Xbox Live’s fall 2011 Dashboard update: everything you need to know – The Verge The Verge is about technology and how it makes us feel. Founded in 2011, we offer our audience everything from breaking news to reviews to award-winning features and investigations, on our site, in video, and in podcasts. 2012-03-26T05:49:04+00:00 https://www.theverge.com/rss/stream/2313209 https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/verge-rss-large_80b47e.png?w=150&h=150&crop=1 Nathan Ingraham <![CDATA[Comcast’s Xfinity On Demand for Xbox 360 won’t count against subscribers’ bandwidth caps]]> https://www.theverge.com/2012/3/26/2901563/xfinity-on-demand-xbox-360-bandwidth-caps 2012-03-26T01:49:04-04:00 2012-03-26T01:49:04-04:00
New Xbox TV Experience

A big part of Microsoft's major revamp of the Xbox 360 Dashboard late last year was lots of new video content, such as Verizon's FiOS TV, Vevo, and ESPN, but a few selections were going to be absent until early 2012. One of those was Comcast's Xfinity On Demand service, but an FAQ on the Xfinity site seems to indicate that it'll be launching sooner than later. The biggest item of note here for potential users of this service is the news that Comcast will not count streaming of Xfinity On Demand against users' bandwidth caps. As Comcast says on its site, "since the content is being delivered over our private IP network and not the public Inte …

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]]> Nilay Patel <![CDATA[Verizon FiOS TV for Xbox 360 hands-on]]> https://www.theverge.com/2011/12/13/2633693/fios-tv-for-xbox-360-hands-on 2011-12-13T15:38:44-05:00 2011-12-13T15:38:44-05:00
fios xbox 360

The Xbox 360 has been compatible with IPTV systems around the world for a while now, but the new Verizon FiOS Live TV streaming app is the first time we can remember a US cable company allowing customers to jettison their set-top box and watch streaming HD content on their TVs. We just tried it out and it basically works as advertised: there's a decent selection of channels and the image quality was solid when the HD indicator clicked on, although our actual FiOS TV image still looked better. There's some definite lag in the program guide and changing channels wasn't terribly fast, but overall it's pretty easy to figure out what's going on a …

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]]> Ross Miller <![CDATA[YouTube, Verizon FiOS TV, and more now available for Xbox Live]]> https://www.theverge.com/2011/12/13/2633547/youtube-verizon-fios-tv-xbox-360-availability 2011-12-13T14:29:21-05:00 2011-12-13T14:29:21-05:00
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Yesterday we got excited to see YouTube on our Xbox Live Dashboard preview, and now the video portal should be available to all Xbox 360 owners, along with Verizon FiOS TV, TMZ, MSNBC, and more. All should be available via the apps marketplace, and while anyone can download Verizon's app, you won't be able to use it at all without FiOS TV and internet.

Internationally, Microsoft also announced today Rogers on Demand for Canada, SBS on Demand for Australia , Blinkbox for the United Kingdom, and more. There are a number of big video apps still due out this month, including Crackle, Dailymotion, Vevo, UFC, and Vudu - those can be seen teasing …

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]]> Ross Miller <![CDATA[YouTube for Xbox Live now available for beta users]]> https://www.theverge.com/2011/12/12/2630957/youtube-xbox-360-live-availability 2011-12-12T14:54:57-05:00 2011-12-12T14:54:57-05:00
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Turns out "later in December" wasn't that long at all for YouTube. The video portal is now available as an Xbox Live app for beta users, rolling out less than one week after the new Dashboard. It should appear in the apps marketplace window. YouTube shares the same Metro UI look as the rest of the platform and features Kinect support as well as access to your Watch Later, Playlists, Favorites, and Subscriptions. You can like / dislike from within the video, show captions and get a glimpse of the description. No sign of comments anywhere, but many will regard this as a Good Thing. HD playback works clearly but not without a few infinite hicc …

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]]> Ross Miller <![CDATA[Xbox Companion for Windows Phone now available: hands-on pictures and impressions]]> https://www.theverge.com/2011/12/7/2618362/xbox-companion-windows-phone-availability-hands-on-pictures 2011-12-07T15:52:03-05:00 2011-12-07T15:52:03-05:00
Xbox Companion hero 1020

In addition to rolling out the new Xbox Live Dashboard, Microsoft today released an Xbox Companion app for Windows Phone users, and it's actually a pretty great virtual remote for navigating through the menus even while someone else is playing a game or watching a video. The phone can connect to your console whether or not it's on the same Wi-Fi network (although it helps if you are). From the main screen, you can quickly see how your Xbox 360 is being used, search for new games and media to play, and it even functions as a very basic remote control, with directional arrows and the A / B / X / Y buttons, that can be pulled up at any time from …

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]]> Ross Miller <![CDATA[New Xbox Live Dashboard update ‘in process of rolling out’]]> https://www.theverge.com/2011/12/6/2615011/microsoft-xbox-360-fall-2011-update-availability 2011-12-06T21:51:57-05:00 2011-12-06T21:51:57-05:00
XBL Dashboard with Netflix 2011 (1280 x 720)

After an unfortunate last-minute hiccup, Microsoft's Larry Hyrb, better known as Major Nelson, has announced via Twitter that the Xbox Live dashboard update is "in the process of rolling out to all Xbox Live members." We haven't seen the update land on our consoles yet, but reports have started rolling it that some users have.

We hope you like tiles - in addition to a new, Metro-style UI, the update adds Bing voice search, beacons, cloud saves, and more. Keep an eye for a much-improved Netflix app for Xbox Live today, too, as well as a few other new and / or upgraded apps. Windows Phone users can expect the Xbox Companion App sometime today …

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]]> Ross Miller <![CDATA[Xbox Live Dashboard update ‘slightly delayed,’ should start rolling out in next few hours (update)]]> https://www.theverge.com/2011/12/6/2615613/xbox-live-dashboard-update-delay-netflix 2011-12-06T12:31:03-05:00 2011-12-06T12:31:03-05:00
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Bad news, slightly good news. After announcing a 10:00AM ET launch time for today's Xbox Live Dashboard update, Microsoft's Larry Hyrb - known more affectionately online as Major Nelson - announced via Twitter that it would be "slightly delayed." A new timeframe will be announced later this afternoon / evening - which sounds to us like it might miss today entirely. In the meantime, our preview build seems to have lost the ability to successfully do Bing search, but this might just be a temporary affliction.

On the upside, the Netflix app has been updated - but only those in the preview build. The 74.62MB download provides rows and rows of …

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]]> Ross Miller <![CDATA[Xbox Live fall 2011 Dashboard update video walkthrough and impressions]]> https://www.theverge.com/2011/12/5/2611761/xbox-live-fall-2011-dashboard-video-walkthrough-demo 2011-12-05T00:10:23-05:00 2011-12-05T00:10:23-05:00
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With the new Xbox Live dashboard update rolling out this week, we thought it'd be fun to make a video walkthrough to showcase some of the new features you'll be using December 6th: a new Metro UI feel (à la Windows Phone, Windows 8, and the now-defunct Kinect Hub), Bing voice search, "Beacons" for finding multiplayer friends, and the 511MB of cloud storage you can enable… which by the way, only seems to work with new save files and nothing that was saved prior to the update. Bummer.

Overall, the new UI is a refreshing and much-needed update to 2008's New Xbox Experience, itself the first major revision after its "Blades" interface from laun …

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]]> Ross Miller <![CDATA[Xbox Live video partners listed in full, YouTube and FiOS TV coming later in December]]> https://www.theverge.com/2011/12/5/2610972/xbox-live-video-youtube-verizon-fios-comcast-netflix 2011-12-05T00:00:02-05:00 2011-12-05T00:00:02-05:00
Netflix for Xbox Live 2011

Though Microsoft has been forthright with the Xbox Live dashboard update (due out this week) and its content partners, it has so far remained largely silent on when those service providers would be joining up. The company tonight released a schedule / roadmap that extends through early 2012. Of the over forty partners listed, less than one-fourth are making the launch this week - many of those already out and receiving visual refreshes, like a particularly nice one we saw from Netflix that has more in-video features and a cool new aesthetic.

As is the case, what's more interesting are the apps that won't be making launch week. YouTube, Veri …

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]]> TC. Sottek <![CDATA[Xbox 360 to get 26 Verizon FiOS TV channels for subscribers starting in December]]> https://www.theverge.com/2011/11/29/2596231/xbox-live-tv-verizon-fios 2011-11-29T14:37:03-05:00 2011-11-29T14:37:03-05:00
Verizon FiOS for Xbox Live TV

Microsoft said back in October that it would be teaming up with various TV partners to bring more streaming content to the Xbox, and Verizon's just announced that it will be adding 26 live channels to the Xbox Live TV for FiOS customers sometime in December. Kinect voice and gesture support will also be included, meaning that you'll be able to control things by speaking to your Xbox and waving about. The service will stream TV directly through the Xbox via a standalone application, without the need for a separate set-top box.

To get the channels, customers will require an Xbox Live Gold membership and must be subscribed to FiOS TV and inte …

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