finally a good looking Dashboard, Love It :D

I've been on it for a couple of hours; now.  I would've made the thread but my gf won't get off of the PC.  I like it, I guess.  I preferred the cascading look of the old, and now, half the screen for some of the premium themes are empty--but the old cheap themes work well again.

The ESPN and Netflix options are a big plus.  Loving the new sound effects, etc, too.  

Anything other than a new skin I should be excited about as one of her majesties loyal servants.

Going to get New Vegas in a bit... Will see it when I pop that in

That's what she said!

I'm at work right now. Will update when I get home. I really like the new aesthetic from what I've seen in vids. Can you see full wallpapers now or is half of it still cut off because of the horizon? I can't seem to remember from the vids I watched.

I updated Netflix and toyed around with that for a bit.  I wasn't patient enough to stand by for a Zune update since I barely use the Zune section.  The update seems to be geared towards making the system appear family friendly.  I bet MS wishes they could name the console something other than the harcore sounding "Xbox", too. 

Has anyone tested the new voice codec?  Does it sound a lot clearer?

--And, on a side note:  I jumped up this morning and started viewing my Achievements.  I realized that I had about two levels left in 'Splosion Man so I polished that game off.  I didn't get the Achievement for finishing the single player campaign!  Update issue or game issue?  To the Gamerscore thread, Batman!

The look of it is ok but there isn't much to talk about (white squares are kinda bland if you ask me, but they do make everything look a bit sleeker and simpler/clearer in a way ¬_¬), but I particularly like the smoothness of the scroling from one menu item to the next.

Seems likie it does, especially the streaming Inside Xbox videos that I watched.

while I agree it is an awesome lookding dashboard, the content on continental Europe is SOOOOOO limited.

• No Sky
• No Netflix
• No Last.FM
• No ESPN

makes me a sad panda.

But at least videochat via Kinect and better chatquality are here. Zune looks indeed much better and actually gets some "new" movies these days. Universal, Paramount, Warner Brothers, MGM and Constantin are the big ones supporting it in Germany. Still no Fox, Disney and Sony (obviously). I don't get why though. The studios will generate more revenue and MS will expand the Zune marketplace. WIN / WIN situation for me.

Downloaded it this morning. Haven't had a chance to really mess around with it yet though. I'll do that when I get home from work.