![]() ![]() Hulu Plus was promised when the Boxee Box launched, but so far, even after questions from Congress, no indication of it actually becoming available. If none of those appeal, find your favorites in the app list.Īnd if your preferred method of entertainment is torturing visitors with videos of your kids being cute or your latest personal keytar composition, the Boxee Box has 2 USB ports and an SD slot so you can plug in whatever files you like.īut at least for now, there is one area where the Roku has an advantage-you can watch Hulu Plus with it, but not with the Boxee. MLB.tv is priced similarly, but with a more expensive Premium option as well. The NHL subscription will run you $19.99/month or $79.99/year, which could be useful about now if you're a Sharks or Canucks fan. You can also get your sports fix through the MLB and NHL apps. There are also for-rent movies through VUDU, and well over 100 apps in the app library to connect you to sites like Flickr, Facebook, and Pandora. Plus you get the benefit of not having to wait until next week-we watched seven seasons of Lost in three months. Just because it hasn't been on the air in two (five, ten) years, doesn't mean it's not still a good show. The Boxee Box has become our Netflix player, which is great for movies and older TV series. That will give Boxee a content edge over CBS-free devices, at least for fans of that channel's shows. You can scroll through a list of recently updated shows, watch clips, or choose from shows you've starred as favorites.įor my own viewing habits, watching current TV this way rather than via cable or satellite has had only one major problem: CBS shows (read: The Big Bang Theory), which aren't available now but are supposed to be available for purchase through Boxee later this year. Want to watch last night's episode of Fringe or Glee? The Boxee has it waiting for you. Then we bought a Roku, which seemed like a pretty good solution-until the Boxee came in. ![]() That worked OK, too, but it moved the PS3 to the room where we watched TV more and took it away from the room where we played games more. We used a PlayStation 3 as a media center for a while. We discussed all the options of hardware and software for building our own, but never got very far on the actual building part. To give this review context, my household's HTPC history is short on booming successes. The Boxee Box got a bit of bad press last week since the latest firmware update caused problems with surround sound. In full disclosure, the company was kind enough to send me one for review, but as anyone who has seen me in the last month can tell you, I've been a genuine fan since we first plugged it in. It's a tiny, black almost-cube that comes pre-installed with Boxee. You can go download the Boxee software and install it on your own hardware, or you can purchase the Boxee Box by D-Link, made by D-Link. It started life as a fork of the open source XBMC software, which was created for first-gen Xbox consoles. There are tons of options, both in the software and hardware parts, for building your own from scratch. You wouldn't want to have to reboot your cable box as often as you do a Windows machine, would you? Linux is known for being stable over long periods of time. Linux-based HTPC (home theater PC) systems have been proliferating, and with good reason. The Boxee Box, available since November 2010 with firmware recently upated to 1.1, is a winning compromise that makes a Linux-based HTPC easy enough for the least technical user. ![]()
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