Xbox Live Gold subscribers will be able to use up to 500MB of cloud storage (per Gamertag) to save their games in. Most games only require a few hundred kilobytes to a few megabytes per save file, so this should be more than enough for most people in their daily gaming. It will also allow you to access your saved gamers on your friends' Xboxes. (By comparison, PlayStation Plus offers PS3 owners a less capacious 150MB of cloud love.)
But the big new features concern TV, movies and entertainment. Though to begin with that aforementioned wave is more of a ripple. UK users actually only get access to Lovefilm and its streaming library (as part of a Lovefilm subscription), and must wait until later this month to get some of the other services scheduled to land on your Xbox. These include Channel 4's 4oD, YouTube, Vevo, Dailymotion, Blinkbox and Muzu. The BBC was scheduled to be on-board for this update, but El Beeb won't join the Xbox party until "early 2012". We asked why, but Microsoft didn't know. Likely, it's a rights issue. It usually is.
Anyway, we had a hands-on play with the new Dashboard last week. Overall we felt the updates were worth the wait (we first talked about them in June, six months ago). Microsoft has given the Xbox a unified design aesthetic to all of its entertainment portals. For example, if you've ever cringed as you went to rent a movie only to be faced with having to load the clunky, slow Zune application, you can put your hands in the air like you just don't care -- that obnoxious experience has taken an axe right to the face. That is to say, it's very much dead. Instead, the movie and TV rental experience is faster and more refined -- it's a beautiful foal finally born from a bloated horse on its way to the glue factory, quite frankly.
Source is
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-12/05/xbox-dashboard-update
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