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Boxee began life as media player software, before D-Link built this rather striking Box to house it in. Back in December we were less than impressed by its glitchy, unstable firmware, but the newly updated Box is a different beast.
Cool design
The aesthetics might not be for everyone, but you have to hand it to the company for giving some thought to the design. It’s packed it with features, too, including dual-band Wi-Fi and an RF system that means the remote still works if it’s out of sight. Thanks to a full-fat web browser, it can access loads of content, some of which (such as iPlayer and Flickr) it installs apps for. These services aren’t optimised for Boxee but at least they’re available – more than can be said for many of its rivals.
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Sort it out
The Boxee also has awesome format support. It scans your network shares and greedily gobbles up the media it finds, regurgitating those horrible file names as an organised library of entertainment complete with metadata and artwork. We’ve yet to see a similar device that can manage this, and it’s a major plus.
The Boxee’s remote is a two-faced little so-and-so, with a simple, stripped-down button layout on one side and a full QWERTY keyboard that speeds up web navigation on the other. If that isn’t to your taste, you can download the Boxee Remote app for iDevices, or plug a USB IR receiver into its USB port and use a standard universal remote.
For the best of the web paired with the most accomplished streaming around, the Boxee really delivers.
Comments
wakrafhan
23 weeks ago
I make $82h while I'm traveling the world. Last week I worked by my laptop in Rome, Monti Carlo and finally Paris…This week I'm back in the USA. All I do are easy tasks from this one cool site. check it out, bing30.com
chrisneillees
1 year ago
I recently received the D-Link Boxee Box for Christmas. On first impressions it seems great, a little clunky but fine.
However, when I started searching the available apps I noticed that they are all from the U.S. with a notable exception of BBC iPlayer. This is annoying but certainly was not enough for me to write it off.
Then I searched using the browser app for 4OD, LoveFilm, TV Catchup, in fact pretty much all of the websites I currently use to stream tv on my PC.
Unfortunately the device needs Flash and since it appears D-Link and the Boxee developers have not and will not sort this out (from looking on forum threads this seems to be a problem that has existed for more than a year) none of these websites stream anything.
So basically this box can access your media in much the same way as your computer can but not much else. At least if you are in the UK.
I would urge you not to waste your money and don't be fooled (like I was) by its media machine talking up its capabilities.
harrymac
1 year ago
got the lgst600 had it out of the box and back in within 24 hours what a complete let down was waiting for it for months and it was a total flop have presently connected up my imac and my 50 inch samsung by way of a HDMI cable till i either get a nrew smart tv or purchase a unit like the lg but with more content to it.
nodrog3001
2 years ago
Looks great, hopefully the glitches will be ironed out in an update. Just brought one whilst abroad, looking forward to firing it up when home!