Even my 7 year old son was impressed by that! It’s a good idea, but the keys do need quite a firm press to register, presumably to prevent accidental keypress when using the other side.
#Boxee box reviews full#
The Boxee remote has had a lot of attention: it’s RF (no line of sight needed), and includes a full qwerty keyboard on the back. Hopefully it would prevent people being taken in by the ‘gold connector for best signal’ scam that some electrical shops operate (it’s a digital cable, it either works or it doesn’t!). A surprise inclusion was a HDMI cable - which I’ve not heard of manufacturers doing before. There is an external power brick, but not too big a one as it goes. (Box contents with miniature teapot for scale) It’s such a refreshing piece of industrial design. Not everyone will be a fan of the sinking cube look, but I definitely am. It’s small, solid and dares to be different. See more of the packaging on my Unboxing photo Flickr Set. Expecting the bog-standard ‘egg-box’ style innards, I got nice smooth black cardboard neatly nestling the hardware. I was pleasantly surprised at the quality of the Box packaging.
#Boxee box reviews update#
I’ve also been using the Boxee Beta (v0.9) a lot on my Mac and an Acer Netbook, so a lot of this review is comparison between this and the version you get on the box after the first update (v1.0). It’s off to a tough start already when I’m not bothered about the social ‘sharing’ side of Boxee, or for it’s multitude of online video apps. You can pick up a PS3 slim for only £30 more than the Boxee Box in the UK, so it’s got to provide a much better media hub experience to be worth it. I’m also approaching the Boxee Box from this standpoint: I have a PS3 that can play CDs/DVDs/Blurays and all the files on my NAS via DLNA, access BBC iPLayer as well as films from LoveFilm and Mubi. So if you’re reading this and thinking “Why not buy a Roku?” remember that even if we could get the box in the UK, we still couldn’t get the services! We do have LoveFilm, Blinkbox and Spotify, but these aren’t yet supported in Boxee. There are many online content providers that aren’t available here, such as Netflix, Vudu, Hulu and Pandora.
Next, let me state the conditions and criteria of this review. There are many excellent reviews out there, and I will try not to cover the same ground as those, so make sure you also read: However, I saw some more reviews, spoke to the Boxee CEO Avner Ronen and saw his responses to the issues and felt confident again.
#Boxee box reviews software#
I cancelled my order, preferring to try the desktop software first to be sure that it still suited me as much as the beta.
All issues I have with Boxee Box are potentially solvable via firmware updates though! The Long ReviewĪfter waiting 11 months for it be released, it was a shock when I discovered that the final Boxee Box UI had undergone so many radical changes. However, it has a mass of regressions from the beta version: missing functionality, downgraded UI aesthetics & usability and online content is given more importance than your own files. The Boxee Box is a well made, beautiful piece of hardware that plays even large mkv files without complaining.
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