-1, which, anecdotally, has gotten a real boost with this update as well. I agree that it's still a little bit on the imperfect side - but if they keep hacking away at this aspect of the 360, it ought to be in excellent shape by November or next May.

My own personal disappointment was that H.264 is still not available in the Windows Media Center interface - it's only available from streaming. This is apparently something that Microsoft needs to update in Windows, but it's annoying nonetheless.
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Anywhere to find a list of the supported bit rates? Nothin on xbox.com, I dont know where else to look.

EDIT- NM, found what i was looking for here http://blogs.msdn.com/xboxteam/archive/2007/05/09/spring-07-video-playback-faq.aspx
 
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