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I'm actually pretty excited about it, since the one thing I've been missing since cutting cable is the occasional live sporting event. And, my wife misses SNL and random mindless channel surfing, and this should restore a bit of that.
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Internet Explorer posted:No DVR and you won't get anything but unencrypted channels. Seems fairly useless. My thoughts exactly. Instead of wasting money on this they could have improved the box or tons of other things. Oh well. tgijsola posted:I'm actually pretty excited about it, since the one thing I've been missing since cutting cable is the occasional live sporting event. And, my wife misses SNL and random mindless channel surfing, and this should restore a bit of that. I thought virtually every tv has a tuner, whats the point of buying this when you can just buy a hd antenna which you need for the BB anyways.
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| # ? Nov 16, 2011 22:43 |
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kri kri posted:My thoughts exactly. Instead of wasting money on this they could have improved the box or tons of other things. Oh well. this is what I was trying to figure out... pretty sure I can get OTA HD w/ my tv w/out the need of an additional antenna. am I missing some functionality here? I'm so ready to cut cable though, need to do my homework on how reliable Century Link (Qwest) internet is in my area first though.
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| # ? Nov 16, 2011 23:14 |
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Yeah, that's all true. I am looking forward to having it integrated with the rest of the boxee UI. Oh, and getting a channel guide will be pretty sweet.
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| # ? Nov 16, 2011 23:35 |
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I definitely think it's the integration and not having to switch back and forth to be a major selling point. Also, if the channel guide is any good then using a real keyboard to search listing is a million times better than using the remote.
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They said they will consider adding DVR support
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| # ? Nov 17, 2011 03:48 |
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Who gives a poo poo, just fix the enormous glaring performance issues please
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| # ? Nov 19, 2011 05:31 |
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VERTiG0 posted:Who gives a poo poo, just fix the enormous glaring performance issues please This is my issue, they seem to just be adding poo poo without actually fixing a lot of whats wrong with the box.
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word to the performance gripes. the interface is fluid as gently caress on a fresh install, but the second you add a directory with any real weight to it everything gets chuggy as poo poo. I still havent been able to re-add my movie directory because its apparently too large and causes the box to crash every time I try to add it, yet my TV folder that is about 4x the size of it is fine.
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| # ? Nov 21, 2011 03:28 |
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How big are we talking? I've got a terabyte of videos sorted into TELEVISION and MOVIES, the only subdivisons are movie titles for movies and series titles/season for TV. The only problem I have is with the amount of time it takes to rescan the drive when I add new media.
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IM DAY DAY IRL posted:How big are we talking? This is why i made new folders for my tv. tv shows tv shows (ended) tv single episodes It works much better but the whole UI is still slow as poo poo
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IM DAY DAY IRL posted:How big are we talking? About 500GB movies 1.3TB tv shows. Tv dir works fine but movies doesnt - locks up the box when scanning
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Laserface posted:About 500GB movies 1.3TB tv shows. Tv dir works fine but movies doesnt - locks up the box when scanning You probably have a file it is choking on. I check to make sure you don't have any special characters in file names. Then I'd leave half in the folder and try again, repeating until you narrow down the cause.
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| # ? Nov 21, 2011 13:07 |
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Can somebody answer a few questions for me? Before I buy one of these  I want to watch NHL through a Boxee, but I'm in the UK. I have a PS3 but we don't get the app outside Canada and the US, and the browser doesn't do Flash so I can't use the website. Can I use Boxee to view live games with my account? Either through the app that you can get, or through the Boxee browser (which supports Flash plugin in full, doesn't it?)
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If you allowed to watch the games in the UK, then you should be ok. Boxee does support Flash. If there is a dedicated Boxee NHL app, it might be region locked. The only way around this I know of is to use a VPN - it has VPN support built in so if you use one with a US endpoint, all the US apps and programmes suddenly appear.
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1.2.3 should be out in The next few days.
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DaWolfey posted:If you allowed to watch the games in the UK, then you should be ok. Boxee does support Flash. Well I can watch from my PC with my account no problem from Europe. So it should work. The other alternative is to make an American PS3 account and then I can download the app, but I want a Boxee anyway I think.
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I've been looking into grabbing some sort of media device since my Xbox RROD'd a month or so ago, but I'm having a hard time deciding what would be best for me. Reading this thread, it seems a lot of people aren't very happy with Boxee at the moment, but at the same time, it looks like what I need. I'd like to have: -A simple, and fast interface. I'm seeing a lot of complaints about the UI being kinda sluggish, but it also seems to stem from an abundance of files being processed (which I don't think I have). -Good Netflix support -I have an external HDD full of movies/shows/pics/etc, including .mkv videos that never would run correctly through my Xbox. I like the list of apps for Boxee. The escapist, YouTube, Facebook, RSS feeds; are all things I would use pretty regularly. Should I take the plunge for Boxee in it's current state? Does anyone feel like it will be fixed (or improved) in the near future? If nothing else, would anyone recommend a device more suited for my needs?
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My box has started glowing red and orange randomly now, but it's connected to the internet and it isn't in recovery mode. Weird. Everything works fine though.
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Boxee is making me want to punch myself. Got my parents one after they saw mine. I have a NAS that it pulls all my stuff from. They wanted it to pull from a USB drive so I grabbed a 4TB Seagate GoFlex. Silly me for not figuring out first that Boxee doesn't support 4TB drives. Anyways, formatted it into two 2TB partitions and I had it working... threw a mkv file into each partition root and Boxee saw the drives and scanned the files into a proper TV show format. Start filling the drive up.. get the first partition full, second one about 700GB full and plug it back in... Boxee will not even recognize the drive. It took well over 24 hours to fill this thing up and I don't have 24 hours before they have to leave so formatting it is out of the question. Somehow I need to get it working without wiping anything.
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| # ? Nov 26, 2011 07:01 |
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Goddamn, there are 4TB drives now?
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widds2v posted:Boxee is making me want to punch myself. http://forums.boxee.tv/showthread.p...0924#post210924 Similar problem here. Long story short, no way to not reformat it from what it looks like.
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| # ? Nov 26, 2011 16:27 |
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Yeah I was up all night trying to figure something out... without reformatting and changing the sector size there was really no hope. They took it with them and are just going to grab 2x 2TB drives and copy everything over. I had to keep telling myself that Boxee Box != Boxee... it's D-Link. Further affirms my stance of never purchasing something from them because of their horrible support. They could release a firmware update today that fixes the ability to see 3TB+ drives over USB today but are holding it out for the 1.5 release early next year. Those drives are becoming more and more mainstream and there's going to be A LOT of people that have issues who are not savvy enough to realize that Boxee simply cannot handle hard drives that big right now and think something is broke.
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| # ? Nov 26, 2011 21:09 |
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I think the kind of person who is buying a 4TB external hard drive to hook up to a box that attaches to their TV would realize that if the drive doesn't work, the device probably doesn't support that size disk.
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| # ? Nov 28, 2011 16:34 |
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VERTiG0 posted:I think the kind of person who is buying a 4TB external hard drive to hook up to a box that attaches to their TV would realize that if the drive doesn't work, the device probably doesn't support that size disk. They're on the Shelf at Bestbuy, and have the biggest number. So my opinion is the opposite of yours.
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| # ? Nov 28, 2011 18:43 |
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Jesus, boxee box is pissing me off lately. It gets ultra sluggish after using it as a music player. Go through an album or two and it slows to a crawl forcing a hard reboot. Tried a factory reset awhile back but it never really fixed it. I was so close to tossing this junk off the balcony. I think I'm going to start piecing together an htpc.
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| # ? Nov 29, 2011 03:51 |
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has there been any talk of a new, upgraded, more powerful boxee box coming out? i love the simplicity of it along with the ui, remote control, and the new dongle for ota tv, but this thing completely chokes if you have tons (10+ tb) of local content for it to access.
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wolfbiker posted:has there been any talk of a new, upgraded, more powerful boxee box coming out? i love the simplicity of it along with the ui, remote control, and the new dongle for ota tv, but this thing completely chokes if you have tons (10+ tb) of local content for it to access. I've heard there is one coming out in the next couple of months but it will not be sold in the US. Boxee is growing on me and the Box isn't that bad of a device for the price, I'm just now seeing the issues with having a third party controlling the hardware. It's like Google releasing a new Android OS and fighting to get your Motorola phone updated because they have final control. The Boxee software is great, but D-Link owns the hardware and firmware updates go through them. There should be no reason they are on a multi-month release process for simple things that wouldn't break anything.
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Is weather broken for anyone else. I am in Denver, so not a small town by any means. I just have a little circle up in the top right where weather should be.
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deong posted:Is weather broken for anyone else. I am in Denver, so not a small town by any means. I just have a little circle up in the top right where weather should be. Yes it always gives me an error.
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Are youtube videos playing in slo-mo for anyone else? The audio's fine, but the video is broked.
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deong posted:Is weather broken for anyone else. I am in Denver, so not a small town by any means. I just have a little circle up in the top right where weather should be. The provider changed how the weather is downloaded apparently.
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wolfbiker posted:has there been any talk of a new, upgraded, more powerful boxee box coming out? i love the simplicity of it along with the ui, remote control, and the new dongle for ota tv, but this thing completely chokes if you have tons (10+ tb) of local content for it to access. Do you have more than 10 terabytes of content because goddamn
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| # ? Nov 30, 2011 00:28 |
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VERTiG0 posted:Do you have more than 10 terabytes of content because goddamn Yeah, I'm finding it hard to fault the Boxee when your trying to feed more data than a typical television network has in their digital archives into a 5x5 box.
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:Yeah, I'm finding it hard to fault the Boxee when your trying to feed more data than a typical television network has in their digital archives into a 5x5 box. Except XBMC would handle it without blinking on my little acer nettop.
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kri kri posted:Except XBMC would handle it without blinking on my little acer nettop. You are clearly not the market for this kind of device.
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| # ? Nov 30, 2011 09:43 |
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i have closer to 20tb, which i suppose is outside of the target market. and yes, xbmc handles it flawlessly. that being said, i'd switch to a boxee in a heartbeat if it could handle all my poo poo. 
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| # ? Nov 30, 2011 11:33 |
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VERTiG0 posted:You are clearly not the market for this kind of device. I have roughly 1.5 TB of content and I'm annoyed by the sluggish UI. I can only imagine it's much worse when you have 10-20 TB of content.
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| # ? Nov 30, 2011 22:51 |
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VERTiG0 posted:You are clearly not the market for this kind of device. I am pretty sure boxee needs all the market they can get. I am also pretty sure everyone's UI is sluggish, not just people with tons of files so.... Anyways I hope they can get it fixed.
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VERTiG0 posted:You are clearly not the market for this kind of device. Hahahaha this is the ultimate Boxee apologist post.
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