There are moments where the Box just fails a little and tarnishes the experience.But like I said, for the most part I really like it. I fall just short of loving it because of so many tiny quirks. As a user of Boxee from it's early software days, who put up with the decision to focus on expensive hardware, I can't see myself being a Boxee user much longer.įor the most part, I really, really, really like my Boxee Box.
AirPlay is still a checkbox hidden way down in a menu and marked as beta. There are bugs that will probably never get fixed, and half-completed features that will apparently stay that way forever. With Boxee saying they're never going to release new features for the Boxee Box I'm pretty disappointed. I thought I was spending $200 on something that was going to last me a while, rather than $70 on a Roku that would need to be replaced every few years. It seems like the premium for the original Boxee Box over the others was going to be more power, more future-proofing, more everything. Now that it's clear Boxee has a very bad habit of dropping support for their products, it's hard to recommend the original Boxee Box or even the new TV version. Interested in the Boxee Box or Netflix? For a free two week trial of Netflix visit and to try out Boxee’s free software (the 1.The Boxee Box is by no means perfect, but compared to Roku, Apple TV and some of the more DIY options I think it has a place. If the whole device sounds magical, it kind of is.
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One of the coolest features is actually the dual-sided remote one side is a directional pad, pause and menubutton, while the other is a full QWERTY keyboard.
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Instead I use my Boxee Box to stream the show wirelessly to my TV in 1080p and 7.1 surround sound. I filled a network-accesible hard drive with backups of my DVD collection, and now don’t have to switch DVDs to watch the next episode of Battlestar Galactica. My most used feature is the streaming function. There are 3rd Party Repositories of Apps with have hundreds of other uses and new ones are added all the time. The Box has an SD card slot for videos or photos from digital cameras and friends apps to run everything from Revision3 or internet television, to Al Jazeera English and the Big Ten Network. You can download the software at and try it on your computer, but the Boxee Box is a home media streaming internet device, that plugs directly into your entertainment center bringing free internet video into your living room.
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Netflix for Boxee is available for download now via a system update so go get it for yourself and happy streaming!įor those who don’t even know what a Boxee Box is, it’s similar to a Roku, AppleTV or GoogleTV, but if anything, even more powerful. Additionally, they changed the normal control scheme (up/down for volume and Menu to go back) in favor of a new scheme which defies my muscle memory. But if the point was to get it out into the wild, the boys and girls at Boxee have finally pushed it. Browsing the content, there is no obvious way to find just HD content without opening it’s detail page, and the interface is almost too watered down, without the bold red of previous versions – which I really enjoyed. Unfortunately, no app is perfect and this one has room for improvement.
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