![]() ![]() Here in Australia we don’t currently have access to the full range of streaming video services that the US offers. The nifty remote integrates a QWERTY keyboard. The Play/Pause button does not mean Play/Pause in all apps – again, YouTube uses the centre ‘enter’ button to play and pause videos. Most irritatingly of all, there’s no Boxee-enforced standard for how the buttons on the remote are implemented. Some apps drop you back to an ugly web browser interface for an instant before the app’s nice TV-friendly skin kicks in. For instance, every time we used the YouTube “app”, it would download “the latest version”. The software is dynamic, by which I mean it updates itself, and bits of itself, constantly over the internet. That best sums up the Boxee user experience. So you can suck movies off a PC in another room. There are two USB ports into which you can plug an external hard drive (there’s no internal storage) or thumbdrive, and the box has both Ethernet and WiFi built in. The box itself offers an HDMI output with 1080p output and support for pretty much any media format you can think of. ![]() It provides a clean, relatively straightforward interface, an excellent little remote with a miniaturised keyboard, and the ability to pipe the internet’s most popular streaming services – YouTube, Netflix, Hulu and more – direct to your TV without all that tedious mucking around in Windows. The Boxee Box is a hardware implementation of a free media server software package called Boxee. But does Boxee Box still really suit the uber-geek more than the mum and dad? Features Now, DLink has backed a one-time maverick project to bring this kind of functionality to the ordinary home user. ![]() For years, hardcore media-streamer PC hacker tinkerer types have scoffed at Apple TV’s limited feature set and built themselves Linux-based miniPCs that get a massive range of media formats to your TV at full 1080p. ![]()
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