Maybe I'm blind, but I can't find any way to redeem codes through the dashboard. Did Microsoft seriously design a QR code-only console redemption process and then send me a QR-less code day one? I'm assuming I just wasn't looking in the right place because that seems like too massive an oversight

Shout XBOX REDEEM CODE until it works.

@alexw00d: surprisingly that didn't work when I tried it 10 minutes ago. It did manage to take me to where I can buy movies

you need to say "xbox USE code" or go to the store and select the tile labeled "use code"

Its buried deep in the menu unless you use Kinect and say "xbox use a code"

What about if you whisper sweet nothings to it?

Thank you. How do they not just assume everyone would say "redeem" after that's been their keyword for it over the entire last decade?

@shadow: Yea, Last night (or early morning depending on how you look at it) I used the "xbox, use code" command to get my day one achievement and then this afternoon I sat there yelling Xbox, Redeem code!" at my xbox for like a minute before realizing it wanted me to say USE code...