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My 1st experience...
Thursday, November 20, 2008

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The "New Xbox Experience" that is (what did you expect anyways). I recently downloaded the mandatory update for my white box just a little while ago. My 1st impression right of the bat visually was that it looks slightly sleeker than the tried, tested, and now obsolete blades of the old dashboard.

The Dashboard

The new avatar is a nice addition especially for those customizing junkies but might feel slightly gimmicky for others just to rival the Mii's and the forever delayed HOME and it's avatars. (don't know if MS avatars will evolve into something more interactive down the road though)

My Avatar

The new background themes are somewhat bittersweet, since you can still use your old background themes from the old dashboard and now have the option to put your very own custom wallpaper as your background. To do this just go to your picture library then select your portable device where you placed your custom background image, highlight it then press button "Y" in your controller. What makes it bitter is that with all that has been said, there is a silvery thingee that covers half the screen almost the entire time for you to not fully enjoy your old or custom added backgrounds unless you have a strange fetish for badly cropped images caused by that silvery thingee contraption.

The best features for me personally are:

1.) Netflix. if your a movie buff, the small price for streaming thousands of videos (even some in HD) is a steal.

2.) You can now delete games from the games played list that has no achievements. To do this just press the controller guide button, go left to the games section and choose achievements. from there choose the games with zero achievements and press "X" button do delete it.

3.) You can now install and play your games on your hard drive. Which means good bye to dirty disk errors and hello faster load times!

The new dashboard might take me a little while to get used to, but it's still a pleasant experience overall nonetheless.

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