For a while now its been rumoured there would be a dashboard update that would make it possible to download marketplace content in the background. Well Xboxic have news that this update has been confirmed and will be released later this month. This is great news for 360 owners, with most demos being 500MB+ and lots of trailers available its a great feature to do that in the background and not tie up use of the console.

The user marks a file to download and it will be put in an active queue downloadlist. There are 6 slots reserved in that queue. They will be downladed sequentially not in parallel! If the Xbox360 sees there is bandwith available it will boost the download speed up, if there. During Online Sessions the downloads will be paused to garantee no lags. It's also possible to turn off the console, after powering it back on the downloads will resume. When a download finishes the user will get a message that it has been downloaded. The bandwidth managmend looks like to be for lag free chats in the dashboard or some other features which will be implemented additionally, i think so cause during online sessions it will be paused anyway as he mentions in his response to my questions.