![]() ![]() With the planned fixes my only complaint now about the Boxee Box is the remote, its hard to see the keyboard in low light and the biggest issue I have it I use my Boxee Box in my Bedroom and watch things like Revision 3 Shows after my wife goes to sleep. I talked to Boxee’s CEO yesterday and told a fix is coming to fix the buffering issue. ![]() #Boxee box reviews isoThe WDTV Live can play all my Bluray ISO Rips without a problem, while the Boxee Box has trouble with a number of them, constantly buffering every few seconds. However compaired to the WDTV Live (And WDTV Live Plus… only different being the Live Plus support Netflix Streaming.) the WDTV Live does better on the local file streaming then the Boxee Box. I did my review of the Boxee Box where I pitted it up against GoogleTV. ![]() Considering everything it does, $199 is a bargain. It is a full-on AV powerhouse with a relatively low learning curve. Remember, it is SO much more than an internet TV device. Netflix and Hulu Plus will be here soon and then it will gain more mass acceptance. Kind of a drag to use in a darkened room, but still better and more functional than most remotes.īottom line: Boxee Box is a ton of fun to use, especially if you have patience, enjoy tweaking and add other app repositories. The QWERTY remote, while a great addition, needs at least have glow-in-the-dark letters if not backlit keys. If it is good for the future of Boxee, than it is good for us users even if we have to adapt unexpectedly. They are trying to strike a delicate balance between users and content partners which likely helps to explain the “upgrade”. This was the biggest fumble on Boxee’s part IMO. #Boxee box reviews how toI did not have any set up trouble and the Samba shares with my XP, Vista, USB & Buffalo networked drives just plain worked right the first time.Īs an early adopter I expect a certain amount of “fumbling in the dark” when learning how to use a new gadget and the switch from firmware. Plugged mine in on Friday despite initial concerns from the Boxee Forum that Ivan Y noted above. Although the UI is not as pleasing and that bundled Boxee QWERTY remote is hot… even if you can’t quickly determine top from bottom via touch. I suspect WDTV is mostly sufficient, plus it ships with a variety of apps that Boxee currently lacks. Yet I’d like to have also seen a comparison against the WDTV Live line - which boasts solid local media playback capabilities. Nilay does a nice job positioning the Boxee Box ($200) between a Roku or AppleTV and nettop HTPC in terms of expense and functionality. #Boxee box reviews softwareAdding insult to injury, as I blogged last week, the new Boxee Box software (v1.0) actually offers less functionality than the computer-based software (v.90) we’ve been running for some time. The ideas are all there, and our experience with the Boxee team has us confident in their vision and ability to execute, but the Box as shipped feels like less of a finished product than an excellent rough draft of the future.Īs with Google TV, many studio websites currently block video streaming from Boxee. The Boxee Box just isn’t polished enough to be worth the hassle right now. ![]()
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