#boxeebox

[instashinobi]

Coming: My review of the new #Google #Chromecast, #AppleTV, #BoxeeBox #cordcutting (at Konohagakure)

[damgudesign]

#Boxee Box and Remote.# Designed by Astro Studios. Lead designer was my good colleague Mich Alvarez. I supported Mich on the engineering side. Phillipe Lavanchy of Cerny PD did the CAD work on the remote. Detail engineering on the Box was handled by D-Link's engineers in China. Phillips did the engineering on the remote. At the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show, the Boxee Box received the following accolades: - LAPTOP's Best of CES 2010 - Best Home Entertainment Device - Last Gadget Standing - International CES Best Of Innovations 2010 for Home Theater Accessories - Popular Science's Best of CES 2010, Products of the Future

[kodefuguru]

I don't bother with cable tv anymore due to devices like BoxeeBox. I'm using AppleTV, but of course the API is rather closed off. I'm considering switching over to Boxee simply so I can play around with it, and with cool projects like this on github, there's almost no reason to wait.

[uilian]

WISH LIST GEEK #8 - Boxee Box TV (media center)

Este é o primeiro item póstumo da wish list, visto que eu pensei em fazer o post, mas não me aguentei e comprei antes. Claro, isto porque estava em promoção na GoGeek, praticamente o mesmo preço lá de fora.

Muita gente conhece o software livre Boxee, que transforma o seu PC em um media center profissional. A maioria das pessoas que entendem de computador vão usar para sempre desta forma.

Mas a DLink (aquela mesma dos roteadores) criou uma caixinha bonitinha para aqueles que não querem ter que se preocupar com atualização de software, ou esperar boot do computador, ou ter que conectar ou parear o computador com a TV, etc ... Tudo isso com um acabamento impecável, e sem produção de ruído ou calor excessivo, que é o que me incomoda no uso do computador como media center.

Esse é o Boxee Box, uma caixinha que não lembra em nada um computador, com entradas de cartão, USB, saída HDMI e ainda por cima você pode escolher conectá-la a rede local por cabo ou wireless!

A melhor parte é que ele vem com um controle remoto de dois lados, um parecendo mais um controle de TV simplificado, e o outro um teclado QWERTY normal. Perfeito para um dispositivo que te dá acesso não só ao seu conteúdo local, mas também uma infinidade de conteúdos online.

Ligando um HD externo no Boxee Box, ele vira praticamente um NAS (network-attached storage), e assim eu já mapeio downloads direto para ele, e quando termina já está tudo lá disponível para assistir. Tudo rápido e sem complicação. E claro, você pode conectar com suas redes sociais favoritas e ter acesso a conteúdo compartilhado pelos seus amigos, entre outras coisas.

Para streaming de conteúdo, a velocidade recomendada é de 5 mega. Eu acho pouco, eu tenho 10 mega e alguns serviços demoram um pouco a fazer cache. E tem o Netflix vindo aí, a DLink prometeu para o início do mês de Novembro o aplicativo do Netflix Brasil para o Boxee. É esperar para ver :)

Conforme eu mencionei, o Boxee Box está disponível por R$ 349,00 na GoGeek, não sei por quanto tempo, já que o preço arbitrariamente abusivo, desproporcional e injusto normal é algo em torno de 700 reais.

[amadotti]

It's the ultimate media box "Boxee" so far I only can say I'm in love & so glad with my new #device. They've nailed it with so much freedom, Netflix I'm coming #greatproducts #boxee #boxeeBox #mediahub #mediacenter (Taken with instagram)

[pgzdatalabs-blog]

D-Link Adds Spotify:2011-10-14 18:59:21:London:Internet music sharing service Spotify has cut a deal wth D #:

[dalit-held-blog]

How to save 3k a year or - How to become the master of your (T.V) domain

     Following the ongoing demonstrations here in Israel about the cost of living, I’d like to share with you my experience in saving 3K a year -

 DISCONNECT from your Cable T.V, and use other alternatives!   When was the last time you watched T.V and mumbled “there’s nothing to see”? Don’t you want to come home from work and just lay down on the sofa and watch your favorite show without any efforts? without waiting for the show to come up?   Here is my practical solution to decrease T.V cost - a “getting started” tutorial :

Disconnect from cable T.V now  - cause there is nothing to watch especially when you want it most in your free time (unless you pay extra for VOD).  

Buy a streamer - a device that gets your T.V connected to your home network  

Not just any streamer - buy a Boxee box streamer  

Get all your favorite T.V shows and movies -preferably in a legal way ;)   

Come home, relax and watch whatever you want, whenever you want

  So why Boxee Box Streamer?   Besides being a hot and beautiful gadget, Boxee has a great UX! you won’t believe how easy is to manage your TV content in a smooth and elegant way - with its cool remote control (forget about clumsy keyboards around your living room).

"And finally ... a device that could do what few in the industry have managed - make Apple's rival product distinctively second best. Rory Cellan-Jones, BBC” 

    Some of the highlights of the Boxee box from my perspective -

See your local movies and series from your home network in an amazing way. In addition, the Boxee brings all related information from the web regarding your local content automatically such as subtitles, trailers, an IMDB rating , description, etc.  

Connects you to the real VOD of the world - the Internet(!) - watch movies, episodes, straight to your T.V easily using a remote control and with no efforts.  

Enriching the T.V watching experience - Boxee has growing repository of applications library - like Navi-X,Pandora, Netflix, youTube, RSS Feeds, TED, Revision3, AcuuWeather and many more (depends on location) which definitely enhanced my watch T.V experience.

  Price is around 200$ (less than 3 months of TV cable) - ROI is guaranteed here.

The Boxee box is a small and beautiful gadget and does not need a lot of space (like for a "media center" computer)

  In short - become the master of your own (content) domain - watch what ever you want, when ever you want.   There is a lot more functionality which i didn't mention here, because i'm busy enjoying the ones above...but boxee has a lot more to offer.....   Saving 3K per year has never been easier and funnier!     For all those that are asking about Boxee box competitors - so here is an answer from "The Next Web" (an International Technology News, Business and Culture site)   "So how does it stack up? In comparison to Apple’s TV, Boxee has nearly double the resolution and plays almost any file format while Apple TV is great for iTunes and stuff you can play on your iPod. Google TV is pretty amazing but Boxee is trying to replicate the TV watching experience with a remote as opposed to having to use a keyboard in your living room. Roku currently pushes all its content through 100 apps, while Boxee is adding over 400 apps from its library plus over 40,000 TV episodes and thousands of movies so no contest here. In comparison to Apple’s much anticipated HDTV? We’ll just have to wait and see."   The Boxee is the easiest way to bring movies, TV shows, photos and music from the web to your TV, I'm already using it and you?  

[alaurie-blog]

Boxee Box

So after three days with the Boxee Box by D-link I am pretty impressed with it so far. It has played every .mkv, .avi and .iso I have thrown at it and is near silent. Alot of the backend setup is the same as XBMC since it is a fork, so if you have used XBMC before you should have no problems. The current issues I have are:

1. The home screen is biased towards online content. I would rather have my local library and RSS feeds on my home screen and there is no choice to change it.

2. There is no "Music" quick link on the main bar, you have to navigate to it via "Files" and no fetching of metadata and album art from the net.

3. IMDB is the only scraper for video metadata. Now this is fine for movies but absolutely crap for TV series eg: Sharpe is a TV series not a set of movies but IMDB list them as movies. Give me the option to use TVDB.org and themoviedb.org as they are both far superior to IMDB.

4. Theme/Skinning options, I'm sorry but the default boxee theme is god awful. Give the community an option to create some themes.