Pic of the new Xbox Live Dashboard, pretty cool. (1 Viewer)

[Travis Olson]

Story here. According to the news bit it's coming on August 25th. That kinda surprised me as I was under the impression it wouldn't be out till around the holidays. Or maybe it won't be and MS is just getting our hopes up for nothing again. At any rate, it looks pretty cool and the voice chat out of game will be great.

 

[Jason Merrick]

That looks cool... they really needed to make the friends list more accessible.

Thanks for the link and pic!

 

[Dean Cooper]

They should make the friends list bigger, 300 would be much better.

 

[Carlos Mendoza]

They should make the friends list bigger, 300 would be much better.

And let you group friends by game. So you would have a folder with MM3, and the list of your friends that you play that with, etc.

Is it confirmed that this revision will let you get to the Dashboard with a disc in the drive?

 

[Mike Pattee]

Grouping is the main thing the friends list is lacking. After awhile I coudln't remember if I had added someone because they were HTF or from one of the football leagues I joined or just random people that I had fun playing games with.

 

[Paul_Fisher]

Definitely agree on the grouping thing, I never thought of that until you guys said it. That would be perfect for friends from HTF and such.

 

[Michael St. Clair]

They should track the last time you played each friend....make it easier to purge the dropouts.

 

[Chris Flynn]

Update

New Dashboard - Delayed!

http://www.xbox.com/LIVE/About/Features-LiveNow.htm

"mid-September" now...

 

[David Glenn]

Did you guys read about the "Live Aware" games. If your playing offline it still recognizes that you have a live account and will allow you to quickly check to see if your friends are online and receive invites, all while playing offline.

http://www.xbox.com/LIVE/About/Features-LiveAware.htm

 

[LaMarcus]

I just hope that dash board will be 480p. I hate having to switch inputs.

 

[Dave F]

LaMarcus- The latest OXM mentions a new HD adapter called the Neoya X2VGA with a feature called "480i Easyview". Basically it will take the 480i signal from the dashboard and make it compatible with your 480p signal. It will look somewaht awful, but its readable & you won't have to switch cables.

It's $69, but if the new dashboard isn't 480p, it might be worth it.

-Dave

 

[Mark Dubbelboer]

I got the same message as dean
funny it listed the date as 8/14/2003 and 14/8/2003

 

[Brett Hancock]

Did you guys read about the "Live Aware" games. If your playing offline it still recognizes that you have a live account and will allow you to quickly check to see if your friends are online and receive invites, all while playing offline.

This is the main problem that I had with live. THis is great news hopefully all games will implement it.

 

[JayV]

8/14/2003 and 14/8/2003

Mark, the first date and times were listed as EST. The second was GMT, so it looks like someone put the date in a format that people zeroing in on GMT would use.

-j

 

[BrianB]

funny it listed the date as 8/14/2003 and 14/8/2003

I don't see what's funny about it? XBL is an international service.

 

[Graeme Clark]

XBOX Live Web / My Live now coming on the 25th!

http://www.gamespot.com/xbox/sports/...s_6073132.html

Microsoft has announced that Live Web will be available on August 25. The Web-based feature will let users monitor different facets of Xbox Live through a Web page. Users will be able to view their friends list to see which friends are playing online, and they will also be able to view stats and scoreboards. Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon will be one of the first games to support the feature, allowing users to view their ranking through the Web. Microsoft said it plans to also hold a number of special events through Live Web.

http://www.xbox.com/LIVE/ has an update about it also.

Personally, I'm more excited about this than the dashboard updates.

Also VERY glad to read about the Live Aware games. I've been saying for awhile that MS should try and make these features standard on all games. It's bad enough that most of the Live enabled games don't allow you to be logged on while playing the single player game.

 

[Carlos Mendoza]

dangit, now I just HAVE to go wireless! Right now I'm running a cable across my living room, but only when I want to play LIVE. To take advantage of Live Aware, I would have to be connected all the time.

Somebody please recommend the cheapest way for me to go wireless for my Xbox!!