I set my favorites to SF Giants, MLB, SF 49ers, NFL, and NBA. It works great to me. I can watch a series of videos all pertaining to my favorite teams from my couch. It's finally playing videos quickly and without buffering. The only remainly issue to me is the long startup at the start.
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I set my favorites to SF Giants, MLB, SF 49ers, NFL, and NBA. It works great to me. I can watch a series of videos all pertaining to my favorite teams from my couch. It's finally playing videos quickly and without buffering. The only remainly issue to me is the long startup at the start.
doubt it, the UFC app was being beta tested last year. thats why it was free.
brokenbeans
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I'm looking forward to the NBA tv app, means I don't have to sit at my pc to watch the games.
RedAssedApe
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It is doing that crap again.
MS websites always doing crap like this. Half the time I get errors saying that the page I am trying to load can't be found then I reload the page and its there.
specialguy
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Is it true the beta doesnt end until 12/31?
BruiserBear
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Highly unlikely. I think it will end in about a month.
rangersfan414
Member
It ends the first week of November.
Kill Your Masters
Member
For me they stopped working completely. Worked for a while now it only says that I should download adobe flash.
But yeah they were chugging a lot before.
AndyMoogle
Member
Ever since the last update I keep getting kicked out from Live every 30 mins or so. The update I got today didn't help either.
Silly.Mikey
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i still cant log into the youtube app. Ive tried everything.
Alfred Saxon
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This update has fixed the code 3/signing out on XBLIG's.
BruiserBear
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I must be incredibly lucky, because I've had basically no problems with the beta and I've been in it since the first day. I've had two hard lockups since the first day, and that's it.
Fudgepuppy
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The one thing I reeeeally want Microsoft to fix, is allowing you to choose how many patches you want to store.
It's a pretty scary thought that if you take your Xbox to a place where there is no internet, you might not be able to play the game the way you want to because the patch has been overwritten since you've played more than three other games after it.
They've specifically programmed it to delete patches so it's not rocket-science to program an on/off switch to it.
It's a pretty scary thought that if you take your Xbox to a place where there is no internet, you might not be able to play the game the way you want to because the patch has been overwritten since you've played more than three other games after it.
They've specifically programmed it to delete patches so it's not rocket-science to program an on/off switch to it.
xemumanic
Member
What, really?! That's awesome. I never heard that. Since when? Did they make a post about it?
Maybe I can fix my issue with YouTube (can't log in under my name anymore after I accidentally logged off) by clearing the patch and save and re-downloading them.
EDIT: Yeah, it worked! I also see there's a save file called 'content cache' on my drive. I wonder if this is why game box art loads so quickly in my game library since I started using this dash. Been asking for this feature for a while too!
xemumanic
Member
It's most likely a system-level thing, so games/apps don't have to be updated to make use of it.
RedAssedApe
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I don't think you're the only one. I've only seen minor bugs like IE pin getting corrupted.
xemumanic
Member
Sorry, I should have mentioned that, having come to the thread to see if anyone else had posted about it.
AndyMoogle
Member
It's not for all games. Gears of War 3 for example doesn't do that.
RedAssedApe
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Do your duty fellow testers. 
XBBetaTeam0 said:
Diablohead
Member
Do your duty fellow testers.
Will fill it in but the website is down right now.
BruiserBear
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This is only partially true. From what I can gather, smaller patches are still stored in the temporary cache, like they've always been.
However, Microsoft now allows for larger patches, and if those patches exceed the previous tiny limits (2 MB?), they will now store the updates on the hard drive.
Fudgepuppy
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So I only need to delete the cache and redownload all patches?
Do your duty fellow testers.
No survey on that page for me.
Anyone have an issue where the video apps do not have the names below them for voice activation?
Vert boil
Member
You have to sign in to take the survey.
MrTroubleMaker
Member
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I've actually been pretty disappointed with this beta test. The update yesterday wasn't THAT bad but many of them have taken a good 10-15 minutes to start gaming which is all too reminiscent of my PS3.
The differences are pretty negligible to me as I don't use beacons, don't have a Kinect and definitely have not used IE.
The differences are pretty negligible to me as I don't use beacons, don't have a Kinect and definitely have not used IE.
Silly.Mikey
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So you've been incredibly useful to the testing of this beta is what your saying.
Diablohead
Member
7MB I think, first game I noticed with big patches for me was Bulletstorm, only shocking because it was an auto update about 280mb big, stuff like that used to be download free dlc like with burnout paradise.
Have you been using pins? best feature along with the slight layout redesign imo.
BruiserBear
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I've seen patches smaller than 7MB on the hard drive though. I believe I've heard in the past that 2MB was the limit.
xemumanic
Member
Of course he was. Also, I think the entire dash is reinstalled each time instead of some partial update.
toythatkills
Member
Do you not think it was a bit stupid applying for the beta if you didn't want any of the features and didn't want constant updates?
It's a pretty weird criticism of it since the final version won't have any of those 10-15 minute updates, and the single reason you're getting them is that you asked Microsoft for them.
This lay patch is driving me nuts, thought my Xbox was dying.
Had to drop from 1080p to 720p as the dash wasn't picking it up.
Every now and then the screen goes black like the tele is off (think it might be when I get a pop up) happened loads in Borderlands 2.
Such a pain!!!!
Had to drop from 1080p to 720p as the dash wasn't picking it up.
Every now and then the screen goes black like the tele is off (think it might be when I get a pop up) happened loads in Borderlands 2.
Such a pain!!!!
Palette Swap
Member
Hi guys, given the current performance of my Xbox, I'm going to format my HDD. Any tips to make sure I keep all my profiles and saves?
Move them to a USB stick, format the HDD, then move them back again. Make sure you use Move instead of Copy for the saves, as all saves can be moved, but some saves are locked and cannot be copied.
Silly.Mikey
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I dunno but wouldnt it be better to wait till the final dash before formatting?
Put your saves in the cloud and make sure you connect to Xbox live one last time to sync up before formating.
This may not help, but when I had that happen with an app, clearing the cache, deleting the app and any updates for it, then re-downloading the app fixed it.