Xbox Live Gold members get a nice ESPN update

Reaffirming its strategy to evolve the Xbox 360 into an all-in-one entertainment device, Microsoft debuted an update to its Xbox Live ESPN sports offering Thursday.

The new ESPN on Xbox Live channel adds a number of new or updated features, such as event reminders, sports news notifications, voice controls via Xbox Kinect and an easily accessible college football scoreboard. Perhaps the most notable addition is the ability to watch a live sports game while also checking scores, reading news or even watching a second game via a new split screen feature.

Previously, Xbox Live Gold members had access to sports content from ESPN3, which includes live events and highlights from over 400 college football games, 31 bowl games and 75 exclusive games (about 50 of those happening in the first five weeks of the season). But the user experience wasn’t very impressive, according to avid Xbox gamer, sports nut and Geeks of Doom Managing Editor Jay Dussault.

“It was pretty cool for highlights and such, but most of the live events I found were weird sports like cricket and rugby — sometimes soccer,” Dussault said, adding that he rarely thought to use his Xbox when more exciting sports games were available.

However, the new features available in the update optimize the experience of viewing ESPN3 content on an Xbox.

“The focus on more exciting sports, reminders of what’s on, and the ability to watch split screen paired with the live alerts and Bottom Line (and perhaps having the ability to control it with voice commands via Kinect) make it well worth having for sports nuts,” Dussault said.

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Apple QuickTime releases security update for Mac OS X Leopard and Windows 7.7

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Apple Releases QuickTime 7.7 Security Update for Mac OS X Leopard and Windows - MacRumors.com window.fbAsyncInit = function() { FB.init({ appId : '263507923666566', status : true, // check login status cookie : true, // enable cookies to allow the server to access the session xfbml : true // parse XFBML }); }; (function() { var e = document.createElement('script'); e.src = document.location.protocol + '//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js'; e.async = true; document.getElementById('fb-root').appendChild(e); }()); Front Page Mac Blog iOS Blog Buyer's Guide ForumsGot a tip for us? Share it...Twitter ? Facebook ? RSSa. Send us an emailb. Anonymous formclose (x)Apple Releases QuickTime 7.7 Security Update for Mac OS X Leopard and WindowsThursday August 4, 2011 8:37 am PDT by Eric SlivkaApple yesterday released a pair of QuickTime 7.7 updates for Mac OS X Leopard and Windows XP/Vista/7 users. According to an associated support document, the updates bring fixes for fourteen separate issues related to security.QuickTime 7.7 improves security and is recommended for all Mac OS X Leopard users.

For information on the security content of this update, please visit this website: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222.

The update weighs in at 68.85 MB for Mac OS X Leopard and 37.15 MB for Windows.[ 17 comments ]Tweet Top Rated Comments(View all)

Mr. Retrofire4 days ago at 12:36 pmQuick Time 7 was tossed into the Utilities folder when you updated to 10.6.

I did not update to 10.6, kid. My newest MBP (17", Early-2011) came already with 10.6.7. What now!? :D

Quick Time X replaced QT7.

No, QuickTime X in 10.6 uses still the old QT7 API, "under the hood". I know this, because i write QuickTime-based software.

AVFoundation is a new technology that first appeared in iOS and has just been included in OS X with the 10.7 release.

The AV Foundation framework appeared first in iMovie for iOS. Final Cut Pro X included it first on the desktop OS platform (one month before Lion). That is the reason why FCPX runs also on Snow Leopard (not just Lion).Rating: 2 Positives / 0 Negativesmunkees3 days ago at 02:26 pm
I guess it's time for Apple to drop QuickTime for Windows as a separate product, fold it into iTunes and remove all extra features like QT Player, control panel and internet plugins. And especially get rid of the absurdity that is QuickTime Pro.

The thing about QT7 Pro, that QTX does not do is sequence of images into a movie, it very fast and efficient, that is why I still use QT 7 pro. Wish :apple: would of added the pro features to QT XRating: 1 Positives / 0 NegativesxStep4 days ago at 12:00 pmThey replaced it in OS X 10.7 (with AV Foundation), not 10.6.

Quick Time 7 was tossed into the Utilities folder when you updated to 10.6. Quick Time X replaced QT7.

AVFoundation is a new technology that first appeared in iOS and has just been included in OS X with the 10.7 release. Apple expects developers to use it instead of the older QT technology for new development.Rating: 2 Positives / 1 Negativesppc_michael4 days ago at 11:43 amlooks like a pretty big update security wise but, I'm guessing i've already got it for Lion then?

Quicktime 7 is absent from Lion unless you specifically download it.Rating: 1 Positives / 0 NegativesAriX4 days ago at 12:01 pmThey replaced it in OS X 10.7 (with AV Foundation), not 10.6.

That's not true. Quicktime 7 was replaced with Quicktime X in 10.6, although both are still supported in both 10.6 and 10.7. What you linked to is just a new framework.

It's nice to see that Apple still provides security updates for Leopard. A lot of people still use it, and Apple's recent decisions regarding backwards compatibility have bothered me a bit. (Rosetta's demise, as well as Xcode 4's inability to develop for anything before 10.6, and Apple's removal of Carbon tools from Xcode 3).Rating: 1 Positives / 1 NegativesArtOfWarfare4 days ago at 09:26 amQuickTime X isn't on Windows?Rating: 0 Positives / 0 NegativesKing Flamez14 days ago at 09:26 amlooks like a pretty big update security wise but, I'm guessing i've already got it for Lion then?Rating: 0 Positives / 0 NegativesKing Flamez14 days ago at 09:27 amQuickTime X isn't on Windows?

i think u can pay extra and get itRating: 0 Positives / 0 Negativesgumblecosby4 days ago at 10:21 amQuickTime X isn't on Windows?

Quicktime X is not Quicktime 7. Quicktime 7 is Apple's old video foundation which was replaced by Quicktime X in 10.6.

Its nice to see leopard get updates still.Rating: 0 Positives / 0 Negativesblackboxxx4 days ago at 12:29 pmWhile about a decade ago QuickTime tried to be the video standard of the web and competed against Windows Media and Real (remember Real? :D), it has lost to Flash long ago, and now HTML5 is the new contender. I haven't seen any website that uses QT (except apple.com) in the past five years. Windows 7 now even plays most .mov files natively. The only remaining reason to have QuickTime on your PC is to run iTunes.

They stopped updating QuickTime 7 with new features long ago, and continue pushing out updates just to fix security bugs, of which there are plenty (I'm serious – it's worse than Flash).

I guess it's time for Apple to drop QuickTime for Windows as a separate product, fold it into iTunes and remove all extra features like QT Player, control panel and internet plugins. And especially get rid of the absurdity that is QuickTime Pro.Rating: 0 Positives / 0 Negatives
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