{"id":14604,"date":"2011-10-10T16:20:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-10T14:20:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"next-xbox-dashboard-update-due-out-in-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/14604-next-xbox-dashboard-update-due-out-in-november","title":{"rendered":"Next Xbox dashboard update due out in November"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft&rsquo;s next big semi-annual Xbox dashboard update is apparently due to go live on 25 November (or &ldquo;Black Friday&rdquo;, in Americanish), according to <a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/video\/xbox-live-silverlight\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"GigaOM\">a report over on GigaOM<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The update includes channel apps for a massive list of participating partners and providers, including HBO, LOVEFiLM, and the BBC; but nothing that applies in South Africa because we&rsquo;re not important enough. <\/p>\n<p>And because our local TV channels kind of suck. <\/p>\n<p>A YouTube app is also featured.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/xbox_2011_update_02_223839015.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"331\" height=\"186\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There are also some new Kinect voice recognition and gesture controls added in, which will really only matter to people who&rsquo;d prefer to say, &ldquo;Xbox, play disc&rdquo; than press a button on the controller.<\/p>\n<p>GigaOM notes that the update is built on a modified version of Microsoft&rsquo;s Silverlight framework, dubbed Lakeview.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The goal is to quickly mature the platform, with the potential of enabling other third-party developers to eventually use the Lakeview framework to build their own apps for the Xbox 360 console,&rdquo; writes Ryan Lawler.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/xbox_2011_update_689223202.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/18736-Xbox-dashboard-update-TV-YouTube-Kinect-SA-still-fails\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Next Xbox dahsboard update due out in November\"><strong>Xbox dashboard update: TV, YouTube, Kinect &#8211; SA still fails<\/strong><\/a> &lt;&lt; Comments and views<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adds a bunch of TV channels available pretty much everywhere except here<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}