Amazon has the D-Link Boxee Box Streaming Media Player for pre-order for $200 with free shipping. Runs Boxee software, allowing streaming from online video sites including MTV, Digg, TED Talks, Netflix and Pandora. Also features full 1080p support, USB ports for external hard drive connectivity, 802.11n, and a QWERTY remote. Scheduled for release in November.
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This is a full price pre-order for November delivery.
This is a full price waste of money. You can get a similar nettop system for the price and twice (if not more) the capabilities.
This is a full price waste of money. You can get a similar nettop system for the price and twice (if not more) the capabilities.
Video Formats:
Adobe Flash 10.1,
FLV/On2 VP6 (FLV/FV4/M4V),
H.264 AVC (TS/AVI/MKV/MOV/M2TS/MP4),
VC-1 (TS/AVI/MKV/WMV),
MPEG-1 (DAT/MPG/MPEG),
MPEG-2 (MPG/MPEG/VOB/TS/TP/ISO/IFO),
MPEG-4 (MP4/AVI/MOV),
DivX 3/4/5/6 (AVI/MKV), Xvid (AVI/MKV),
WMV9 (WMV/ASF/DVR-MS)
if performance is decent, this is not bad.
This market is fixing to explode....
#2, you can get a mildly similar nettop, but it'll have the useless Intel 950 video decelerator. At least here, they picked out a video chip that should decode 1080. It's worth paying the same for something that does the job, and won't waste several weekends to set up.
Just the same, I'll stick by a flash stick and my cheap WDTV.
M tight little black box
#6 what the hell are you talking about.
WDTV live refurbed onsale yesterday for $55 for one, $90 for 2 yesterday.
While not as user friendly and not as social as Boxee it play almost everything under the sun that is in your "flash stick". Its what #6 is talking about.
For one of these you can get 4 WDTVs and stick in each room and move your Flash cards/hard drive around.
Oh come on, your WDTV won't look as cool as this. Haven't you paid attention to Apple products?
this may be hard to fit into my media tower. Great. Why did they have to fark with the dimensions? Why not make a simple box or cube?
I tried the Boxee beta on a HTPC and didn't like it. It would not play Blu-Ray ISOs and at that time they were not planning support for them due to licensing costs. A WDTV Live will playback BD ISOs. I'll take a wait and see position on the Boxee Box. Unless there have been dramatic improvements I'll just stay with Western Digital for now.
I have Boxee on my htpc and it's pretty cool but mine won't play BR either. For BR I still have to rely on the Cyberlink PowerDVD WMC plugin.
Boxee is neat, but it sucks that networks keep pulling content (like abc) to force you to go to their site to watch. It has a lot of potential but it has some technical hurtles as well as content access to overcome before it's ready for Prime Time, so to speak.
I have had the old Apple TV for about 2 years now and I love that, haven't paid for cable since then and probably saved 2K. It would be cool to get some of the network stuff without torrenting it though. #13, what can you still watch on it? What else do you get beyond an Apple TV? Does it have a built-in hard drive?