Recommend it to your friends on those networks and include a link so they can immediately check it out too. Not an issue Setting up your Boxee Box is a breeze.
Connect the power, connect your TV and hit power. The Boxee Box will walk you through the rest — from creating an account to setting up your network to getting the most out of your HDTV. Actual product appearance may differ from the image displayed on this page. Product Awards. Video Home Vision Testsieger. Power up the Boxee Box by pressing and holding the power button for seconds. Upon release, the Box will boot with the logo turned orange. After the Recovery Menu appears, connect your thumb drive to the Boxee Box, wait 2 seconds, then select Upgrade from USB from the menu, and follow on-screen instructions.
This may be caused by interference from other wireless devices or other Boxee Boxes in the vicinity. We recommend that you pair the remote control with the Boxee Box. If you forget your password for Boxee, click here: Forgot my Boxee Password. After following the onscreen instructions an email will be sent to your email with instructions on how to change your password. Boxee does not charge you any monthly fees.
If you don't like the remote control for whatever reason, it's also possible to download free remote control applications for iOS or Android smartphones, using the touchscreen to run the full Boxee experience wirelessly. The Boxee software will download movie posters and descriptions automatically Credit: D-Link.
The Boxee interface, even on first install, is very slick and easy to manage. Once we'd sorted out our network connection, the Box noticed that a newer version of Boxee was available, and set to downloading it. This was slightly less refined than much of the rest of the install, with the word "CALC" displayed in plain type, followed by a countdown that froze a few times while downloading.
As it counted down, it became apparent that the text should be giving us an approximate time to download, but for whatever reason, it didn't have a large enough text box, telling us instead that it would take "7 mi Once that was done, we set up a Boxee account, which requires an email address you can verify from.
This allows you to send RSS feeds of particular videos direct to your Boxee, as well as add your social-networking accounts so that the videos your friends send through can be viewed. Whether those videos are worth watching depends on the type of friends you've got — the Boxee Box can't do everything.
Once you've verified your account, the final step involves deciding on the primary way you'll use the Boxee Box. The choice is between choosing "mostly stuff from the web", "mostly my own files" or "I'm not sure", and it's possible to change this post-install; it primarily determines the way the main screen will come up at boot time.
The Boxee interface is easily one of the best on the market. The comparison with the Apple TV interface is an inevitable one, but the ability for Boxee to add applications including web browsing give it a boost over Apple's interface. Those of an adventurous mind should note that it is possible to hack the Apple TV to run Boxee, if you're keen.
From a local network media playback perspective, things were mostly positive with the Boxee Box. It quickly found our network shares and shared video, and grabbed synopses for the files it recognised. This included iTunes movies whose DRM the Boxee doesn't support, and there's no way to flag those files short of explicitly telling the Boxee not to index directories that contain them.
It's also possible to directly navigate shared directories, but that way misses out on the ability to browse by cover art. Long-term iTunes users are probably aware that it's not always the most accurate when it comes to picking covers and details, and this is a problem that plagues the Boxee as well. Various icons tell you whether the videos in the list come from a Web site, an app, or your own USB drive or PC, and everything appears in a tidy list.
One click on a title commences playback. Depending on the video source, the playback screen varies in appearance. Selecting a Daily Show episode might bring you to Comedy Central's Web site, for instance, to a page hosting the specific episode you want to watch. Selecting the full-screen option fills your television screen. If you select something from YouTube, however, you avoid the browser and the content immediately shows up—any trace of a Web site surrounding the video is gone. You can also define a search's filters: All the default , Favorites searches only content you've marked as a favorite , Genres, Channels, and Files searches only connected drives.
So, if you have a vast library of illegally downloaded content not that you do , the Boxee Box, unlike Apple TV or Google TV devices, can almost definitely play your files, thanks to its robust file support. For video, the box plays back up to p resolution and can handle Adobe Flash By checking a box on the user interface, the Boxee Box even adds files from a connected USB drive to the searches you perform in the search window.
The Google search works better and includes a wider breadth of content, like live TV, but both search options offer instant results as you type. The Boxee Box can also stream from your PC—you need only to set up a shared folder and then make sure both the Box and the computer are connected on the same network.
Your content will show up under the Files menu. Pandora has done a great job of making its app perform well on just about any platform, and the Boxee Box is no exception. You might ask: How does a box like Roku's XDS get a lower rating when it has essentially has everything the Boxee Box does, plus Netflix at a lower price? Simply put, Roku's interface is not nearly as user-friendly, it crashes quite often, and although the apps it offers are similar, that is basically all that Roku offers.
The XDS even requires an app a channel to play content off of a connected USB drive—and it doesn't come preloaded on the device. There's no crashing, and no need to download apps in order to play USB content—and it'll even integrate your media into your searches, along with Web content, something Roku can't do.
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