Comments on: Xbox Dashboard Update confirmed, again [update]

By: johnny

johnny — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 09:17:48 +0000

hTfv73 Thanks for good post

By: Shizzle Games - Gamenieuws, gamebesprekingen en andere gameshizzle!! » Blog Archive » Gerucht: backgroud downloading Xbox Live nog deze maand?

Fri, 19 May 2006 07:08:59 +0000

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By: Sierra Planet News » Rumor: background downloading for Xbox Live this month

Sierra Planet News » Rumor: background downloading for Xbox Live this month — Fri, 19 May 2006 01:16:09 +0000

[…] 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. […]

By: Erzengel360

Erzengel360 — Tue, 16 May 2006 21:12:37 +0000

Aaron Greenberg (MS) confirms our news

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

By: GamerBabble » Blog Archive » Marketplace Download Queue…

GamerBabble » Blog Archive » Marketplace Download Queue… — Tue, 16 May 2006 19:40:52 +0000

[…] 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. […]

By: Erzengel360

Erzengel360 — Sat, 13 May 2006 17:51:51 +0000

article up again, cause it is posted everywhere else.

By: Erzengel360

Erzengel360 — Sat, 13 May 2006 16:44:19 +0000

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.

By: kobejonez

kobejonez — Sat, 13 May 2006 10:57:55 +0000

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.:)

By: Doug

Doug — Sat, 13 May 2006 02:49:54 +0000

Woohoo yay.

By: pmpboarder

pmpboarder — Sat, 13 May 2006 02:48:21 +0000

If the original Xbox can have 16-person chats, why the hell can’t the 360 have just 4?! That’s all we really need.

By: pmpboarder

pmpboarder — Sat, 13 May 2006 02:46:40 +0000

Well, I know that. But thanks. And that’s what I’d use it for is music. Because on my 360’s hard drive are 1000 songs. So that would clear up at least 3GB for me, plus I could actually put ALL the music I want, instead of just the songs I REALLY want.

By: pmpboarder

pmpboarder — Sat, 13 May 2006 02:44:06 +0000

Except I’m 19. And what settings are you talking about? I’ve done everything from changing my birthday on my hotmail account to make me 25 years old … to accepting 1st and 3rd party info from my 360.

So again, where can I find these settings?

By: guerrillax(eatSHROOMS)

guerrillax(eatSHROOMS) — Sat, 13 May 2006 01:02:25 +0000

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

By: trj156

trj156 — Fri, 12 May 2006 22:27:12 +0000

a web browser would be very nice, just give me text and pics and the ability to log in and do stuff on different websites. i dont need flash or any of that complicated stuff.

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 12 May 2006 21:55:12 +0000

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.

By: Reddragons

Reddragons — Fri, 12 May 2006 21:27:25 +0000

I hope a large CHEAP Hd come soon

By: todd

todd — Fri, 12 May 2006 20:04:33 +0000

Ditto… mac to 360 would be nice too, or allowing connect360 to make it happen for them.

By: Nino

Nino — Fri, 12 May 2006 18:54:05 +0000

Haha thanks, we got the translation from Erzengel himself (thanks pal) who is the author of the original article and I dont speak German so I missed that.

By: joe mamma

joe mamma — Fri, 12 May 2006 18:09:24 +0000

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.

By: Digitalhigh

Digitalhigh — Fri, 12 May 2006 17:49:38 +0000

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…

By: Hoffer

Hoffer — Fri, 12 May 2006 17:42:39 +0000

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.

By: Neejoh

Neejoh — Fri, 12 May 2006 17:33:43 +0000

I don’t think so. I think it will download a bit slower while chatting. In online gameplay it will stop completely though.

By: Koifim

Koifim — Fri, 12 May 2006 17:06:34 +0000

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

By: YLA G

YLA G — Fri, 12 May 2006 16:56:27 +0000

thx for the update

By: YLA G

YLA G — Fri, 12 May 2006 16:54:54 +0000

check your settings.. its because of the -18 year settings

By: Erzengel360

Erzengel360 — Fri, 12 May 2006 16:09:18 +0000

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.

By: Rossko UK

Rossko UK — Fri, 12 May 2006 15:37:49 +0000

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

By: todd

todd — Fri, 12 May 2006 15:26:24 +0000

Only thing you can put on a ext drive is mp3s and picts… you can’t copy over any trailers/demos/xbla, I’ve tried it.

By: Amjad

Amjad — Fri, 12 May 2006 15:20:20 +0000

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

By: TobiM2000

TobiM2000 — Fri, 12 May 2006 15:10:53 +0000

No problem
But the original news should be corrected, as it still says “6 parallel downloads”.

By: pmpboarder

pmpboarder — Fri, 12 May 2006 15:05:33 +0000

Haha, another blade for all the delivery places in your area. You call them up and “voice chat” with them. Yeah, that would be nice…

By: pmpboarder

pmpboarder — Fri, 12 May 2006 15:03:30 +0000

I don’t even get banners.

I’d rather see banner I can’t read than nothing.

By: pmpboarder

pmpboarder — Fri, 12 May 2006 15:02:36 +0000

Haha. The hairy one.

By: Studley

Studley — Fri, 12 May 2006 15:01:17 +0000

That makes more sense, cheers for the update.

By: pmpboarder

pmpboarder — Fri, 12 May 2006 15:00:30 +0000

Oooh, this is almost better than the article we’re commenting on! Great info, dude!

By: pmpboarder

pmpboarder — Fri, 12 May 2006 14:58:45 +0000

Funny you should say that. I’m at under 1GB right now. I’ll just buy an external USB hard drive. I dunno, 80GB?

By: Nekro

Nekro — Fri, 12 May 2006 14:50:41 +0000

We’re all gonna need bigger Hard drives soon.

By: George Podge

George Podge — Fri, 12 May 2006 14:46:36 +0000

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

By: TobiM2000

TobiM2000 — Fri, 12 May 2006 14:45:02 +0000

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.

By: pmpboarder

pmpboarder — Fri, 12 May 2006 14:35:04 +0000

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