360 Spring Update Now Available

A little late, but just as impressive as promised, the Spring Update to Xbox Live is now available for download. The most anticipated feature is the addition of 'background' downloading and download queueing. The update also reorganizes where several oddly placed options were located, and generally smooths the UI experience.

Re:Better support for Xbox 360 game disc recogniti

[entmike]

Several people at MaxConsole are reporting that this has not prevented them from running their backups with the hacked DVD firmware.

Source: http://www.maxconsole.net/?mode=news&newsid=7645 [maxconsole.net]

Re:About fucking time.

[Saige]

You do not need a Media Center PC. All you need is Windows Media Connect, which is a free download. Once you've done that, it's easy to get to music and pictures straight from the 360 dashboard.

The 360 also shipped with support for USB keyboards. I used one when dealing with FFXI Beta installation, and for miscellaneous other things.

As far as the drive goes... remember, it's a very high-speed DVD drive. From my understanding, just about every drive that runs at that speed is that loud. You may not notice it as much with a PC for various reasons, but they're just as loud.

Re:Weird.

[Saige]

Oh, you can download while you play games. The only time it stops the downloading is when you're playing online - so you'll be downloading the entire time you play Oblivion, but hop over to COD2 for some online action and the downloads will pause to make sure it doesn't negatively impact your play experience.

And background downloading wasn't there at first because some tradeoffs had to be made to get the console out on time.