Review the new Xbox 360 Dashboard!

[Zappykins]

Positive - like most of the new features, Beacons, Cloud Saves are both excellent.

Voice Search through Bing is an great idea. I like that it searches cross platform, through Zune, Netflix, Hulu+. Best part of the update for me.

Netflix now has digital 5.1 sound, and you can skip to the next or previous episode. It seems like the picture has improved too. And much improved voice navigation.

And I like the more integrated voice search with Kinect.

Cons - Bing needs some refining - hard to see where it's going to play until you have chosen an episode and when you drill into a show, it shows you the last episodes first. And you can't tell if it's listening to you.

Netflix problems - Loss of Party(!), an annoying unhelpful auto start AND no more restart on Netflix. Also the fast forward and rewind were much better before. Plus we lose the title screen and it's harder to select the episode or season you want to watch.

Daily Motion ap is just a mess - it will play something when you are browsing, then when you find what you want to watch it puts a menu on top. Really disappointing.

Syfy - just like when the changed the name, it's a disappointment. I wanted to check out some of the shows I've hard about, but there are many clips and not full episodes.

Overall I think it's a good upgrade, but just have been disappointed by the non MS aps.