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Curious 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
by jamesbkel 16y ago
Curious 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.