Richard Leadbetter writes:
"Microsoft's brand new "Metro"-inspired dashboard highlights how the platform holder now sees the Xbox 360 as a multimedia playback device, just as comfortable at hosting video content as it is at running games. There's just one problem: the video player in the new interface doesn't work properly any more."
Bit-Tech: Perhaps the biggest surprise was that the tide of console gamers is a cultural phenomenon which does not appear to cross every border. According to NPD's research, while the UK has the highest incidence of console usage out of all the markets analysed Germany boasts the biggest number of PC gamers.
France, meanwhile, is clinging on to dedicated hand-held consoles like the Nintendo 3DS and Sony PlayStation Portable at a time when NPD's analysis shows that gamers in most other nations have ditched theirs in favour of getting their portable gaming fixes on smartphones and tablets.
"when NPD's analysis shows that gamers in most other nations have ditched theirs in favour of getting their portable gaming fixes on smartphones and tablets."
you mean like japan, europe or the US where the 3ds is breaking records?
People are ditching the 3DS so fast in the US, 3ds sales have doubled over ds first year sales and the year isnt even over.
No source, no truth
who approved this garbage?
but 250 million global online PC Gamers say other wise.
Everyone with a Gaming PC can play Wii Games so does that mean the world is a Wii Nation?
I think people just enjoy Games and it really doesn't matter the platform.
Console Nation, PC Universe, iPhone Realm, doesn't matter just enjoy your Games.
Considering most PC Gamers will own 1 or more consoles , declaring the UK as a "console nation" is complete and utter bollox.
owning a console and playing the occasional game once in a blue moon doesnt make you a console gamer. Just like owning a pc and maybe playing some random flash game doesnt make you a pc gamer. Alot of pc gamers bought ps3s, its a blu-ray player and media hub that plays games.
I'm from the UK and game on nearly every platform I can think of.
But yes in general I'm more thumbs than fingers when It comes to my games.
Remember in December of last year when Paul Christoforo became the pariah of the internet? Ocean Marketing was at the center of a scandal that took the internet by storm after Christoforo exchanged rude, angry emails with a customer of Avenge Controllers, for whom Christoforo was providing customer service. I recently had the chance to speak with Paul about the whole ordeal and what his life has been like since.
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That does look sick and the sound is even more awesome. Too bad the darn Xbox 360 is so expensive still.
When the Wii U drops the xbox prices will take a serious nose dive. Hopefully they still have that particular one floating around retail.
I never actually noticed this, but there were some complaints about this regarding Netflix app during beta as well. I ran into them in the private beta forums.
Hopefully MS will fix this, but it puzzles me. Does the new dash use a different decoder for video than the old dash? Why?
I can confirm this happens in Netflix, movies and series now look very washed out. At first I tried messing with the TV settings but then I realized that my TV was fine.
Something tells me MS will avoid this issue like the plague.
i don't like the new dash at all, its so clunky, having to scroll through all those pages of adds just to figure out where videos demos etc is is just a pain in the ass.
I was the one "who reported (this) during the beta phase of the dashboard roll-out." The post garnered a lot of attention from other preview program members and it was voted "important" hundreds of times. Microsoft suggeted a workaround that actually made the issue worse. The post, as well as others dealing with this topic, was eventually deleted by the forum administrators. It appears that Microsoft is not going to address this issue anytime soon.
The image from the article is a poor representation of the problem. It is actually much worse than depicted in the photographs.
The new dash is sooooo much slower than the last one and Netflix is completely washed out, I have to turn my HDMI black level to 'Low' to make things look normal.