XBOX ONE UPDATE-More social features, new ways to watch TV, and USB and DLNA Support Coming Soon

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

SOURCE- Major Nelson

Some good additions there. Using the bone will be pleasant one day! Hoorah!

so still no way to block watchers

still no auto sign in without Kinect

shame

at least we are up to where the last gen was now for playing media.

nice find kent

Everton wrote:so still no way to block watchers

still no auto sign in without Kinect

shame

at least we are up to where the last gen was now for playing media.

nice find kent

Auto sign in exists already mate! I use it and have no kinect

how?

mine still asks me to sign in

Everton wrote:how?

mine still asks me to sign in

Settings < Preferences < Under the System and Apps thing "Instant Sign In" Pick your Tag

Just a few upgrades - do wonder why some of these if not all were available from the beginning  

Markav wrote:

Everton wrote:how?

mine still asks me to sign in

Settings < Preferences < Under the System and Apps thing "Instant Sign In" Pick your Tag

cheers matey

has this always been there cos if so I am puzzled as to why I have never seen it lol

I believe it was rolled out a few updates back.

Yes ! ipod can be used.

Markav wrote:I believe it was rolled out a few updates back.

thanks matey

yep its now doing it fine

actually it seems that you can drill down and set up several more options for things which make your bone more tailored to your needs which is good

After the debacle with my Forza 5 not starting I switched of the instant on to stop autodownloads which seem to cause more grief than anything else. Just spotted can still have instant on but without the auto downloading so that's excellent. The bone os is deffo on the up which is good.

rep for markav