New Xbox 360 dashboard update begins rolling out today

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Posted on Tuesday 16th Oct 2012 at 9:04 AM UTC

The 2012 Xbox Live update has commenced and all subscribers should to have access to it over the coming weeks.

"To ensure a stable release, this will be a gradual deployment across subscribers and regions over the course of the next week," said Major Nelson.

"Our initial deployment will reach approximately three million consoles worldwide, with additional users being updated over the course of a couple weeks."

The update will include the following features:

Refreshed Xbox 360 Dashboard: We've updated the UI with a few things, including an updated layout with more tiles, a combined TV & Movies channel and, in the US, a Sports destinationInternet Explorer for Xbox: With Internet Explorer on Xbox, you can easily find and view internet content on the biggest screen in the house, including HTML5 videosRecommendations and Ratings: Recommendations will allow you to discover new favorites, generated based on a number of variables including the content you previously viewed, what your friends are consuming and what is most relevant and popular with our Xbox community. You can now rate content yourself and also see Rotten Tomatoes ratingsPinning: Pinning lets you personalize the dashboard by saving your favorite movies, TV shows, games, music, videos and websites right to the home screen. It's as easy as opening an app or a favorite movie and clicking "pin"Xbox Video: Formerly called Zune Video Marketplace, Xbox Video offers hundreds of thousands of TV shows and movies for buying or renting in instant HD streamingRecent: Previously called Quick Play, the Recent view gives you a list of movies, games, apps or other types of content that you most recently accessed on the consoleEnhanced Search: The last Xbox LIVE update brought Bing voice search to Xbox so you could use voice to search for movies, TV shows, actors, directors and artists. This year we added genre search to the list, so now you can search for action, comedy, romance, drama or sci-fi. Bing voice search now includes results for video across the Web, including YouTubeInternational Expansion of Voice Search: We've expanded our Kinect voice search capabilities to 9 new countries - Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Mexico, Italy, Spain, Austria, and IrelandXbox Music launched yesterday, while Xbox SmartGlass is also set to launch on the Windows 8 release date of October 26.

Tom has been writing about games for websites such as CVG and Edge since 2007. His favourite series include anything with football or Mario in it, Call of Duty, Metal Gear Solid, Splinter Cell and LittleBigPlanet.Read more

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