Boxee Box by D-Link

MarkLP · 3 Oct 2010 at 00:29

Anyone else pre-ordered one of these? Can't wait for mine to turn up 10th November

Everything you want.
The Boxee Box brings all your favorite TV shows & movies from the Internet or your hard drive onto your TV - no PC needed.

More bang, less buck.
Why pay for stuff you don't watch? The Boxee Box lets you watch thousands of popular TV shows and movies for FREE!

Tailored to your TV.
With the Boxee Box you never need to "surf the Web" on your TV, instead you just use your remote control to pick and choose the best digital entertainment. No keyboard required.

It plays almost everything.
The Boxee Box plays any non-DRM media. If you can create it, Boxee will play it.

Just plain easy.
Connecting the Boxee Box to your HDTV is as easy as hooking up a DVD player.

QWERTY Keyboard comes standard
The backside of our remote features a full keyboard to make it easier to interact with your TV -- say goodbye to hunting and pecking for letters on-screen!

Share with friends.
Boxee makes it easy for friends to share their favorite movies, TV Shows, and songs with each other, on Boxee or on social networks like Facebook and Twitter.

kg648 · 3 Oct 2010 at 08:26

The fact it is made by D-Link puts me off.

Cstark · 5 Oct 2010 at 15:14

Keeping an eye on this!

Participant · 5 Oct 2010 at 15:21

So, an Acer Revo that doesn't allow you to browse the internet?

ntemples1 · 5 Oct 2010 at 15:38

I am curious about this too, I have an acer revo and it's great, will this be any better?

Azza · 5 Oct 2010 at 15:40

?

Clipsey · 5 Oct 2010 at 16:09

I tried boxee the other day, lasted about 15 mins before I uninstalled it. Like the idea of this but I won't go near it.

MarkLP · 5 Oct 2010 at 19:11

What didn't you like about the Boxee?

I agree if you already have a Revo, then there isn't much point going for this.

Bubba · 5 Oct 2010 at 20:50

Didnt like boxee myself, I know its based on XBMC but all the social networking features I dont need.

Also they cant be serious about the shape of this thing? What idiot thought that was a good idea?

DanF · 6 Oct 2010 at 12:39

I didn't like the boxee layout, seemed like a complex skin and the defaults that show a load of rent on demand movies was really annoying. It wasn't as simple as xbmc with something like Alaska skin.

valve90210 · 6 Oct 2010 at 14:47

MarkLP said:
Anyone else pre-ordered one of these? Can't wait for mine to turn up 10th November

Tailored to your TV.
With the Boxee Box you never need to "surf the Web" on your TV, instead you just use your remote control to pick and choose the best digital entertainment. No keyboard required.

Brilliant, sounds great...

MarkLP said:
QWERTY Keyboard comes standard

Hang on, why is this needed if no keyboard is needed??? :confused:

Methinks someone should have taken a closer look at the wording and sorted this out as it will confuse less savvy people!!!

Valve

MarkLP · 6 Oct 2010 at 21:30

I think they mean you don't need a separate keyboard as it's built in?

StevenG · 7 Oct 2010 at 08:54

i was more excited about this when it was going to have the nvidia ion chip instead of intels new chip.

think i'll be getting a revo and putting xbmc on that.

valve90210 · 7 Oct 2010 at 09:45

MarkLP said:
I think they mean you don't need a separate keyboard as it's built in?

Definitely but it is a poor bit of copy writing and could confuse less savvy peeps.

Valve

Participant · 7 Oct 2010 at 10:12

valve90210 said:
Brilliant, sounds great...

Hang on, why is this needed if no keyboard is needed???

Methinks someone should have taken a closer look at the wording and sorted this out as it will confuse less savvy people!!!

Valve

Just because it's not absolutely required, doesn't mean it's not worth having.

Anyone confused by that is a bit thick tbh.

DanF · 7 Oct 2010 at 10:20

After looking at google tv and the Logitech Revue isn't this a bit dead in the water?

http://www.logitech.com/en-us/smartTV/revue

Robert · 30 Oct 2010 at 09:11

Rich · 30 Oct 2010 at 14:45

Was looking forward to these but £200 is a joke.

Robert · 30 Oct 2010 at 14:58

Rich said:
Was looking forward to these but £200 is a joke.

Not really when you consider a bog standard device from costco is £100.

kidloco · 1 Nov 2010 at 09:52

Im really hoping this box lives up to its promise. If it does ill be ordering one this month. Price isnt that bad if it does everything its supposed to do. UI looks nice as well.