Last year's Xbox 360 fall dashboard update brought with it ESPN3 support, allowing for a selection of sports content to be streamed to the console. All that's required is an Xbox Live Gold subscription and an Internet service provider that delivers ESPN3. It's hardly perfect, but it did allow for sports fans to take in 32 college football bowl games this past December and January. While the app has gotten some minor upgrades since launch, it'll be getting a big revamp next month with ESPN 2.0.
According to Gizmodo, the updated app will still deliver the same ESPN3 content as before, which will immediately cause some to lose interest. For those who do care about what it has on tap -- college football, in particular -- there will be a wealth of new features available beginning on August 25, including the ability to simultaneously watch two streams in 720p that can be independently paused and rewinded with a controller or Kinect voice commands.
Besides the obvious benefits of watching two different games, it opens the door for other possibilities: you could have highlights or stats on one side while watching a game on the other, or you could watch a game on both sides and rewind through one of them to see something a second time. One example that was given saw a soccer game playing on one side while rewinding through the other to show someone a goal they missed.
Also new is the mini guide, located at the bottom of the screen, which allows you to easily see what other games are on (making it easy to start watching them) while also keeping tabs on their scores. The right side of the screen will feature a live scoreboard that will initially only have college football.
Hopefully ESPN3's content offering will continue to expand over time. (Social features and content recommendations will be improving starting with this update.) For college football fans, the ability to watch two games or enjoy two different streams of the same game should make the 360 app the preferred way for watching the sport this fall.
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