Netflix Streaming on the 360 Improves

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As those with an Xbox 360 know, yesterday was their bug summer update. Among other things, this added an improved Netflix streaming client to the service, which you’ll download the first time you start up Netflix after the update. Last night I tested out the new client, and it is a huge improvement over what was there before.

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Impressions: Xbox 360 NXE Update

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For most of us gamers out there, updates to the 360 come to us as we awake from our afternoon nap, throw off the loose Cheetos that hang on to our sweatpants, and boot up the console, only to see what looks like an error message. We rub our eyes sleepily to get the goop out and hope to goodness that Xbox Live isn’t down.

Coming soon though is an NXE update that I think everyone will benefit from in some way. I was lucky enough to send in my survey and be selected for the second wave of NXE preview program invites. Over the past week or so I have been able to put the NXE update through its paces (minus the Netflix updates which I don’t have) and will give my impressions so far on the update coming August 11th.

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