360 dashboard update

[spaceman]

did anyone else get a dash update tonight? or has my 360 gone divvy?

i had 3x progress bars...

 

[cu3ed]

Yea I got one, no clue what it was for.

 

[jpm]

Yeah I had one to, had a look up and found this.

Microsoft has started rolling out an Xbox 360 system update today to address the color space on video playback. Xbox owners complained of problems after the big Xbox 360 Dashboard update in December, and the software giant promised a fix which it is delivering today. The issue was related to black levels and washed out colors in videos and Microsoft's Major Nelson says the fix is "immediately notable in the dashboard."

The fix is rolling out to third-party applications over the coming months, so you may still experience color issues in apps until those are addressed. Microsoft has also increased the performance of the Dashboard with the latest update, addressing some concerns over the new interface. There is no word on the 1080p playback restriction, but we'll let you know if that is fixed in the future.

 

[cu3ed]

Would that be video playback say from the standard video player/ say reading a film from a USB stick?

 

[jpm]

It say video's played through media centre are fine, videos played through the native video player on the dashboard, zune and 3rd party apps were affected.

 

[spaceman]

ah cool, i didnt see any difference, i thought it had just downloaded the last dash again.

 

[5punk3monk3y]

Yeah I had one to, had a look up and found this.

Microsoft has started rolling out an Xbox 360 system update today to address the color space on video playback. Xbox owners complained of problems after the big Xbox 360 Dashboard update in December, and the software giant promised a fix which it is delivering today. The issue was related to black levels and washed out colors in videos and Microsoft's Major Nelson says the fix is "immediately notable in the dashboard."

The fix is rolling out to third-party applications over the coming months, so you may still experience color issues in apps until those are addressed. Microsoft has also increased the performance of the Dashboard with the latest update, addressing some concerns over the new interface. There is no word on the 1080p playback restriction, but we'll let you know if that is fixed in the future.

As always, what the patch really does is disable older 360's from being 'tagged

 

[TheVoice]

As always, what the patch really does is disable older 360's from being 'tagged

And the colour issues. DigitalFoundry did a piece on it shortly after the new dash was released.

 

[wannabedamned]

eeee, I havent updated mine yet and it's right here. I can pretend I'm psychic when turning on my 360.

*snaps fingers*

Update now!

HAZZAH!

 

[5punk3monk3y]

And the colour issues. DigitalFoundry did a piece on it shortly after the new dash was released.

Sorry I meant "yes and also this" but the security side is never noted by MN.

 

[utajoker]

will bcc iplayer ever come to 360?

 

[antijoke]

******* ******* me off now. Is live ****** or something i have been waiting for 25 minutes to download this ******* update.

Not happy, i just want to ******* play Skyrim.

 

[Witor]

How big is the update?

 

[niroe]

As always, what the patch really does is disable older 360's from being 'tagged

That's a good side effect of regular updates.