Updated features in early access program

Cosmicthoughts · Aug 12, 2014

We’ve been bringing tons of new features to Xbox One fans worldwide throughout the year. Thanks to the recently-launched

Xbox Feedback, our fans have played a huge role in shaping these updates. In fact, we’ve received thousands of posts and more than 400,000 votes to date.

Starting in the early access program later this month, new social features making it easier for gamers to connect with their friends and new ways to access their TV and entertainment throughout their homes will be coming to Xbox One. The updates include:

New “Friends” section – the new Friends section has been available for a few early access Preview members and we’re expanding it to everyone enrolled in the Preview program. The new Friends section enables users to see at a glance what’s
going on with their friends. They can stay up-to-date with their current activities, the most popular games their friends are playing, and a Gamerscore leaderboard to see who has improved their Gamerscore over the last 30 days.

Snap Center – Some of gamers’ favorite features in the Xbox 360 guide, are coming to Xbox One in a way that’s now truly be side-by-side with games. Messages, friends, parties, and achievements will all be available in the new Snap Center,
providing a seamless way to switch back and forth without having to leave a game.

Threaded Messages – keeping gamers in their games while they multitask has been a huge focus. The new Messages app features threaded messages with the full conversation history – including embedded links to Game DVR clips – that can be
viewed without interrupting gameplay.

Media Player – a new app will be available soon that enables users to play media files from either an attached USB device or from a network connected home media server that supports DLNA protocols. The preview version of the Media Player
app will initially only support USB devices, with DLNA support coming soon. Xbox One will support more formats than Xbox 360, including support for dozens of new file formats like mpeg 2 TS, animated gifs and mkv which will be added by the end of the year.
See below for additional file formats.

Xbox One Digital TV Tuner –announced last week, this new accessory will enter a limited preview program in Europe (UK, France, Germany, Italy, and Spain),
in advance of its retail launch beginning in October.

Stream TV to SmartGlass – launching first in markets receiving the Xbox Digital TV Tuner, Xbox One owners will be able to stream their TV across their home network to their smartphones and tablets using the Xbox SmartGlass app. They can
also pause, play and rewind as well as change channels, without interrupting gameplay on the Xbox One. This will work for SmartGlass apps on Windows, iOS, and Android.

Boot to TV – Now Xbox One owners will be able to set their console to boot directly to television when coming out of connected standby.

Live TV mini guide – for markets where OneGuide is available, a new mini guide on the bottom of the screen will display details about the TV content that is currently playing. Users can quickly change channels and see what’s on other channels,
while still watching TV.

Country Expansion – we’re doing a lot of work on the backend to prepare for Xbox One to launch in 29 new markets

in the coming weeks.

As with previous updates, these may be rolling out in general availability to Xbox One owners at different stages in the coming months. We continue to be amazed by our fans’ enthusiasm for our Xbox One system updates and their fantastic input. We’re working
hard to make Xbox One more social and the best place for all your games and entertainment, and we can’t wait to roll out these new features, and more, in the coming months.

Later today, my gamescom co-host Acey Bongos, and one of the lead engineers on Xbox, Ashley Speicher, are demoing the new features. Stay tuned and we’ll post that demo a little later.

Xbox One compatible file types

3gp audio

3gp video

3gp2

aac

adts

animated gif

asf

avi divx

avi dv

avi uncompressed

avi xvid

bmp

jpg

gif

h264 avchd

mjpeg

mkv

mov

mp3

mpeg 1 ps

mpeg 2

mpeg 2 hd

mpeg 2 ts

mpeg 4 h264 aac

mpeg 4 sp

png

tiff

wav

wma

wma lossless

wma pro

wma voice

wmv

wmv hd

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danyus83 · Aug 12, 2014

Preview Forums not found

i'm receveing the error on accessing early access forum.

Xbox One Preview Early Access Forum Group Not Found

I am regularly registered in preview program and i have already updated my xbox one to latest version. Please add me to forum.

Dbanfi · Aug 12, 2014

Can't access the Xbox Early Access forum

Hi All,

I've just been invited to the Preview program and updated the console with the Preview Dashboard yesterday.

However when I try to access the Xbox Early Access forum it gives me the message 'Group not found'

Any help appreciated.

Cheers,

bOing

Alchemist Don · Aug 12, 2014

Some nice updates i may buy rebuy if these updates keep coming...

Should of been included at launch, no excuses.

R1CH5TER · Aug 12, 2014

Great news! Thanks for posting

ShaunPerry · Aug 12, 2014

I quite like the 30 day gamerscore leaderboard and the new friends section. Apart from the fact that i'm 6th on mine........................................

APEXASSASSlN · Aug 13, 2014

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 31 Days my friends lol.

Cosmicthoughts · Aug 14, 2014

Apex - read the announcement again, it clearly says 30. Maybe the announcement is wrong?

ShaunPerry · Aug 14, 2014

It says 30 day leaderboard on the console. Meh. With the amount of games coming out over the next few months, I may have a chance!!!!!!

Spindelhalla · Aug 14, 2014

Hi guys,

How does one go about getting on the early access thing? Was it like the 360 one where I needed to sign up online and pray to Phil Spencer that I get selected?

Thanks

ShaunPerry · Aug 15, 2014

Anyone in the program can invite you mate. MS want as large an audience as possible to wean out bugs before updates roll out to everyone.

APEXASSASSlN · Aug 16, 2014

Im in the program if anyone wants invites?

Lout Of Order · Aug 16, 2014

Feel free to chuck one my way, a friend did already invite me but haven't heard anything so another can't hurt right?

ShaunPerry · Aug 16, 2014

Have they added the preview app to the dash?

Sure I read somewhere that they have. Have a look in the apps section.

bamaboys11 · Aug 17, 2014

yea i have two xbox ones. well on one of the xbox I have the early preview update it updated yesterday. now i have a dchp error and cant play games. that is when its wired in. if i go wireless it works ok. my other xbox works fine plugged in to same spot..
it has to be the update i resetted back xbox through the setup and its still not working any suggestions how to get rid of update?

Updated features in early access program

Updated features in early access program

Updated features in early access program

Updated features in early access program

Updated features in early access program

Updated features in early access program

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