Was in beta the whole time on 2 out of the 3 boxes in my house. It sounds funny but I got so used to the new dash in such a short amount of time that whenever I used the old one, I noticed the difference. As for the main update now, I'm still liking the look and most of all speed of everything. I'm not one that's going to utilize all of the features but I have noticed some trade offs with Netflix already although minor. The big thing for me is the loss of ability to change from 4:3 aspect to stretch or zoom. A few of the shows I play for my daughters are in 4:3 and I don't like keeping the black bars on my plasma. The work around is using the tv's remote to change but then when you back out to the menu, everything is still stretched or zoomed....it blows. Also I don't see a recently watched section anymore. That's more minor but something I was used to. The work around there is to just add to instant que which is only the press of a button away. I haven't tried the Kinect controls yet but I'm optimistic after hearing some of the comments here.
I don't mind the ads, we all have to deal with them in some capacity these days. As others have said, they mostly seem relative to what you are looking at, at the very least no worse than this beard man fuck over to the right here.
Stoked for Youtube more than anything though, I will use this a bunch.
I LOVE paying for Xbox Live! I also love that my love for it pisses off so many people.
