14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft's Spring update, announced just a little while ago, promises to make everything a lot easier for Xbox 360 users, especially when downloading content via Xbox Live and respectively Xbox Live Marketplace. Thus, the full list of options and enhanced features providing users with easy exploring and using the Internet service for the Xbox 360, has been made available on MyArcadePlanet.com. Here are some highlighted features for you:
- A new Xbox LIVE Marketplace blade allows members to instantly access the content they seek-whether it is game content or TV shows and movies (available in the United States)-from one place on Xbox LIVE. - Added H.264 video support: Up to 10 Mbps peak, Baseline, Main and High profiles with 2 channel AAC LC. - Expanded "Tell a Friend" capabilities make it easier than ever to boast about Achievements and high scores. - Added MPEG-4 Part 2 video support: Up to 5 Mbps peak, Simple Profile with 2 channel AAC LC. - New progressive download controls provide easy access to optimal viewing options by letting people fast-forward, rewind, pause and resume as videos are downloaded. - Extension of the background download functionality allows owners to set their Xbox 360 console to turn off automatically after downloads are complete (pretty useful for those hard working gamers out there). - Show folder hierarchy for video content played from all devices. - Bookmarks are stored for each video that the user plays remembering the users' last location in the file as well as the aspect ratio that the user chose for that file. - A new option in Auto Downloads provides faster access to the entire collection of free, trial-version Xbox LIVE Arcade games. - The console will block the user who attempts to download content onto a storage device that will never have the capacity to store the item without deducting any points associated with the content item.
Let's hope for all the Xbox gamers' sake out there that security has been reinforced with all these enhanced features and that no more Xbox 360 console will die when surfing Xbox LIVE.