The Xbox 360 November '06 Fall Update is heading your way

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Celeron655 — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 05:39:14 GMT

Great Updates!

Im looking forward to the HD-DVD player (hope it comes out in New Zealand soon)

I know its been said before, but i have to say it again.. =P

Dvix/xvid playback please! (even if its downloadable like the ipod playback support) its the only reason i still have my DVD player.

576p/720p/1080i/1080p output via Component for DVD playback (maybe its not possible?)

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Shawn Oster (MonocularJack) — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 08:07:34 GMT

GREAT JOB!!!

As a software developer I know how many late nights, missed romantic evenings and general eyeball fuzziness any major release creates and you guys have done a rockstar job! A few things...

First, You stole all my thunder as I was about to ask about codecs but hey, I think WMV 9 is actually a pretty darn good looking.

Second, thanks for the few MCE enhancements I noticed in the list. The original reason I bought an XBox back in the day was so I could use it as an extender and seeing continued support warms my wee heart.

Lastly, I'm looking forward to seeing the Zune in action and how it interacts with the 360. I dream of being able to use the Zune as a form of memory card as well as down downloading video content from the Marketplace, via the 360, and transfer it to a Zune for viewing and then replaying on a friend's 360. Not too much to ask, is it? *grin*

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PG4 — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 09:23:41 GMT

For those that use XB Stream to stream their podcasts over to the 360, version 1.4 is now out - which supports Video streaming :) You can get it over at www.xbstream.com.

Btw great job Xbox Team, one suggestion is could you please add in 1440x900 resolution for VGA? I ask this because it's a common resolution that widescreen monitors use for 19-21" monitors.

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JJ — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 09:43:38 GMT

I would like too to dump my standalone DVD player and use X360 as "center of my living room" device, but xvid and divx just ARE 'defacto' standard functionality in standalone DVD players and without it X360 is lacking.

If standalone players manage to include xvid & divx feature why not X360?

I am even willing to PAY money for that feature!! 10-15€/$ should take care of licensing fees & some...

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Jorrit — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 10:12:39 GMT

I think it's very nice that you publish such an extensive changelog. It's really appreciated.

I just wonder why you are pushing USB keyboards like this :) Perhaps a preparation for something coming soon?

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Alex — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 11:34:17 GMT

Im also bit dissapointed that still no support for other codecs.

One question, on my XP MCE I have to look after codecs that are installed so that playback through windows media player is able to play Divx etc. Is it possible for MCE to send the codec it would use to play a file locally to the 360 for that session so that the 360 is able to play more than just WMV?

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Alex Atkin UK — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 13:14:04 GMT

Why only the ability to play WMV off CD/DVD when we can play MPEG1/2 as well if we stream from Media Center? I had hoped to no longer have to have my PC turned on in order to reduce the noise when watching HDTV stuff recorded off sattelite but alas it wasnt meant to be. :-( Surely playback of MPEG files without Media Center is no harder than with it?

How many people burn DVDs full of WMV video files? Probably not many compared to people burning MPEG2 captured straight off sattelite. VERY dissapointed as not everything can be bought on HD-DVD any time soon, especially as things like Harry Potter are nasty widescreen compared to the TV versions which are nice 16:9. I HATE black bars at the top and bottom, I mean the whole point of buying a widescreen TV is to NOT have that.

Other than that, I love the UI improvements. The new graphics for Marketplace and XBLA are MUCH nicer looking and the categories are much improved.

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Marchand — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 13:59:07 GMT

Format choice? This is one area in wich the xbox 360 fails badly. Even the cheapest DVD players on the market has got the ability to play DIVX, XVID,AVI ext.ext.... why not the Xbox 360??? In my opinion the xbox 360 will never be the full media center entertainment hub without these formats! This is very disapointing to know that these format will never be used because of DRM issues. (Contol control control!!!)

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Aaron — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 14:19:12 GMT

Nice update. As a 50Hz-lovin' aussie, I'm particularly happy about the 50Hz HDTV support (at least for [HD-]DVD). Does anyone know if this support extends to MCE - upsampling the 50Hz TV signal to the 60Hz XBox HDTV out is the only downside to an otherwise awesome product!

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Miguel — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 15:56:08 GMT

Good update, but I can't set 1920x1080 on my CRT 19" screen on the 360 (my screen goes black), whereas I can set it in Windows XP, from 60Hz to 75Hz.

My screen is a ViewSonic E92f+SB UltraBrite, and can support up to 2048*1536@60Hz, so it's the 360 that send the wrong signal.

Thanks :)

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aross6 — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 16:23:22 GMT

I'm very happy w/ the update!!! I use a prog called River Past Video Cleaner to convert my files to wmv and burn them to disc. I just recently ripped the video of my wedding from my DVD-Cam, converted the file to wmv, and now can burn it to a disc to throw in the box! A+++ Microsoft!! You're moving much much closer to a complete living room media hub!

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slider2nl — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 18:04:32 GMT

ok glad to see support for video streaming but only wmv, is not enough.

mpg and asf is a small update that can be added to the 360.

ok it's not divx or xvid but it is better than nothing.

so a small update to support 2 extra codecs doesn't sound like a problem..

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fdezjose — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 20:08:51 GMT

I just got my 360 from repair (I had to because of the 3 red rings of death problem) and I downloaded the update and *boom* Error 71 Contact MS Support. I called and they told me that several people had already called for that and it happened the same way, after downloading this update... Now I have to send my 360 again for repair, another month...

P.D. No, my 360 wasn't modified or with a modified firmware...

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Chris — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 20:49:44 GMT

You know i love my 360, and i love XBL and you guys do a great job, but come on theirs some basic stuff here thats still MIA... Mainly Xvid and Divx support, come on every person thats a video geek wants it and now that the ps3 is shipping with mpeg4 sp ... theirs no reason the 360 shouldnt handle it!!!

Why is the zune is releasing with Mpeg4 support h264, and a bunch of others but the 360 is still gimped to only wmv? Don't get me wrong i love wmv, but most of my vids are divx! And reencoding takes too long and kills quality!

Can't we get the divx codec via a seperate download optional like the optional ipod support pack???????????????????????????? PLEASE GOD DO IT! I mean how many people need to beg for it?

Then theirs the other stuff people are upset about ....

No Guild/Clan Support STILL even after rumors of it coming

No Conference chats (4 person video for those with BW to support it)

No IE, no i dont want it thta bad but many do and PS3 and wii will have it.

No RSS / Blog cast support? Come un guys bring the news to our living room!

No video marketplace?/??? come on with MSN Video, and now the Soapbox why arent we seeing freely available video on demand to our xbox360 media??? A free interface to MSN Video and Soapbox would be wicked! And no one at Microsoft even sees the connection???? How about TV shows, i'm more than willing to pay for them, but still we cant get them????

and most importantly where is the next backwards compat update????? No word out of MS on this... and thats one thing 360 fans are getting crushed on the ps3's back compat and the 360 still lacking... And god forbid microsoft point out the 360's upscaling and the fact the 360's back compats actually improve the xbox1 games (and upscale dvds from what i recall being rumored but havent checked)

Why is the xbox team blog so ... so.... not updated, no real 2 way communication... how hard is it for you guys to get a newsgroup on the betanews.microsoft.com site???? I mean i'm constantly testing and talking with MS people but never any from microsoft... if feel like majornelsons our only form of interaction

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Chris — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 20:52:31 GMT

BTW if you havent noticed many people have said they'd be willing to PAY for the divx codec on the 360! And i'm one of them proper AVI/Divx support and i'll drop down 400-800 points for it no problemo as long as it works and its mine forever im happy! So why not contact the divx team and start licensing it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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cone56 — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 21:35:17 GMT

All I want is 4-way chat.

Its not asking for too much

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Mattias — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 22:05:35 GMT

http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/14201

"The image, video and music formats included in the features of the PS3 are similar with the formats supported by the PSP. In the video category, Sony has implemented PS3 support for MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 SP and MPEG-4 AVC/H.265 formats. As regarding audio, the included formats are: AAC, Wav, MP3 and ATRAC. JPEG, PNG, BMP and GIF are the image formats supported by the PS3."

At least match the competition ;)

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SteveC — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 22:42:49 GMT

Sounds good, but the number one feature I hear from friends is the support for streaming other format

After that, next item is IE on the 360

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slider2nl — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 00:25:24 GMT

I think if the xbox team takes a better, closer look at major nelsons website after 500+ post about 3 red lights the codecs support, and the multi video/voice chat.

I think the team had the chance to put the functions build in if they delayed the update i don't mind to wait a extra month.

Now some people are very disapointed about some features not build in this update

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slider2nl — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 01:06:03 GMT

Ok what i think about the dashboard..

1: I hate the buttons design (the ones with the pictures in it) old one was good enough, wast of space for new functions.

2: streaming video A++, the bad side, no zoom in/out where is 16:9

support, no codec support divx and xvid, mpg, asf, ram, qt, ect..

3: This will be a long story..

First off the way things are organized in the dashboard.

in the marketplace i can find arcade, and in the games tab under arcade itself? i see the same thing or i am seeing double.

Second, every where i look i see video here video there (game videos and videos) keep things together.

As for the structure to make it easier.. Means that all the video's you download will be placed in the media tab under videos

make a categorie like this:

Video -> Console/computer

Console -> all videos -> game videos -> muziek videos -> movies/movie trailers ->

comunity videos -> tip and tricks videos -> ect..

Every video you download must be placed on 1 spot and organized in categories.

and for the marketplace there you can download videos, trailers ect.. the same thing is for the media tab video marketplace?

throw the video marketplace away and let it be in the marketplace itself.

Now you need to switch fom tab to tab to see and to get what you want, not user friendly.

remove the game videos button from the games tab and replace it with something like (last played demo)?

all the space you guys try to fill up doesn't make any sense. I know you want to listen

to us people and that you want to give us more features. But there is no real structure in the design of this new update.

it is a mess.

4: what i really like is the background improvements. and the hardware update the rest is good and works.

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PG4 — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 01:39:39 GMT

Chris,

You can view RSS feeds, and listen/view podcast/vidcasts on your Xbox 360 with XB Stream - www.xbstream.com. While it is not a MS product, it still works :)

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Sportsunit — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 01:49:21 GMT

I just wanted to share my thoughts on the update. First, video streaming is a good start. To enhance the experience, I would suggest adding more zooming options. A 720 x 480 video shows up with black bars on the sides, as well as the top and bottom on my HDTV. This should not be the case. Bars on the top and bottom are tolerable, but there is no reason for bars on the side. Media Center has 4 zooming options, which makes it easier to view 16:9 content. Perhaps, this should be added to the 360.

Next, fast-forward and rewind controls are definitely needed for the music player. In fact, a lot needs to be done to the music player, including adding cover art for albums.

It appears to me that the marketplace menu hierarchy is completely in shambles. It may need to be completely redone. There is too much redundancy and excessive button presses for simple activities, such as finding new game trailers.

As for new ideas, integration with the Zune marketplace would give us access to premium content. A way to download music and music videos with our points would truly turn the 360 into a media hub.

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DAK ATTACK! — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 10:13:18 GMT

Well my unit no longer works after the fall update, it keeps looping the request to upgrade and then moans of no connection. I am not alone there are many of us out there with this problem and no word from MS.

PS: I DO NOT HAVE A MODDED UNT AND IT HAS PLENTY OF AIRING AS ITS ON A HI-FI SHELF. IT IS ONLY 4 MONTHS OLD AND NOW DEAD.

Upset me?

Hell yea!

So now I have to send it to MS, pay £40 for the delivery charges and recieve a refubished unit instead of my 4 months old unit...seems very wrong and I can't believe that MS could release such a buggy upgrade.

Kinda makes sense why Sony are no making the PS3 upgradable, sounds like they are trying to make sure the uses can use their devices rather than just ripping them off.

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PG4 — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 19:35:34 GMT

DAK ATTACK, I've had to send my unit in 2 times already, but each time I received the exact same unit back. Likely they only send you a refurbished unit if there is a major hardware problem.

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Speed7 — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 19:59:48 GMT

Hey I have a question and I figured that this would be the place to ask it besides I'm almost certain that calling India would be no help and its not mission critical. But I've had 360 on launch day and you know the places where featured content is supposed to be featured (ex. on Xbox Live Blade below the market place button but above the DVD drive button or the big on in featured content) well they have never worked for me. I've seen them work on my box with other live accounts before but not with mine and I thought that maybe you guys had an idea as to whats up. I thought that getting the update might fix it but no luck.

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gamma — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 06:53:26 GMT

I was hoping you guys were going to fix the dashboard advertisement bug. I created my account when I was 17, and I'm 21 now, so because I'm flagged as having a "minor account" I can't view the advertisements on the dashboard. If anyone is also experiencing this issue feel free to vent at the Xbox forums. Maybe they'll decide to fix this issue.

http://forums.xbox.com/16/1875409/ShowPost.aspx#1875409

I personally think the best solution is to control whether a user can view the ads or not via the family settings blade.

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Speed7 — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 18:59:30 GMT

Thanks for the link. I'm glad I'm not the only one having this issue I will definitely post on that thread.

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WoodmasterFlash — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 16:58:19 GMT

I absolutely love the update, but I was wondering one thing.... is the team still working on backwards compatibility?

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matt — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 17:14:45 GMT

thanks for bricking my 360.

PS3 is now the way to go.

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iainl — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 22:32:25 GMT

ARRGH!

Guess who just spent 5 hours re-encoding a H.264 file to MPEG2, because the outdated FAQ on the official XBox.com site claims that it is one of the supported formats for streaming.

Well, it is, but only if I install Media Centre, and not WMV11. That makes no sense to me whatsoever. Furthermore, my encoding program only encodes WMV9 in an AVI wrapper, and not directly to .wmv, so that won't work either.

I'm pretty annoyed right now, for what seems to be a purely political decision.

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BobaFett — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 13:12:25 GMT

Thank you for the update. Nice to see that things are continuously improving. Keep up the good work!

However, divx/xvid support is still lacking. Even cheap dvd players has this now. Shurly, the mighty Xbox 360 should be able to to this?

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Jason Bechtoldt — Sun, 12 Nov 2006 10:21:02 GMT

I really hope you can help us HD CRT owners who suffer from horrible black levels on HD videos and games under 720p or 1080i. (although most games have brightness sliders) the xbox live videos and HD-DVD unit do NOT!

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devin — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 23:28:29 GMT

how come you cant download the update onto a disk from the computer because with dial up internet i cant get on xbox live.

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DV — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 07:35:50 GMT

All of you.

if you have a MCE, encode the files to WMV with the WME9 (windows media encoder 9) and add it to the My videos folder so you can see it.

For XP users, Download ZUNE SW and add the folder were your video files are (in WMV).

Now for the xbox team. Will be a support for streaming of DVD files in their native format? I mean, I have a MCE and I backup my DVDs in the HD so my little son does not kill them. And when he wants to see elmo, I can browse from the Xbox 360 for the DVD files in the MCE rather than look for the DVD and pop into the Box?

I thing this will be a great approach to comercialize the MCE so it can work as one with the Xbox 360 (more than now)

Thx

PS: stop saying "i'm getting a PS3, this will not fix your issues + HD DVD is the new VHS

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XGC Tha Body XL — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 02:17:30 GMT

Umm Nice updates, but no improved chat rooms, You can still only talk to one person at a time in the dash board, we need like public and private rooms, for meetings, and multiple person chat. come on, halo 2 can do it, why can't the dashboard?!?!!

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Stuart Anderton — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 14:48:56 GMT

> Video support for 50-Hz HDTV modes (DVD and HD DVD only).

Any sign of supporting 50Hz when in Media Centre mode? The 60/50 convertion makes the 360 unusable unless you like juddering!

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Randy Counts — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 15:37:00 GMT

If I buy a Xbox 360 can I connect it up wirelessly? My computer is upstairs and my HDTV and 360 will be downstairs (100 feet away). Will this work for xbox live and all downloads?

Randy

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Randy Again..... — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 18:45:27 GMT

I’m looking into buying an xbox 360. Once I get the wireless adapter how hard is it to connect to my wireless network? My desktop is upstairs with Ethernet cable going to my wireless router. My cable modem (roadrunner) is hooked also to the wireless router. I have a laptop that I can take ANYWHERE in the house and still have a good broadband connection. The 360 and HDTV will be downstairs (100 feet from router). With this set-up will I have any problems? Is it hard to configure PC / 360 to hookup wirelessly? Any comments would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

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cgfelker — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 21:20:01 GMT

I just updated my unit and now when I connect my VGA cable it freezes up in the begining logo. The component works as well as the composite but I bought that VGA cable for a reason. It was working fine until the update. I feel I shouldn't have to pay for a repair considering that your update is responsible for this. I am seriously considering never going back to a microsoft product when it comes to video games. Does anyone have this problem? And yes I have called it in and yes I have tried everything this site suggests and still no solution.

It my box bricked? Thanks Microsoft!!!

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Chris — Sun, 10 Dec 2006 15:31:23 GMT

DamniT!!!!

dont have live

Cant get Live!!

stupid Updates

why cant we have alternitives for downloading them!!!!!!

Ahhhhhh and im sick of buying original xbox games only to find that the "LAZY" xbox people havent made them availible yet!

Its probily been explained already but why the F**K dont they play already!

Increase revenue for Microsoft perhaps?

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Spocsta — Sat, 23 Dec 2006 05:05:46 GMT

Please, Please, Please - Xvid and Divx - I too have to keep my DVD player as it supports these formats - How nice would it be to just have my xbox in the lounge - I too wouldn't mind paying £10 - £15 to have the ability to play these formats

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WHY DOESNT IT DO WHAT IT SAYS ON THE TIN — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 00:24:56 GMT

Its quite simple as everyone else says, what is the point in having HD, and being able to stream movies, when you have to convert to a format which ruins the quality, therefore dont use function!!! and even with this problem there isnt a tempory solution offerec, very dissapointing, almost ruins having one. Cant put my bemusement into words!!!

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ROBOSLIDER — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 15:52:06 GMT

Hello!

A few things I would like in a future update:

50Hz compatibility with the VGA cable.

Auto switching between PAL-50 and PAL-60 so I don't have to change cables and TV mode just to access the PAL setting.

The ability to choose what notifications you want to see, e.g. enable/disable online/offline ones, enable/disable game invites, enable/disable chat invites, etc, so I could turn online/offline ones off, but still see game invites.

See the title of the disc on the dashboard's tray image when there's a disc in the DVD and HD DVD tray, instead of just "Play game" or "Play HD DVD".

Assign a spare controller button to an open/close tray function so that when a disc's in either the DVD or HD DVD tray you can select the relevant icon and eject it with said button. Not essential, but a nice to have.

That's all I can think of for now, so other than that, keep up the good work!

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OoSuper MarioO — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 05:51:42 GMT

SUPPORT 16:10 MONITORS!!!

Come on Microsoft one way or another you guys gonna support this else im comitting suicide off the empire state building.Seriously this is ridicolous those of us with 16:10 well many of us who own these monitors are hesistant to purchase 360s due to the lack of support for 16:10.Think of market loss you losing without this support, every penny adds up remember that.MA ma Ma Mario...............

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