With the second major Xbox One update along with the headset adapter coming out this week; there are bound to be millions of questions on how to set up your Astro headsets with Xbox One. I’ve already heard reports of people not being able to properly set their headsets up and have had trouble getting their mic to work through the MixAmp. I’m here to solve your problems before they start! Continue Reading
The Twitch streaming services will finally be coming to Xbox One and will be available in time for the release of Titanfall, the Xbox One’s killer app. The Twitch app will be updated on March 11th when Titanfall releases, as reported by the Associated Press. Previously Xbox One owners were only able to upload clips from the Xbox Upload Studio but that’s all about to change.
It’s been a crazy week with so much going on. It’s been a challenge to try and keep up with it all.
First, earlier in the week Toy Fair 2014 kicked off in New York. I covered a lot of NECA’s toy line ups for the year. I’ve completed my coverage of Toy Fair today. I’ve covered a large majority of NECA’s toy releases for this year. I also covered Hasbro’s Star Wars 6″ Black Series line, as well as Mezco Toyz’ Breaking Bad licensed merchandise. I added a Game of Thrones section because I saw some very cool stuff that’s coming to the market soon. Most of it is for the high-end collectors.
There was a lot going on with Titanfall this week as well. I got into the beta last Friday, continued to play through Wednesday night, and captured a lot of in-game footage. We learned that Titanfall will have monsters and they can be a threat. I posted my first impressions of the beta and working on a final impressions with suggestions on how to improve the game.
On Tuesday this week, HBO’s original series Game of Thrones season 3 released on Blu-Ray and DVD. I posted an unboxing video of the Amazon collector’s set. I also found out that the Xbox One could not play the Game of Thrones Blu-Ray discs. I did some research and apparently these Blu-Ray discs have some DRM on them and may have affected more Blu-Ray players than just the Xbox One. Microsoft quickly corrected the problem and now Game of Thrones season 3 Blu-Ray discs work on your Xbox One machine.
This week Microsoft also began to send out invitations to random Xbox Live members to participate in the Xbox One Dashboard Preview Program. The next major Xbox One update will arrive March 4th. It will address the party and notification systems as well as a few other improvements to the system.
What did you do? Put your week in review, and have a great weekend.
The Xbox One’s second major update is scheduled to release on March 4th, a week before the release of Titanfall. This update will improve many features with the systems party chat and invitation features. Microsoft is sending invitations to select Xbox Live members and they will be receiving their dashboard beta tokens via the Xbox Live message system.
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Late last night around midnight on the East Coast, Respawn began to kill the servers, and one by one each server was brought down. You could hear the Internet cry out in sorrow as we now have to wait three weeks to play the full retail version of Titanfall. I was fortunate enough to continue playing until 2 AM, almost two hours after Respawn Entertainment killed the servers. So me and a few friends kept playing with whoever could still find our lobby. Search times were increased to nearly 10-15 minutes. I eventually became too tired to continue and so I signed off and said goodbye to the Titanfall Beta.
[Update #3] I have figured it out. The Xbox One Blu-Ray player is clearly having issues for perhaps a multitude of reasons. This issue is no longer isolated to just Game of Thrones season 3. I’ve now tested more Blu-Ray movies and Step Brothers came up as one that wasn’t recognized by the system.
First, disable BD Live in your Settings if you have it enabled.
If for whatever reason this happens and your Xbox One can not recognize a Blu-Ray movie don’t worry because there is an easy solution.
Also, for now if you’re having issues with audio sync, it’s because you have 24 Hz enabled. Disable that and you won’t have any audio issues. I think there is an issue with the user interface being 60 Hz and it confuses the television, or something to that effect.
There you have it. After trial and error I have solved this mystery. This could be a bug brought on by the February system update.
Has anyone experienced these issues before the February update?
[Update #2:] Just as I was about to sit down and enjoy my weekend it turns out that Microsoft has not in-fact fixed the Game of Thrones Blu-Ray situation. The other day Microsoft released an update for the Blu-Ray player that was supposed to fix this issue. It did, temporarily, but the issue has come back, and there’s no solution on the horizon. Except of course for the work around that I’ve provided below.
[Update:] Microsoft has issued an update that fixes a bug that was causing the Season 3 Game of Thrones Blu-Ray discs to not play on the Xbox One. Insert a season 3 Game of Thrones disc and the Blu-Ray player app will load up and prompt you to download an update.
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