From GayGamer: Prepare Thyself For The New Xbox Experience, Live Tomorrow

This is it, Xbox 360 gamers: tomorrow we'll say goodbye to the blades of our beloved dashboard and welcome a tiered 3D window array. Change is in the WiFi, my good friends!

Instead of blades, we'll welcome eight categories of horizontal boxes such as "Welcome," "Friends," "My Xbox" and "Video Marketplace." We'll also see a lot of ads, which appear to be one of the real reasons behind the redesign. And while at least three of the new categories seem to be devoted entirely to ads and XBL notifications, we'll be getting Avatars and "parties" (non-game-dependent groupings of friends, kind of like Xbox-wide guilds, who can chat to each other even as they're playing different games - or on different sides of the same game). Surely that's enough to distract us from the ads.

No? How about the new game search feature, Spotlight? Or the ability to buy games and game updates from Xbox.com when you're away from your console?

Still not convinced? Microsoft's also beefing up the Video Marketplace with a Netflix viewer, as I'm sure most of you have heard. Netflix's HD content will be available through the "Video Marketplace" channel and should be good to go for current Netflix subscribers, with only a small additional update required. HD video quality will be the first thing I check out on the new dash - Sony's video store delivers HD movies at 720, for instance, with stereo sound. I'm hoping that Netflix brings an audio upgrade if nothing else, since high definition and surround sound belong together.