So early this morning my XBOX 360 downloaded and installed the NXE update which overhauls the visual interface for the XBOX as well as adds Netflix streaming to the device (rather than having to use third party software).
The XBOX interface is, for the most part, a vast improvement. The original XBOX interface was extremely ugly and nonintuitive. The new one is pretty and a lot easier to figure out what to do next.
The Netflix streaming is a mixed bag. One the one hand, it works a lot better than the third party solution I was using did. Specifically, fast forward and reverse never really worked when viewing Netflix streams. The official Netflix app does suppor that.
On the other hand, the third party app sorted all of the things in my Instant Queue in nice alphabetical system of folders and subfolders. So if I wanted to the second Disc of the Voltron series, I’d scroll down to the “V” folder, then wait a second for it to refresh and select the Voltron disc, and then finally it would list all the episodes and I’d select whatever episode I wanted to watch.
The official Netflix app uses a lameass coverflow-like setup which is bad enough. But it also sorts the queue by strict order rather than alphabetical. So if I want to watch Voltron I have to scroll through all of the DVD covers that are in completely arbitrary order until I get to the correct one. I’d at least like the option to sort alphabetically rather than by queue order.