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I bought a Boxee over the Christmas holidays and have loved every minute of it. Over the years I've built tons of HTPC's (dating back to 1999) and have had to
by dualboot 16y ago
I bought a Boxee over the Christmas holidays and have loved every minute of it.
Over the years I've built tons of HTPC's (dating back to 1999) and have had to put up with all of the strengths and weaknesses related to the variety of solutions.
I've loved the array of options in regards to small boxes that make HTPC's mostly irrelevant.
The D-Link Boxee Box is the best overall solution I've used to date. Does it have some problems? Yep -- but they're never really in the way of me doing what I want to do with the device.
It has also had an excellent WAF.
I seriously recommend .. especially if you consume lots of divx/mkv/x264 media.
- jamesbkel 16y agoCurious if you used the Boxee interface on a homemade setup prior to getting the official device...? Mostly wondering if official package offers a tight enough experience to warrant the $200 vs. getting by on a spare laptop + Boxee.
- stublag 16y agoI used to run boxee from a macbookpro onto my main television in the living room. This worked surprisingly well alongside either the Apple remote or Boxee Controller App. Moving and re-hooking up my main computer to watch media was obviously tedious, so I ordered a Boxee Box at launch. The Boxee Box simplified the hell out of my media experience, which is definitely worth the $200 price tag. A laptop would probably work just fine, but the Box has the new 1.0 software, and the remote included is pretty great.
- kin 16y agoIn my experience the spare laptop + Boxee + Netflix experience has been awful and I instead just go the spare laptop + Netflix through the browser route. If the D-Link hardware Netflix experience is as responsive as the browser experience, I'm sold.
- dualboot 16y agoI ran it on an HTPC for about a month before I bought the Boxee Box.