XBOX LIVE Dashboard Update scheduled for TODAY 5.00pm Singapore time and the negeris yg sewaktu dengannya he he he (2.00am Seattle time).
Source: MajorNelson.com

This post has been edited by Merdeka: Jun 7 2006, 08:58 AM

first piece of good news today

Got your Message

guess if today my streamyx out again i will personally go kaboom their hq building in cyberjaya!!!!

yahoo..yay..yahoo...yay...omg..yay.. and im not there to update it

5pm? lets see if they're right. I need the dash update! lol.

List of 125 New Features

cool. just wat i was looking for.

pspboy you no need to update lah just update us with contact information on that asian chick!

waaa bro judge-the. dun play play play ar i thought you married already? pspboy can give the contact information to moi

-8 new locales added (Chile, Brazil, India, South Africa, Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic and Slovakia)

hmm.......

hmmm how come what i've seen on the 8 new locales list was different?



This post has been edited by judge-the: Jun 6 2006, 01:26 PM

Eh? Where did that come from?

very funny judge-the...very funny....

screen capture from your link, List of 125 New Features above

hungary comes after poland dude.... not malaysia

Bro, you are not alone. By the way, is your locale list photoshoped?

Thanks for the news, Merdeka! Thanks Mobius for the list of new features.

hehehe like i said lah i screen captured AND...


This post has been edited by judge-the: Jun 6 2006, 01:39 PM

I knew it Good photoshopping though

yeah yeah good job...but i think it made some guys kinda excited

asian chick flashed me her !!...in my dreams....full usb keyboard support means?

It fully supports USB keyboards?

Lol.. i tot malaysia for real..

Full USB keyboard support meant.. if I remember corrrectly from Major Nelson's podcast.Previously it was only active when you brought up the soft keyboard for word input.

Now supposedlly the keyboard is always active like another device, arrow keys scroll, etc. etc... I think..

we'll see in a few hours

I wish they made it work the MS MCE Keyboard. Then you'd have everything on the keyboard, remote, wireless, etc.

Do you have the MCE keyboard MK? maybe it does now??? Well only a few more hours then we'll know.

Ahahaha no ler. I have no use for it. My MCE is more of a PVR/server than a full on media center.

so who's gonna constantly login and logout until the get the update available message?

i'm gonna turn my box on at 10pm
by that time it will be in for sure

Ding! Ding!.... it's 5pm. Anyone got the update yet?

Waiting a while before I turn the box on Plus lightning in front of me... scared kena fried

yeah.. raining in PJ area now. Need to wait.

hoho,

the update is up...

now my boxxie is upgrading himself....hope he will serves me better after the update.

damn scary ler,

please wait while the update is applied.
do not turn off or unplug your console!

what happened suddenly got blackout or screamyx disconnection? die loh.

If that happens you commence operation WipeOut Go to TotalNationalBlackout and TM and wipe them out

This post has been edited by MobiusVyper: Jun 6 2006, 05:20 PM

*in Darth Sidious voice* "Wipe them out..... all of them....."

the update very small only lah and also less than 3 mins. hmmm got so many improvements?

While you're downoading the update and the fuse trips you'll be ok... just hope it doesn't trip when it says "APPLYING UPDATE..." hehehehe

update your box now and stand a chance to get it fried as well...double bonus in the pj area

damn, i need to find a UPS for my xb

anyway, its 5.30 already, onyone got the update yet? im still in the office.... zzzz.... sian....

*edit: ok its here then, sorry, didnt read earlier posts

This post has been edited by hikaru_x: Jun 6 2006, 05:33 PM

already updated dont worry very fast less than 3mins only. and also under locale got "malaysia"

got malaysia??betul??

Trying to trick us again or not?

hehehe that was why i used "malaysia"

werd ..

I found locale "Bandar Sunway"


Updated.. Changed boot up to dashboard, tried the download que.. it works..
When you one back the console, it straght away resume the DL.
NICE.

got it updated..

Finally my 360 already updated.. yeah..

Wahaha...can rip music cd now! Life is good~

? why? before that already can rip music cd wor..

Is it? LOL..lim beh didn't know about it all along!

wahahaha...can't believe u didnt know tat LoL

你快点回火星去吧

This post has been edited by wcliang: Jun 6 2006, 08:48 PM

what i like is probably the music player thing!
easier to use now..

before this rip cd...now rip song?

Not sure if its streamyx or because of the update, but
downloads on XboxLive Marketplace has been stable even
after 2 hours of continuous downloads of DEMO.
No disconnections whatsoever + percentage seems to
be accurate now.

Can someone confirm?

They fixed the percentage screw up thing and about stable downloads... Don't know about that mine has been always stable

This post has been edited by MobiusVyper: Jun 6 2006, 10:32 PM

last time also can just rip selective songs, not entire cds.

oh yeah..hmm

I think more importantly now is that since downloads occur in the background they basically set it to retry indefinetly so I doubt we'll ever see the disconnect message again *crosses fingers*

Seems like MS didn't do anything about the hacked firmware.. yet.

I wish they let us choose the bitrate of the music that we rip. Currently the quality is damn crappy. Comparing the the music that's straight from the CD and the ripped version is like day and night

A question for those connected with VGA connection. Play a DVD on your 360. Does the 360 now upconverts it to resolution other than its 480p?
There are reports that with the new update, the 360 now works basically like those expensive DVD player that have the upconverting capabilities. Native DVD resolution is 480p, but there are commercially available DVD players that can upconverts the video feed to 720p and 1080i.

hey string, i'm on VGA HD connected to our 42" plasma. usually what happens is that whenever i pop a DVD in, the reso drops to 480p. but after the update, i checked.. and the reso didn't drop, instead it stood at 720p just like what i've set the 360 on. what does that say?

Congratulations! Your Xbox 360 now is an upscaling DVd player!

All the more reason for those who hadnt experienced image upscaling on DVDs before to try out the VGA connection.

I had upscaling through component using my HD-850 Samsung DVD player, 720p and 1080i, but looks like the 360 is now a two-in-one, the ultimate console + upscaling DVD player! Hooray!

Does it work through component or just VGA?

The problem is the console is region locked which means I can only use my old pirated DVDs only

An interesting article about upscaling DVD players

http://www.hometheaterfocus.com/blog/archi...08/02/2227.aspx

This post has been edited by arj: Jun 7 2006, 01:35 AM

Only via VGA. Microsoft is bound to face MPAA's wrath if they do that via component connection. Funny thing is, VGA and component are both analog and unsecured, so why only VGA?

Pirated DVD only? If you can be sure that your pirated DVDs are copoed exactly from its source and a one-to-one copy without downscaling or is original source touched, then it should be good i think.

Yeah because pirated discs are region free

I know they are region free, but since they are pirated, you can never know if they (one-eyed pirates) have faithfully copied the movie one-to-one or messed around with the original source, just to fit it into the pirated DVDs.

Holy Shit Holy Shit Holy Shit Holy Shit!

Those with MCE paired with your 360 will FLIP!!!!!

I SALUTE you Microsoft!

Remember the VGA only upscaling for your DVDs? NOT ANYMORE!

Those with movies inside your MCE PCs will have ALL your movies UPSCALED TO the resolution you set on 360! That means, ALL my movies , stored in the MCE , ripped at 480p, now shows up at 1080i/720p! Pure EYE CANDY!

Thank you SO MUCH MS! I <3 U!!!!!!!

My Matrix movies in 720p/1080i! All Pixar movie awesomeness in 720p/1080i! Bloody Star Wars Episode I till VI, in 720p/1080i!! I died and gone to HEAVEN!

The next step here is to find higher quality video sources (such as from HD-DVDs and Blueray discs, or WMVHD movies) at 720p and higher quality, and rip them one-to-one at original resolution.

This may be Microsoft's preparation for the upcoming HD-DVD addon not to far in the future.

Have you tried comparing to the image produced by your HD850?

Yep! the HD850 wins by a smidgen, probably due to the fact that it's connected via DVI port-to-port. The 360-MCE is OTA with component at the 360's end. DVI versus component = digital vs analog, so the results are apparent.

But im happy that MS did it anyway. Before this, i had to resort using the 4 different zooms in MCE to make sure i get the video full screen, and without squashed or elongated image (wrong aspect ratio). With this new update, it STICKS to the 360's resolution, and coincidentally, i ripped all my DVDs at their nativeresolution, so it looks gorgeous!

For the first time, I have successfully downloaded a DEMO. Left my
unit on throughout the nite, did not disconnect throughout. Previously,
downloads disconnects every 10 minutes or so. So, this confirms it was
XboxLive and not Streamyx's problem. Poor Streamyx, kena blamed
for nothing.

...or perhaps it's the new dashboard update that will auto-retry?
Previously i use streamyx download, sometimes got disconnect problem.
After i come uk, download is just smooth...no dc..yet.

you better go find some wood to touch, as electronics are unpredictable

EDIT: typo

This post has been edited by ah_chak: Jun 7 2006, 08:57 AM

OK I on 360 and received updates request at abt 1915hrs.

everything/updates went smoothly for about 5 mins.

Once it has complete the updates the console will reboot itself relax dont panic mai kan cheong, video output will momentarily disconnected and a few sec later the 360 Shitake mushroom will appear and grow back he he he..

profile updated and there you have it an updated dashboard.

anyone got any updates problem so far?

notice China 1 of the new locale ......wowo ...where is Malaysia

yes I realize that, nvm can share with SG..

who said dont have... got lah malaysia in my screen capture

Last nite, have 2 downloads on the Active Downloads list. DEMO1
downlaoding while DEMO2 pending. This morning, DEMO1 not on
the list anymore, assumed it was downlaoded. DEMO2 at 7%.
Went to DEMO GAMES section, nothing there. Tried to locate
downloaded DEMO1, no where in sight.

Downloaded videos are listed at the MOVIE TRAILER section. Only
DEMOs got nothing. What is wrong? Bug?

Save Target : Xbox360 HD

^ the plot sickens..

My Bankshot Billiards 2 is still out there somewhere, i downloaded it and placed it on active download. I checked this morning, the queue is gone, but my download is no where to be seen. I checked the memory, and all i see is a /!\ Unknown Game. OMGWTF?

SAme here for both cases. I've put Lost Planet demo and Test Drive Unlimited demo on queue, Lost Planet disappeared fro the queue so i assumed it has finished downloading. Went to the appropriate blade, and its not there?

Then i went to the Memory setting in the System blade. Checked the HDD, and lo and behold, it registered as an Unknown game. Put the Lost Planet demo back on queue( Marketplace and chose download again), it went back , and registered as "only 15 % complete"! So in my case it is still STUPID BLOODY TMNET!.

The redownloads resumes....

Another point to ponder. All downloads halts when you go into Media Extender mode. Is that supposed to happen? Is the bandwidth that demanding?

unlucky i dont have broadband. anybody can help me update my xbox360?

String : I guess the ppl at MS decided that they don't want to take chances when streaming movies off the MCE and thus turns off downloading when you're running Media Center mode.

I guess so....if only they could cater for both at the same time. Or is it a question of hardware? The Wireless Adapter for the 360, is it capable of logging onto 2 SSID? Coz i set the 360 using "G" for all Xbox Live purposes, while using "A" for MCE.

If this is not possible, i distinctly recall that im still able to receive "who is online" notification" even while im watching movies on MCE. I guess that notification would take minute bandwidth requirement compared to download huh?

if you willing drive to bangi then you can tumpang update your dashboard here

Take up bro Judge's offer, or hop over to TNL Imbi now. Im getting my Asian 360, and will be updating the unit there straight away using Wireless Adapter. Curi line from next door SSID.

thanks brother string and judge. i think i take judge offer. so when u free?

my place is at bdr seri putra/bukit mahkota. hehehe a bit far lah to be precise 24kms from sg besi toll. if you coming from kl heading towards seremban, you'll see putra mahkota toll exit. putra mahkota toll exit is between bangi and nilai nirvana memorial park/nilai rest area. i am free during working hrs that means 9am till 5pm. after 5pm not free already because full time father/husband.

anything just pm me back.

I got to get my update later. By the way, stringfellow, if the upscale is just available on VGA, that's mean I can only view it in my monitor but not TV? Or only the HDTV has VGA port?

hehehe...good 1...gonna change to slovakia (o_- lll)

This post has been edited by wcliang: Jun 7 2006, 08:23 PM

Many HDTV have VGA port.

Monitor AND HDTVs or HD-Ready TVs that supports VGA connections. The only other way to access this upscaling is via MCE-360 pairing.

Thank you both for the information!

After I applied the update, the downloads become so smooth!

This post has been edited by Mr.LKM: Jun 8 2006, 01:03 PM

too bad it didn't have auto resume and auto connects, which what i am hoping to counter stupid tmnut.