NXE is here!

After much anticipation over the past several months,  it is finally here.  I officially updated my Xbox 360 to the New Xbox Experience dashboard at 6:45am this morning.  I had little time to play around with it before heading to work but was able to create my avatar and click through the main channels.   The avatar creation process was very straightforward and I was able to create an online representative I am happy with.  Netflix integration, certainly one of the most exciting new features, was not working when I tried.  I got an error message that communication could not be made with the Microsoft servers.  I can only assume this is either due to the large number of updates the server was working through or that it was too early in the day.  Speaking of Netflix, I read an article yesterday that Sony pictures will not make their content available for the 360.  Representatives from Microsoft seemed confident that they would come to a deal but there was no timeline given.  I am really looking forward to sitting down and really digging into the new features.  I really hope it doesn’t disappoint.