Thank god for that. It drives me mad when im downloading and i get a message.

Finally!

Maybe we’ll finally get custom gamerpic support!

hope there is a RSS reader in it.. and i hope that the language problem is solved in Belgium (we speak dutch, have a english dashboard but everything on the marketplace is french, dubbed french trailers, french banners etc)

WOOHOO!

IF these rumours are true, it’ll be a nice update indeed. Both download in the background and multiple downloads would be nice.

The overhauled marketplace have been mentioned by Major Nelson before. They now it needs reworking now that the marketplace grows in size.

Both the background downloads and a redesign of the marketplace is mentioned in Major Nelsons presentation: http://video.google.com/v...255732&q=major+nelson

To clear things up. He said “if all goes well the update will arive at the end of may”. So expect the update around that time. He also said this has been postet in a press release also, but it’s very diffucult to find it in there. I haven’t found it yet but you can be sure it’s not a rumor cause it’s from Microsoft directly. 100%. I really would like to know what these other features will be and whats up with the downloads. Are they running in the background while playing multiplayer (bandwidth?) or only while playing offline games? We will see.

a better music and photos structure is needed when using media connect to a PC … it’s just unusable if your photo/music collection is large

multiple downloads, AND able to play games at the same time? Beautiful. As long as it doesn’t impact on multiplayer speeds (i.e. online play not possible while download in progress).

Saying that, there’s nothing stopping people with a shared connection from downloading on their PC while they use their Xbox, so maybe it’s not a high priority feature for MS.

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Awesome!!!

I hope they add a built in ‘Dominoes Pizza’ menu, then I really never would need to get up! >_

It would have been nice to have this before all the E3 trailers/demos.

But then, I couldn’t even imagine how slow it would have been. So perhaps it is best it’s not possible to download 6 things at a time yet.

/cancelled out own post

I just read his Blog on www.dreisechzig.net and will translate another post for you which he made to clarify things (for people who are not german ) :

You won´t be able to have 6 downloads at the same time, but you can have up to 6 in a queue after you marked them, and they will be downloaded one by one. The download will automatically pause during Online Gaming to prevent laggy games. When you turn off the 360, the download will proceed immediately when you turn it on again.

He calls the update a “relatively big Online Update” and mentions some other functionality enhancements, so I´m very excited about it.

at long last PODGE was beginning to think this would never happen.

We’re all gonna need bigger Hard drives soon.

finally!!!!
i hope it’s not gonna get delayed!!

Is that “two new maps” thing a joke on the perfect dark bit?

I sent the updated info from him some time ago to xboxic, okay heres the updaten info as mentioned above:

The user marks a file to download and it will be put in an active queue downloadlist. There are 6 slots reserved in that queue. They will be downladed sequentially not in parallel (he corrected that staement)! If the Xbox360 sees there is bandwith available it will boost the download speed up. During online sessions the downloads will be paused to guarantee no lags. It’s also possible to turn off the console, after powering it back on the downloads will resume. When a download finishes the user will get a message that it has been downloaded.

considerations by myself:
The bandwidth managmend looks like to be for lag free chats in the dashboard or some other features which will be implemented additionally, i think so cause during online sessions it will be paused anyway as he mentions in his response to my questions.

So if you’re chatting, the download will stop?

6 slots should be more than enough. Granted, during E3, I download like 30 things. In the past, I’ve never wanted to download more than 6 things at once.

I’d really like to see more functionality with regards to video playback. It’s ridiculous that they require you to have a media Center PC and only support MS formats. I want to browse to my xvids and divx movies and watch them w/o dragging a computer’s performance down…

I would really like to see them allow up to 4 people to be in a private group chat.. I can’t believe that they can’t figure a way to partition the available bandwidth to allow for more than one on one.. To me, this is even more annoying than not being able to do something while its downloading.

I hope a large CHEAP Hd come soon

Will be great to be able to play gsmes while downloading demos or trailers. Maybe they will add a web browser, don’t know why they haven’t done this yet as the Dreamcast has been the only console to have one.

i could see a web browser soon, when firefox/mozilla takes even more of IE’s market.

Woohoo yay.

so does this mean you can d/l and do something else whilst it d/ls? cos thats awesome
A web browser would be great too.:)

Got an email that this information was leaked by a mistake of the product manager mentioned above. He got some trouble over there @E3. Because of this, I removed the article on my site until Microsoft “really” officially anounces it. It was wish by him to remove it. So stay tuned until end of may.

article up again, cause it is posted everywhere else.

[…] One of the features so many users have been wanting appears to be on the way.  The people at Xboxic have received information that background downloads are on the way.  The way they phrase it is that the user will be able to queue up to 6 downloads that will be downloaded sequentially (not in parallel).  It is also rumored that this update will include more features but no hint as to what those might be have surfaced.  Only time will tell what else Microsoft has planned for LIVE and Marketplace. […]

Aaron Greenberg (MS) confirms our news

http://www.oxm.co.uk/arti...confirms_dashboard_update

[…] Filed under: Culture, Microsoft Xbox 360, Online, Business Boris Schneider, Xbox Germany’s senior product manager, has allegedly confirmed (via Xbox Archiv) that an impending Xbox Live dashboard update will install a background downloading feature. In addition, users will be able to queue up to six content items, which will download sequentially (not simultaneously). Downloads will pause during online play sessions and while the console is powered off. […]

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