- Game hubs – New in preview this month, game hubs are the go-to centers for all sorts of interesting content around your favorite games. Every Xbox One game will have a game hub where you can see which of your friends are playing the game, compete with your friends in game leaderboards, dive into the coolest game clips and game broadcasts, and follow the game’s VIPs and top players. To get to the game hub for your favorite game, find a game in your pins, recently played list, or My games and apps, then press the Menu button and select View game hub. You can also search for any game in the Xbox Store and click on the game hub tile from the game’s store page.
   
   - Custom backgrounds and tile transparency – We listened to your feedback and added additional tile transparency to the Home tiles to make your background images more visible. As a reminder, to set a custom background, go to Settings > My Xbox > My background. Note: some items can’t be made transparent due to usage rights/restrictions for certain images.

   - TV updates – We’re releasing a lot of updates to the live TV experience and features are being released to additional countries in preview this month:

   - OneGuide for the Netherlands – Support for OneGuide will continue in preview for the Netherlands and the missing channels for the Netherlands OneGuide listings will become available over the next few weeks.

   - TV trending in OneGuide – As you scan the detailed OneGuide TV listings, you can see which shows are trending by a “Trending on Xbox” note and associated icon. Xbox – live TV trending is based on the number of Xbox One owners currently watching that show in each country, pulled from anonymous data collected at a national level. Currently, Xbox TV trending is available to all members in the U.S., UK and Canada.

   - Live TV trending (new countries) – France, Germany, Brazil and Mexico will begin seeing live TV trending data in Xbox OneGuide.

   - Improved control of TVs, set-top boxes and audio/video receivers – Xbox One will work even better with more devices. This month’s preview release contains updates to the IR blasting database for new models and addresses issues reported by our fan community.

   - “Trick play” with Xbox One Digital TV Tuner – Preview members with the Xbox One Digital TV Tuner in supported countries (UK, France, Germany, Italy and Spain) will now be able to see video frames when fast-forwarding or rewinding paused TV on your Xbox One consoles.

   - Live TV streaming on Windows Phone and Android – We are continuing the preview of live TV streaming on Windows Phone and Android devices for Xbox One Digital TV Tuner owners in the UK, France, Germany, Italy and Spain.

Tv, tv, tv ,tv...

Do you guys even remember what Phil Spencer said about the TV aspect of Xbox? The big press conferences would be exclusively for games, and other side channels would be used for te social and TV aspects of Xbox.

I think it's all neat and all, I just wish they added a transparency slider.

Quote from: Sly Instinct on January 16, 2015, 12:56:39 PM

Quote from: Novice on January 16, 2015, 11:30:08 AM

I think it's all neat and all, I just wish they added a transparency slider.

Or just add a blank page on the dashboard to scroll to to see your background.

That'd actually be pretty cool, kinda like a screensaver/slideshow thing going on.

Quote from: Novice on January 16, 2015, 01:12:57 PM

Quote from: Sly Instinct on January 16, 2015, 12:56:39 PM

Quote from: Novice on January 16, 2015, 11:30:08 AM

I think it's all neat and all, I just wish they added a transparency slider.

Or just add a blank page on the dashboard to scroll to to see your background.

That'd actually be pretty cool, kinda like a screensaver/slideshow thing going on.

Yeah, just press an unused button or button combo on the dashboard and it clears it except for the back ground, like a screen saver.

Quote from: Sly Instinct on January 16, 2015, 01:16:21 PM

Quote from: Novice on January 16, 2015, 01:12:57 PM

Quote from: Sly Instinct on January 16, 2015, 12:56:39 PM

Quote from: Novice on January 16, 2015, 11:30:08 AM

I think it's all neat and all, I just wish they added a transparency slider.

Or just add a blank page on the dashboard to scroll to to see your background.

That'd actually be pretty cool, kinda like a screensaver/slideshow thing going on.

Yeah, just press an unused button or button combo on the dashboard and it clears it except for the back ground, like a screen saver.

I'm going to suggest this in the preview forums if you're okay with that.

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How do you get into the preview program anyway?

Quote from: BritishLemön on January 17, 2015, 08:44:18 AM

How do you get into the preview program anyway?

Suck MS dick?

Game hubs is a good idea. One thing I want in the future, this is next gen after all: The ability to stream my console onto another TV within the house. There are times when I wish I could do this instead of moving it to another TV.