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Well I just ordered one from Amazon. Thanks to Amazon Prime for free, it is only $4 for next day shipping. Hopefully it is a great box, and doesn't have to be returned. I have NBA League Pass Broadband. Does anyone know if that will work on this?
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Does anyone with the box know if the Wireless N is 5ghz or 2.4ghz?
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Nov 11, 2010 07:04
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priznat posted:Was yours just stuck in with misc PC stuff too? I was honestly ready to give up when I saw this black box with a hint of green and went "HMM!" I love when you come across some hidden little thing when your browsing around a big box store. I was just in a Best Buy a month ago when I was walking along: "drat, they've got no copies of StarcrHELLLLOOOOOO, what's this!? The full series box set of Kids in The Hall.... right net the the full box set of Monty Python's Flying Circus?!? SQUEEEEEEE!!!!!"
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Nov 11, 2010 08:14
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I don't have prime and didn't feel like paying extra for shipping. Amazon says ETA is monday but I'm hoping it shows up friday. Or even Sat since its a USPS tracking (DC) number. I care about 20% about netflix, 5% about streaming, and 75% about NAS performance (since I have like 3.5TB on movies/TV on my NAS).
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Nov 11, 2010 08:53
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ilkhan posted:I don't have prime and didn't feel like paying extra for shipping. Amazon says ETA is monday but I'm hoping it shows up friday. Or even Sat since its a USPS tracking (DC) number. I care about 20% about netflix, 5% about streaming, and 75% about NAS performance (since I have like 3.5TB on movies/TV on my NAS). Netflix apparently won't be in immediately, but it is coming. NAS performance seems great. It takes a while to scan the whole library (and we have a fraction of what you do). And there's one annoying glitch where it mislabels TV shows as movies and just won't let me fix them, but I expect that to be fixed in 1.0. Otherwise I couldn't be happier so far - it's so nice to finally have a proper solution for watching stuff off the NAS.
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Nov 11, 2010 09:21
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LittleCat posted:Netflix apparently won't be in immediately, but it is coming. NAS performance seems great. It takes a while to scan the whole library (and we have a fraction of what you do). And there's one annoying glitch where it mislabels TV shows as movies and just won't let me fix them, but I expect that to be fixed in 1.0. Otherwise I couldn't be happier so far - it's so nice to finally have a proper solution for watching stuff off the NAS. This is totally my view of it after messing around with it for the past few hours, it's amazing for cataloging and presenting all my painstakingly gathered video from my NAS and the shows look fantastic on the TV. I'm curious, will it continue to identify shows if I hit the "logout" or does it put it into low power mode? I just left it on for now and turned off the tv instead. Anyone feel like adding other folks on the boxee friends? I'm "priznat" on there as well.
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Nov 11, 2010 09:45
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So I was going to ask if the Boxee Box has better music support than Boxee pre-1.0, and now I'm seeing that there's not even a music option on the home page 
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Nov 11, 2010 11:44
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does the boxee box support wake on lan and the ability to send a magic packet? i need a device that can send a magic packet to wake up my windows home server, ideally whenever the device is turned on. i don't want iphone apps or any other bullshit like that, just a streamer that can send a magic packet. thank you for any help.
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Nov 11, 2010 12:30
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I think I'll need to pick one of these up once Hulu support is added. Seems like this is the answer to my cheap-1080p-network-streaming-xbmc-replacement dreams  .
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Nov 11, 2010 13:26
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I'm thinking about getting some kind of set-top box. The Boxee Box looks nice, but I'm wondering what justifies it being twice as expensive as the Roku or Apple TV. Can someone summarize what the Boxee Box offers over either of those?
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Nov 11, 2010 15:34
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priznat posted:I guess it is hit or miss depending on the bestbuy, the one here had no such section but I think someone had mentioned earlier in the thread there was going to be a similar media section in a bestbuy they went to. Have you (or anyone else) been able to stress test this puppy yet? My ONLY concern with this box is that it'll choke on really heavy blu-ray rips/etc. If this sucker chugs along just fine, I'm in love. (I'm getting mine tomorrow!)
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Nov 11, 2010 15:46
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xX_WEED_GOKU_Xx posted:I'm thinking about getting some kind of set-top box. The Boxee Box looks nice, but I'm wondering what justifies it being twice as expensive as the Roku or Apple TV. Can someone summarize what the Boxee Box offers over either of those? It should play any online flash content is the big difference over other devices.
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Nov 11, 2010 15:52
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Don Lapre posted:It should play any online flash content is the big difference over other devices. My impression was that it's Achilles heel is that it doesn't have the Apple or Google app store support, if you care about that kind of stuff. The underlying philosophy of the device is to play anything you can throw at it. The social aspects and such are ancillary in my opinion. I want something I can plug into any TV and it'll play anything on my network in high quality without flaws. Watching stuff online is not much in my use-case so I can't speak much to it.
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Nov 11, 2010 15:55
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xX_WEED_GOKU_Xx posted:I'm thinking about getting some kind of set-top box. The Boxee Box looks nice, but I'm wondering what justifies it being twice as expensive as the Roku or Apple TV. Can someone summarize what the Boxee Box offers over either of those? Neither the AppleTV nor the Roku box play local content, they are strickly streaming boxes only. (actually, AppleTV can if it's iTunes format and in the iTunes library.) Actually, just read this. http://gizmodo.com/5649560/video-box-battle-royale-who-should-be-your-tvs-new-best-friend TraderStav posted:My impression was that it's Achilles heel is that it doesn't have the Apple or Google app store support, if you care about that kind of stuff. Apple TV doesn't have an app store.
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Nov 11, 2010 17:17
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Is anyone successfully running the new Boxee on an old AppleTV? I gave up a year or so ago and moved to XBMC, but would like to give it a shot again if it's useable.
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Nov 11, 2010 17:43
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BorderPatrol posted:Actually, just read this. http://gizmodo.com/5649560/video-box-battle-royale-who-should-be-your-tvs-new-best-friend That list is old and a lot of things on the Boxee Box section is wrong. And it also references the old Apple TV, not the new one.
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Nov 11, 2010 18:13
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LittleCat posted:Netflix apparently won't be in immediately, but it is coming. NAS performance seems great. It takes a while to scan the whole library (and we have a fraction of what you do). And there's one annoying glitch where it mislabels TV shows as movies and just won't let me fix them, but I expect that to be fixed in 1.0. Otherwise I couldn't be happier so far - it's so nice to finally have a proper solution for watching stuff off the NAS. Although I'm gonna have to rename human readable names to boxee approved dots and poo poo. "Name of Show - 00x00 - episode.mkv" apparently isn't gonna get correctly parsed by boxee. Same for movies. FML
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Nov 11, 2010 18:24
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BorderPatrol posted:Neither the AppleTV nor the Roku box play local content, they are strickly streaming boxes only. (actually, AppleTV can if it's iTunes format and in the iTunes library.) Yet!
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Nov 11, 2010 18:33
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DudeDeuce posted:That list is old and a lot of things on the Boxee Box section is wrong. And it also references the old Apple TV, not the new one. It's about a month and a half old and it does indeed reference the new Apple TV. There's a picture of it right at the beginning of the article. I'm sure the listing for Boxee do not reference any of the 1.0 features or anything announced yesterday.
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Nov 11, 2010 19:04
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ilkhan posted:Perfect. That's exactly the naming convention I use with the current boxee beta and will be using with the box whenever Amazon decides to ship my poo poo. (Preordered two months ago, It would be nice for them to ship it on release day.) It works fine. I'd recommend throwing the year in the title for certain stuff like Doctor Who otherwise you might have issues.
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Nov 11, 2010 19:24
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BorderPatrol posted:It's about a month and a half old and it does indeed reference the new Apple TV. There's a picture of it right at the beginning of the article. I don't know, a lot of the Boxee features that were there before today don't seem to be listed. You can definitely rent movies and, I believe, tv shows through apps, which it -does- have. It also has iPhone integration (boxee remote). And it supports USB storage, while it only lists SD. A bunch more codecs. It also doesn't currently have Netflix or Hulu support, but I guess it will so that's quibbling. To the original point, though - if you want a box that can play your own local or networked files, boxee is a good choice. If you want a pure streaming box, it's probably not ideal.
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Nov 11, 2010 19:32
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LittleCat posted:To the original point, though - if you want a box that can play your own local or networked files, boxee is a good choice. If you want a pure streaming box, it's probably not ideal. I'm really curious to hear Boxee Box vs Revo w/ XBMC for playing local content. The extra online content is bonus, but if I wanted to buy my parents a box that can play a lot of local content from a directly-attached 1TB USB drive, what is my best option? The Boxee Box appeals to me because of the price and the remote but I worry that the software is too buggy for regular use. Looking forward to reading everyone's thoughts after they spend more time with it.
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Nov 11, 2010 20:11
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Chaucer posted:if I wanted to buy my parents a box that can play a lot of local content from a directly-attached 1TB USB drive, what is my best option? You want a WDTV.
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Nov 11, 2010 20:20
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Chaucer posted:I'm really curious to hear Boxee Box vs Revo w/ XBMC for playing local content. The extra online content is bonus, but if I wanted to buy my parents a box that can play a lot of local content from a directly-attached 1TB USB drive, what is my best option? The Boxee Box appeals to me because of the price and the remote but I worry that the software is too buggy for regular use. Looking forward to reading everyone's thoughts after they spend more time with it. Well, Boxee works well for local content. I've encountered exactly one bug: If TV series aren't named correctly (Series.s#e#.extras.filetype), they occasionally get mislabelled as movies. If that happens, you can't fix them without renaming the files manually (And yes, that's still a problem in 1.0, which is unfortunate). Otherwise it seems extremely slick and user friendly so far. Don't know if it's the *best* option, though.
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Nov 11, 2010 20:26
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ThinkFear posted:That's exactly the naming convention I use with the current boxee beta and will be using with the box whenever Amazon decides to ship my poo poo. (Preordered two months ago, It would be nice for them to ship it on release day.) It works fine. I'd recommend throwing the year in the title for certain stuff like Doctor Who otherwise you might have issues. I was going off of this page.
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Nov 11, 2010 21:46
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iFitit has the teardown already http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Boxee-Box-Teardown/4109/1 FCKGW fucked around with this message at 22:05 on Nov 11, 2010 |
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Nov 11, 2010 21:57
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I'm not a big fan of 1.0, they have removed a couple features I wanted. There is no longer a mark as watched/mark as unwatched option, and watching any video even for a few seconds marks it as watched. There is no longer an option to continuously index an external drive, only scan never, scan once, and scan daily. Clicking on movies/tv shows now takes you to the "popular' section by default, which seems to give you content that is popular on all their media affiliates. If you want your own content, you need to navigate to tv shows->files, and even then you might see random episodes available on other sources (my two seasons of Fringe include one random S3E5 available on CTV). Since the sidebar is gone, the only search box now comes up on the guide, and if you search for a tv show it will find you everything it can from all it's content providers (a process that can be pretty slow) before it just shows you your file. The queue has been replaced with a favorites system, I don't know how well that works yet but it seems pretty simple and easy to use on the plus side. I'm really just frustrated about the things they have removed (continuous scanning, mark as watched) because I don't understand why they got rid of them. I can live with all the content integration, though I wish they made it easier to get to the files I actually want. Nall fucked around with this message at 22:51 on Nov 11, 2010 |
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Nov 11, 2010 22:17
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BorderPatrol posted:Does anyone with the box know if the Wireless N is 5ghz or 2.4ghz? Can't get it to use my 5ghz channel, and I read while trying to figure out why that it doesn't support it. Kind of pissed. Otherwise, it is a nice change from using PS3 Media Server and my PS3 to do all of my streaming.
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Nov 11, 2010 22:37
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Please keep the reviews coming. Anxiously awaiting whether or not this is a buy / no-buy. Need some sort of HTPC as the 360 isn't cutting it these days.
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Nov 12, 2010 00:28
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This thing does not want to show my drives from my USB hub connected to my Airport Extreme. You click Network -> Airport Extreme -> and then its just blank. The Youtube app sucks rear end. I have to turn off the subtitles for every movie I play, there's no universal setting to shut them off. I'm having buyer's remorse.
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Nov 12, 2010 00:52
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There is absolutely 0 reason to get Boxee when XBMC exists and is far better in every field except applications. Seems that Boxee 1.0 will be released as software eventually, meaning if you really do want those applications you can get it and run it on your custom-made HTPC.
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Nov 12, 2010 01:01
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Anal Volcano posted:There is absolutely 0 reason to get Boxee when XBMC exists and is far better in every field except applications. Seems that Boxee 1.0 will be released as software eventually, meaning if you really do want those applications you can get it and run it on your custom-made HTPC. There's definitely one reason - building a custom made HTPC is a bit more complicated than going to Best Buy and picking up a box that's all ready to go. I'm not computer retarded (I built my desktop system, so that's gotta be something), but trying to figure out which processor I'd need and how to make a fanless system and poo poo got overwhelming fast... and most of the stuff it seemed like I'd need was from the US, and shipping is a bitch. This was quick, easy, relatively cheap, and plays HD video without a hitch. Works for me.
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Nov 12, 2010 01:18
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DudeDeuce posted:This thing does not want to show my drives from my USB hub connected to my Airport Extreme. You click Network -> Airport Extreme -> and then its just blank. Do you normally have issues with your USB hub connected drives? If you can see them on your mac/pc then all you need to do to connect them to boxee is enter the address manually in sources including the drive path. For me it was smb://10.0.1.1/STORAGE with the username and password for the drive. Boxee seems to have issues opening the airport extreme itself to see all the drives inside it, connecting directly to the drive fixed that problem for me and it's been smooth sailing since then (it took a long time to index the drive so be ready for that).
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Nov 12, 2010 01:20
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Nall posted:Do you normally have issues with your USB hub connected drives? If you can see them on your mac/pc then all you need to do to connect them to boxee is enter the address manually in sources including the drive path. For me it was smb://10.0.1.1/STORAGE with the username and password for the drive. I don't even see a way to manually add a drive with Boxee 1.0. Where is that option?
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Nov 12, 2010 01:26
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Anal Volcano posted:There is absolutely 0 reason to get Boxee when XBMC exists and is far better in every field except applications. Seems that Boxee 1.0 will be released as software eventually, meaning if you really do want those applications you can get it and run it on your custom-made HTPC. Except a Boxee is $200. I think it would be difficult to build a custom-made HTPC for that price. As to the XBMC comment, I have it installed and have been tinkering with it. How do I get Netflix to work? Oh wait, that's right, you can't.
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Nov 12, 2010 01:31
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DudeDeuce posted:I don't even see a way to manually add a drive with Boxee 1.0. Where is that option? settings > file sources > add sources scroll to the bottom (if you have a long list) to "manually enter IP / Name..." It's worth noting (if this matters to you) that the boxee box runs a SMB share server as well, and if you set up the box to go into power saving mode after like 15 minutes of inactivity, it virtually shuts off but keeps the SMB active. So you could plug the drive directly into it as well and still use it as a network share. OPTIONS.
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Nov 12, 2010 01:34
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Nall posted:settings > file sources > add sources Ok thanks for the location. Unfortunately, I keep getting connection timed out when adding a drive. I just don't understand this. My wd tv live found my drives with no problem.
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Nov 12, 2010 01:45
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jmoney posted:You want a WDTV. Doesn't it have a terrible laggy interface?
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Nov 12, 2010 01:55
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Been playing stuff on my Boxee Box all day and nothing has so much of a hiccup yet. I have noticed the filename naming issue so I'll have to muck about with some renaming scripts I have to do batch renames. Make sure you turn off the lock in the setup menu preventing adult content to get the full list of the online apps btw   Can't wait for Netflix to arrive. No Vudu in Canada I guess?
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DudeDeuce posted:Ok thanks for the location. Unfortunately, I keep getting connection timed out when adding a drive. I just don't understand this. My wd tv live found my drives with no problem. Are you certain you are connecting to the drive directly and not just the Airport itself? Also double check your username and password. To test mine, I connected through finder go->connect to server on my macbook. If you can directly connect to the drive here then you should be able to do it in boxee without an issue. If not, then you are doing something wrong somewhere. Sorry I can't be more help, these are all the steps I took to get it working and it works fine for me now
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