New Features For Xbox Live

• New organization to reduce clutter.
• Many new categories will be added.
• Games
• Media and Entertainment
• Demos and Game Videos
• Theme and Gamer Pictures
• Each category will also have sub menus such as
• New Releases
• Browsing All Content.
• On the marketplace screen users will also have the ability to:
• Redeem Codes
• Enter Active Downloads
• Enter Account Management.
• One of the best new features coming involves content downloads
• You will now be able to download in the background.
• Not only that, you will be able to manage six downloads at a time.
• They’ll only download one at a time, but you can queue up six and pause and resume any of them at will.
• So now you can download all those E3 Videos while you’re still trying to conquer Oblivion.
• Themes will also be easier to manage with the ability to apply a theme immediately after downloading.
• The DVD player will remember where you left off in a movie.
• So if your little brother accidentally turns the power off or you remove the movie to play a game, you’ll be able to resume right where you left off.
• Music will now play the entire time after it’s turned on.
• In other words, the music will continue to play if it’s playing when you launch a game, instead of turning off like it used to.
• Finally, Microsoft will give the users boot options.
• You will now be able to set the console to boot into a game or directly to the dashboard.
• This is a good change for those who like to mostly play Xbox Live Arcade.
• No specific release date has been set, but it should be available sometime next week.