New Xbox Experience

[Fat Jez]

Anyone else installed it yet? Just finding my way around, but it seems pretty slick so far.

[Archaon]

Takes some getting used to but I do quite like it. That said the way you can go in 4 directions on the menu is such a blatant copy of the Windows Media Center interface that it makes me wonder why they didn't do it to begin with.

The play from hard drive feature should be great, the racket the DVD drive makes drives me nuts when I'm playing games. Kinda need a bigger hard drive though...

[Fat Jez]

Mine is an elite, so I have the 120GB hard drive. It is so much quieter playing games from it though, makes a huge difference. I think the neighbours will thank me too ;)

[Chenks]

Takes some getting used to but I do quite like it. That said the way you can go in 4 directions on the menu is such a blatant copy of the Windows Media Center interface that it makes me wonder why they didn't do it to begin with..

just like the PS3 and PSP already does then ?

[Archaon]

Well you could always move in 4 directions with the old blade system, it's just the way it's organised seems rather close to the MCE interface.

[BloomerzUK]

Not had a chance to play with it yet, as my Xbox RROD'd yesterday, unfortunatly.

Should have a new one by the weekend. w00tcake.

[Zozart]

It's really nice. And the copying to hard drive rocks. :D

[Azel]

About the hard drive. If i was to buy the 120gig how would i transfer stuff (saved games etc, xbox live games) to the new drive. Sorry to high jack the thread a bit.

Im typing this from work and trying to google it brings the wrath of our over protective firewall in to play

[Fat Jez]

I think it comes with a cable which transfers the files (one shot only) or you may have to send away to MS (I think it may be the latter). It is definitely possible to transfer the files across (there is a thread on the AV Forums about it called AV Forums bike where they are sending one of those cables around all the members who are upgrading the hard drives, rather than obtaining a new one)

[Azel]

ah...ok...thanks alot :)

[Euphoria]

I'm liking the new look a lot, although there does seem a fair bit of useless menus that take you round in circles! Still prefer the PS3 dash myself.

[brumster]

Thumbs up from me too. Maybe a bit over-glitzy and less functional than the old one; "to hell with usability, let's make it look pretty like a PS3". But on the whole I can live with it ;)

[eXistenZ]

So far it's crashed my 360 3 times while moving around the Friends menu :( Other than that it's pretty nice - much faster than the old one.

[Fireblade]

About the hard drive. If i was to buy the 120gig how would i transfer stuff (saved games etc, xbox live games) to the new drive.

You've already been advised what you need, but here's the official (http://www.xbox.com/en-GB/support/systemuse/xbox360/console/datamigration.htm) speil.
But you can get one here (http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/offer-listing/B000ENN85W/) (it costs £19.00 delivered);)

[brumster]

I wish to revoke my earlier comment. I am now in ownership of a bricked 360. RROD galore.... great :(

[jacobzcoool]

lol, I just read an article on the Reg about it RRoDing 360s, I was wondering if anyone here had got one from it.

[liadbacklad]

I wish to revoke my earlier comment. I am now in ownership of a bricked 360. RROD galore.... great :(

mega LOL, and only in a few houre eh? :P

[brumster]

It's actually odd - if I leave it a while, it'll start up again, but I only need to hang around in the dashboard for a few minutes and the box locks up again - totally freezes. Restart, and it's RROD.

[DarkEntity]

send it off to MS for a free repair if its RRODing.

[brumster]

send it off to MS for a free repair if its RRODing.

I know mate - I'm on my third already; I know the process well ;)

[ArTizan]

Jeez, I thought they had sorted most of those problems out now. 3 Xboxes lol.

[brumster]

UPS coming on Monday... I've said time and time again, customer service is excellent and the whole process is very painless, but a 4th time is taking the p*** now :( particularly over just a bleeding software update... it's a good job for Microsoft that I hate Sony so much. Maybe I should look into one of those wishy-washy kiddies things, a Nintendo? ;)

[DarkEntity]

Im on my urm...5th or 6th box....ive lost count, Game replaced the first 3 or 4.....and ive had my Premium and Elite RROD in the last 2 months....

god bless reliability :)

[BloomerzUK]

Mines crapped out.. Cousin is repairing another Xbox for me..

Mine had a Secondry error of 0031.. which is currently an unknown error code.

PITA. Just before all the good games came out aswel..

[Euphoria]

That's a bit of bad luck :( Touch wood I've not had that problem yet.

[Sub]

thats a little disheartening.. i hope this doesn't happen to me either -_- ...
it's 'alright' takes a little getting used to and themes are now borked a bit tbh.
The avatars are a nice take on things but not groundbreaking or anything...

I don't like that they have now enforced you to have a hard drive to play online / update to the new dashboard, my buddy just got Gears 2 and now can't play online as he can't afford the absolutely flipping ridiculously priced (how are they still getting away with this) hard drives...

[Essay @ Kustom]

Take it everyone knows that they can link to their NXE avatars?


This is my avatar. If you don't know what I look like, let me tell you, it's uncanny, to be honest. Except the tshirt. But they didn't have Biffy Clyro tshirts on xbox for some reason :(
http://avatar.xboxlive.com/avatar/kittwalker/avatar-body.png

http://avatar.xboxlive.com/avatar/NAME/avatar-body.png

Just change NAME to your gamertag, and away you go.

Same for the smaller icon pics:

http://avatar.xboxlive.com/avatar/NAME/avatarpic-l.png
http://avatar.xboxlive.com/avatar/NAME/avatarpic-s.png

[Glod]

Heh, just for a laugh here's my avatar.

http://avatar.xboxlive.com/avatar/Glodzilla/avatar-body.png

Doesn't look much like me.. I have less hair and more around the middle :)

As for the NXE itself, I installed it, made an avatar and haven't played anything on my xbox since.

I like the sound of the install to hard drive feature but since you have to put the disk in anyway I'm not sure I'll bother. In fact writing this has just put me in the mood to go play some Rock Band!

[brumster]

Not far off, so I'm told :)

http://avatar.xboxlive.com/avatar/brumster1974/avatar-body.png

[Fat Jez]

Not far off, so I'm told :)



Dunno about that, I thought the avatar was better looking ;)


Here's me, I definitely need to lose some weight :(
http://avatar.xboxlive.com/avatar/Phantom%20Scot/avatar-body.png

[Euphoria]

Thought I'd add my avatar. It doesn't resemble me in any way, but still amusing!

http://avatar.xboxlive.com/avatar/GenericWill/avatar-body.pnghttp://avatar.xboxlive.com/avatar/GenericWill/avatar-body.pnghttp://avatar.xboxlive.com/avatar/GenericWill/avatar-body.pnghttp://avatar.xboxlive.com/avatar/GenericWill/avatar-body.pnghttp://avatar.xboxlive.com/avatar/GenericWill/avatar-body.pnghttp://avatar.xboxlive.com/avatar/GenericWill/avatar-body.png

[Sub]

hehe who's a pretty goth :P

mine here, according to a few it's fairly accurate except the gloves tbh they only come in blue

http://avatar.xboxlive.com/avatar/Subodai/avatar-body.png

[Euphoria]

And the ears?

[DarkEntity]

This is mine...not really a great likeness but hey

http://avatar.xboxlive.com/avatar/DarkEther/avatar-body.png